Publication date: 1987-08
Dewey code: 332.4973
Price: $35.00
Review The American Monetary System: A Concise Survey of Its Evolution Since 1896 / Lexington Books:
Publication date: 1995-02
Dewey code: 332.1
Price: $22.00
Review Payment Systems: Principles, Practice, and Improvements (World Bank Technical Paper) / World Bank:
Publication date: 1981-01
Review Money and Banking: Analysis and Policy in the Nigerian Context / Allen & Unwin Australia:
Publication date: 1987-06-30
Review Proposals to Deregulate Depository Institutions (Legislative Analysis) / AEI Press,US:
Publication date: 1972
Review Thoughts on the proposed change of currency (Scottish reprints) / Barnes & Noble Books:
Creator: David J. S. King
Publication date: 1991-06-28
Price: $150.00
Review The History of the HongKong and Shanghai Banking Corporation: Volume 4, The Hongkong Bank in the Period of Development and Nationalism, 1941-1984: From ... Group (History of Hong Kong and Shanghai) / Cambridge University Press:This final volume of the history of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation provides a full-scale study of a modern financial institution in the context of its historical role in the East. The author discusses the Bank's return to the East in 1945, the ending of the compradoric system, the Bank's varying relationship with the People's Republic of China, and its role in the financing of Hong Kong's industrialization. He then presents an analysis of the Bank's adjustment to a new world of international banking. The dramatic stories of key acquisitions - Mercantile Bank of India, The British Bank of the Middle East, Hang Seng Bank, and Marine Midland Banks of New York - are recounted on the basis of both documentary evidence and interviews with the principal participants. A central theme is the radical structural change necessary as the Hongkong Bank sought successfully to become first an interregional bank and, subsequently, both an operating bank and a multinational financial holding company. Granted full access to the Bank's most recent archives, the author considers the problems of product diversification, the management of consequent subsidiary companies, changes in recruitment strategy and staff policy, and the impact of technical change. While fully utilising the Bank's own records, the author has also considered materials from national archives, newly discovered private collections, and oral histories gathered world-wide. With the publication of this four-volume history a serious void in our knowledge of Far Eastern economic history has now been filled.
Creator: United States
Publication date: 1992-01
Price: $3.00
Review U.S. Banks and International Telecommunications (Background Paper) / U.S. Government Printing Office:
Authors
- Nirmaljit Paul
- Jonathan Hay
Dewey code: 346.082
Price: $13.95
Review Regulation and Taxation of Commercial Banks During the International Debt Crisis (World Bank Technical Paper) / World Bank Publications:
Publication date: 2001
Review Post crisis Asia: The way forward (The William Taylor memorial lectures) / Group of Thirty:
Publication date: 1993-04-29
Dewey code: 332.150941
Price: $75.00
Review British Multinational Banking 1830-1990 / Oxford University Press, USA:This is a study of the emergence, growth, and performance of British multinational banks from their origins in the 1830s until the present day. British-owned banks played leading roles in the financial systems of much of Asia and the southern hemisphere during the nineteenth century and after. In the 1970s and 1980s they made large investments in California and elsewhere in the United States. They played major roles in the finance of international trade, in international diplomacy, in the birth of the Eurodollar market, and in the world debt crisis. This is the first modern general history of these banks. It is based on a wide range of confidential banking archives in Britain, Australia, and Hong Kong, most of which were previously unavailable. Geoffrey Jones reveals, for the first time, details of the real profits and secret reserves of these banks, and uses these data in a unique analysis of their financial performance over more than a century. Jones places this new empirical evidence in the context of modern theories of multinational enterprise and of competitive advantage. This is a lucidly written and fascinating study, which will be of importance not only to historians, but to anyone concerned with contemporary multinational banking.
