A comparison of British and US financial history post Bretton Woods, showing how financial developments have shaped contemporary society and politics...
Asia’s demand for second-generation financial institutions and markets needs to be met in order for the region’s further development to be sustained. This book provides a compelling, fact-based assessment of current practices and regulations in Asia’s financial institutions and markets and carefully..
The central theme of this study, first published in 1998, is that parametric change has expanded the autonomy of non-state actors, and has reduced the capability of governments to extract involuntary resources from their constituents. This change has profound consequences for world politics...
Originally published in 1972. This book covers the broader aspects of foreign exchange and gives an insight into the workings of the international currency markets...
Originally published in 1926. This book explains clearly the transfer of money abroad, bank credits, the various methods in which documentary bills are dealt with and foreign currencies exchanged...
The efficient market hypothesis (EMH) maintains that all relevant information is fully and immediately reflected in a stock price and that an investor will obtain an equilibrium rate of return. This has far reaching implications in terms of capital allocation, stock price predictability, as well as ..
This new textbook provides an up-to-date overview of international banking as the second decade of the twenty-first century unfolds. Integrating geo-economic, operational, institutional and regulatory changes in the financial sector, the volume’s methodology incorporates specific case studies and re..
This book, first published in 1973, presents a collection of original contributions to the analysis of international trade and monetary relations by a number of distinguished economists...
A collection of essays on contemporary international trade, this book critiques the major theoretical components; including the Ricardian principle of comparative advantage and the recently developed normative analysis of international transfers...