Banks & Banking

The principal role played by the financial system in any country is to provide the infrastructure to allow surplus resources to be allocated to those individuals and companies with deficits. The positive impact of a functioning financial system upon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464804625Author Thyra A. RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint World Bank PublicationsPublisher World Bank Publications

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Developing country governments and the development aid community are acutely aware of the need to find more effective ways to improve basic living conditions for the poor, as traditional approaches of delivering public support have not always led to the...

Utilizing standardized indicators from 2001 to 2008, 'Getting Finance in South Asia 2010' analyzes the financial performance and soundness of commercial banks in eight South Asian countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal,...

In recent years, the delivery of financial services has changed consistent with technological advances that have occurred. On-line banking, on-line trading and brokerage services, and capital markets are available and utilized in varying degrees in the...

This book fills a large gap in the literature on trade in services. It focuses on the dynamics of trade and investment liberalisation in a sector of considerable technical and regulatory complexity - financial services. This volume chronicles the recent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088105771Author Anthony Of BostonFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 417g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780921689775Author R. T. NaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 166Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books

For more than a century the Houston area has grown steadily and at times spectacularly. The lifeblood of the region's development has been the flow of credit; its heart, the banks that have pumped investment dollars through the economy, and particularly...

This book focuses on borrower default. A probit model is used to estimate the probability of default/rescheduling. In most studies of country risk, political factors are omitted due to data inadequacies and difficulties involved in quantifying a number...

The timeliness of this book is beyond question. Since the crisis erupted in Thailand in mid-1997 and spread, with varying degrees of severity, to the rest of Asia, the export-led industrialization strategy that has driven economic growth in East and...

It is a well-known fact that conventional commercial banks provide financial intermediation services on the basis of interest rates on assets and liabilities. However, since interest is prohibited in Islam, Islamic banks have developed several other...

Commenting on the quality of the contributors when opening the conference on which these books are based, the former Governor of the Bank of England, Sir Edward George, said "I cannot remember ever before having had such a galaxy of academic economist...

The Handbook of International Banking provides a clearly accessible source of reference material, covering the main developments that reveal how the internationalization and globalization of banking have developed over recent decades to the present, and...

This is a book in search of an alternative to the discredited investor-owned banks that have brought the rich countries into crisis and the world economy into a long period of austerity. It finds customer-owned banks - credit unions, co-operative banks,...

The relatively new sukuk (or Islamic debt securities) markets have grown to more than US $800 billion over the past decade, and continue to grow at a rate of around 20-30 per cent per year. Arguably the first of its kind, this path-breaking book provides...

This book integrates new political and economic elements into the analysis of monetary policy credibility and central bank independence. The author considers imperfect monetary control, rational voters, distributional issues and uncertainty about future...

Does Financial Deregulation Work? studies the process of financial deregulation in the United States. It exposes the basic flaws in the deregulationist approach and advances a new framework for effective financial regulation. Bruce Coggins provides a...

Monetarism is dead! Central bankers are all Wicksellians now! They target low inflation rates, with no regard to monetary aggregates whatsoever, by acting upon short-term real rates of interest. This is the New Consensus in monetary economics, or simply...

The German state banks - or Landesbanks - are not only some of the largest banks in Germany but are also a dominant force in the international banking sector. These state-owned banks enjoy special privileges and government support which have made them...

Financial reform has been a major concern for China's transitional economy - especially in the realms of banking and insurance - since accession to the WTO in 2001. This book scrutinizes the development and limitations of these industries during the...

Banking in Transition Economies is a modern analysis of banking in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe and includes a detailed examination of banking in the first five years of transition as well as policy recommendations for banking...

The advances of technology and business have made the world and its nations increasingly interconnected and interdependent in an era of globalisation. In such an environment, the events in one country can and will have a definitive influence on the...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is the institution designed to support global trade and economic growth by helping to maintain stability in the international financial system. Originally created to finance short-term balance of payments deficits...

Money and Banking provides an original and comprehensive interpretation of the debate on banking and the nature of money in Keynes's time from a post Keynesian point of view. The book traces the pre-history of monetary circuit theory and its challenge to...

'State-Owned Banks in the Transition: Origins, Evolution, and Policy Responses' reviews the experience with state banking over the last decade in the transition economies of Europe and Central Asia. State ownership of banking systems has undermined...

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In February 1995, the unthinkable happened: one of the oldest and most respected merchant banks in London went bankrupt. The story that "rogue" Barings trader Nick Leeson lost hundreds of millions of pounds speculating in the Far East was front-page news...

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The banking royal commission has put the financial sector on trial and exposed its self-interest, corruption and excess. The People vs The Banks reveals what happens when businesses put profit before punters, reward bad behaviour and assume they are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307473455Author George CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 222g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692630495Author Randy VeillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Parker House PublishingPublisher Parker House PublishingWeight(grams) 154g

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