The emergence of mobile money and other new forms of payment has changed the sovereign foundations of money. Starting as a Department for International Development funded project in Kenya, mobile money has now spread to many developing countries. This book looks at the regulator…
Financial collapses--whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market--are often explained as the inevitable results of market cycles: What goes up must come down. In Liquidated, Karen Ho punctures the aura of the abstract, all-powerfu…
About 2.5 billion adults, just over half the world’s adult population, lack bank accounts. If we are to realize the goal of extending banking and other financial services to this vast “unbanked” population, we need to consider not only such product innovations as microfinance a…
This book explains the nuts and bolts of affordable housing development. Divided into two complementary sections, the book first provides an overview of the effectiveness of existing federal and state housing programs in the United States, such as the LIHTC and TIF programs. In …
Central banks are powerful but poorly understood organisations. In 1900 the Bank of Japan was the only central bank to exist outside Europe but over the past century central banking has proliferated. John Singleton here explains how central banks and the profession of central ba…
This is a book about Germans and Jews, about power and money. It is a book focused on Bismarck and Bleichröder, Junker and Jew, statesman and banker, collaborators for over thirty years. The setting is that of a Germany where two worlds clashed: the new world of capitalism and a…
Louis Brandeis, war Anfang des Jahrhunderts einer der angesehensten Verfassungsrichter Amerikas. Er war der Erste, der die Macht der Banken anprangerte und ihnen eine einzigartige Stellung im weltweiten Wirtschaftsgefüge zuordnete. Die Theorie der sogenannten Finanzoligarchie so…
Louis Brandeis, war Anfang des Jahrhunderts einer der angesehensten Verfassungsrichter Amerikas. Er war der Erste, der die Macht der Banken anprangerte und ihnen eine einzigartige Stellung im weltweiten Wirtschaftsgefüge zuordnete. Die Theorie der sogenannten Finanzoligarchie so…
What is money? Where does it come from? Who makes our money today? And how can we understand the current state of our economy as a crisis of money itself? In Making Money, Ole Bjerg turns these questions into a matter of philosophical rather than economic analysis. Using the thi…
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the financial systems of major industrialized countries using the statistical framework of the financial accounts. After a discussion of how economists agreed to create a framework to monitor the financial linkages between surplus and…
This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory, history and practice of investment banking and will be a useful supplementary text on MBA courses and graduate level courses in corporate finance, financial management, and advanced finance.
The changing dynamics of business worldwide have led organizations to look beyond traditional managerial practices while at the same time attempting to retain their core competitive advantages. This development has called upon academicians and practitioners alike to reassess the…
by Zweifel, Peter, Eisen, Roland
fromSpringer Texts in Business and Economics
Insurance Economics brings together the economic analysis of decision making under risk, risk management and demand for insurance by individuals and corporations, objectives pursued and management tools used by insurance companies, the regulation of insurance, and the division o…
