Banking, Money and International Finance
A Comparative History of Bank Failures: From Medici to Barings
1st Edition
By Sten Jonsson
December 18, 2020
Starting with Medici and Fugger and ending with Barings and Royal Bank of Scotland under neo-liberal de-regulation, the author gives an account of how a number of banks failed over a 500 year-period. The author offers an explanation of the leading ideas about the world and good society at the time,...
Equity Home Bias in International Finance: A Place-Attachment Perspective
1st Edition
By Kavous Ardalan
December 18, 2020
This book provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of research outcomes on the equity home bias puzzle – that people overinvest in domestic stocks relative to the theoretically optimal investment portfolio. It introduces place attachment – the bonding that occurs between individuals and their...
Expert Systems in Finance: Smart Financial Applications in Big Data Environments
1st Edition
Edited
By Noura Metawa, Mohamed Elhoseny, Aboul Ella Hassanien, M. Kabir Hassan
December 18, 2020
Throughout the industry, financial institutions seek to eliminate cumbersome authentication methods, such as PINs, passwords, and security questions, as these antiquated tactics prove increasingly weak. Thus, many organizations now aim to implement emerging technologies in an effort to validate ...
French Banking and Entrepreneurialism in China and Hong Kong: From the 1850s to 1980s
1st Edition
By Hubert Bonin
December 18, 2020
Many books have addressed the economic and financial history of Hong Kong, and the imperialist conflicts in the key Chinese port-cities but very few books have explored French initiatives and performance in this area, beyond diplomacy, geopolitics or cultural issues. In this book, Hubert Bonin ...
Frontier Capital Markets and Investment Banking: Principles and Practice from Nigeria
1st Edition
By Temitope W. Oshikoya, Kehinde Durosinmi-Etti
December 18, 2020
This book discusses the role of capital markets and investment banking in Nigeria, the largest frontier market economy in the world by both population size and gross domestic product.Offering a systematic framework combining conceptual principles with real practice, the book enables the reader to ...
Asian Imperial Banking History
1st Edition
By Hubert Bonin
September 30, 2020
When European powers annexed parts of Asia, banking systems were an important part of that process. The essays in this edited collection are based on original research using primary sources in English, French, Russian, Chinese and Japanese. The book as a whole provides new insights into banking in ...
Financial Innovation, Regulation and Crises in History
1st Edition
By Harold James
September 30, 2020
With contributions from world-renowned figures such as Niall Ferguson and Adair Turner, this volume investigates how financial institutions and markets have undergone or reacted to past pressures, and the regulatory responses that emerged as a result....
Price and Financial Stability: Rethinking Financial Markets
1st Edition
By David Harrison
August 14, 2020
Why are financial prices so much more crisis-prone and unstable than real economy prices? Because they are doing different things. Unlike real economy prices, rooted in the real goods and services produced and exchanged, financial prices attempt to value future income flows from financial and ...
Financing California Real Estate: Spanish Missions to subprime mortgages
1st Edition
By Lynne P. Doti
June 30, 2020
California was at the epicentre of the collapse of the real estate market in 2008, which had a devastating effect on the world economy. Taking this diverse and powerful state as a case study, this book presents a financial history of the property business, from the time Spanish Missions were ...
Austrian Economics, Money and Finance
1st Edition
By Thomas Mayer
December 12, 2019
The financial crisis has exposed severe shortcomings in mainstream monetary economics and modern finance. It is surprising that these shortcomings have not led to a wider debate about the need to overhaul these theories. Instead, mainstream economists have closed ranks to defend existing theories ...
Growth Without Inequality: Reinventing Capitalism
1st Edition
By Henry K. H. Woo
December 12, 2019
Many years on after the 2007–8 financial crisis, most developed nations still find themselves in a state of weak recovery, high debt pile-up and distributive disparity. The intriguing question that we face is whether the golden days of modern capitalism are over, or if capitalism is just undergoing...
History of Financial Institutions: Essays on the history of European finance, 1800–1950
1st Edition
Edited
By Carmen Hofmann, Martin L. Müller
July 24, 2018
Globalization is not an external force but a result of concrete business decisions made by millions of entrepreneurs and managers across the world. As such, the modern corporation has completely altered the economic landscape; business and finance have shaped the international order of the modern ...