Authors
- Michael S. Borish
- Michel Noel
- Millard Long
Dewey code: 332.10947
Price: $22.00
Review Restructing Banks and Enterprises: Recent Lessons from Transition Countries (World Bank Discussion Paper) / World Bank:
Creator: Donald H., Jr. Chew
Publication date: 2008-01
Price: $286.25
Review Corporate Risk Management / Columbia University Press:More than 30 leading scholars and finance practitioners discuss the theory and practice of using enterprise-risk management (ERM) to increase corporate values. ERM is the corporate-wide effort to manage the right-hand side of the balance sheet& mdash;a firm's total liability structure-in ways that enable management to make the most of the firm's assets. While typically working to stabilize cash flows, the primary aim of a well-designed risk management program is not to smooth corporate earnings, but to limit the possibility that surprise outcomes can threaten a company's ability to fund its major investments and carry out its strategic plan. Contributors summarize the development and use of risk management products and their practical applications. Case studies involve Merck, British Petroleum, the American airline industry, and United Grain Growers, and the conclusion addresses a variety of topics that include the pricing and use of certain derivative securities, hybrid debt, and catastrophe bonds. Contributors: Tom Aabo (Aarhus School of Business); Albéric Braas and Charles N. Bralver (Oliver, Wyman & Company); Keith C. Brown (University of Texas at Austin); David A. Carter (Oklahoma State University); Christopher L. Culp (University of Chicago); Neil A. [+]Doherty (University of Pennsylvania); John R. S. Fraser (Hyrdo One, Inc. ); Kenneth R. French (University of Chicago); Gerald D. Gay (Georgia State University); Jeremy Gold (Jeremy Gold Pensions); Scott E. Harrington (University of South Carolina); J. B. Heaton (Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP); Joel Houston (University of Florida); Nick Hudson (Stern Stewart & Co. ); Christopher James (University of Florida); A. John Kearney and Judy C. Lewent (Merck & Co. , Inc. ); Robert C. Merton and Lisa K. Meulbroek (Harvard Business School); Merton H. Miller (University of Chicago); Jouahn Nam (Pace University); Andrea M. P. Neves (CP Risk Management LLC); Brian W. Nocco (Nationwide Insurance); André F. Perold (Harvard Business School); S. Waite Rawls III (Continental Bank); Kenneth J. Risko (Willis Risk Solutions); Angelika Schöchlin (University of St. Gallen); Betty J. Simkins (Oklahoma State University); Donald J. Smith (Boston University); Clifford W. Smith Jr. (University of Rochester); Charles W. Smithson (Continental Bank); René M. Stulz (Ohio State University); D. SAll the articles that comprise this book were first published in the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. Morgan Stanley's ownership of the journal is a reflection of its commitment to identifying outstanding academic research and promoting its application in the practicing corporate and investment communities.
Authors
- Augustine Fritz Gockel
- Martin Brownbridge
- Charles Harvey
Dewey code: 332.10967
Review Banking in Africa: The Impact of Financial Sector Reform Since Independence / James Currey:Providing a review of the evolution of the post-independence banking system in Africa, this text has a strong focus on the problems of restructuring of banking institutions and the management of the bad and non-performing assets of public sector institutions.
Creator: Jack Revell
Publication date: 1997-05-12
Dewey code: 332.1094
Review The Recent Evolution of Financial Systems / Palgrave Macmillan:
Publication date: 1999-06
Price: $5.00
Review Enemy of None but a Common Friend of All?: An International Perspective on the Lender-Of-Last-Resort Function (Essays in International Economics) / Princeton University Press:
Authors
- Jean Tirole
- Mathias Dewatripont
Dewey code: 332.10973
Price: $50.00
Review The Prudential Regulation of Banks / The MIT Press:The Prudential Regulation of Banks applies modern economic theory to prudential regulation of financial intermediaries. Dewatripont and Tirole tackle the key problem of providing the right incentives to management in banks by looking at how external intervention by claimholders (holders of equity or debt) affects managerial incentives and how that intervention might ideally be implemented. Their primary focus is the regulation of commercial banks and S&Ls, but many of the implications of their theory are also valid for other intermediaries such as insurance companies, pension funds, and securities funds. Observing that the main concern of the regulation of intermediaries is solvency (the relation between equity, debt, and asset riskiness), the authors provide institutional background and develop a case for regulation as performing the monitoring functions (screening, auditing, convenant writing, and intervention) that dispersed depositors are unable or unwilling to perform. They also illustrate the dangers of regulatory failure in a summary of the S&L crisis of the 1980s. Following a survey of banking theory, Dewatripont and Tirole develop their model of the capital structure of banks and show how optimal regulation can be achieved using capital adequacy requirements and external intervention when banks are violated. They explain how regulation can be designed to minimize risks of accounting manipulations and to insulate bank managers from macroeconomic shocks, which are beyond their control. Finally, they provide a detailed evaluation of the existing regulation and of potential alternatives, such as rating agencies, private deposit insurance, and large private depositors. They show that these reforms are, at best, a complement, rather than a substitute, to the existing regulation which combines capital ratios with external intervention in case of insolvency. The Prudential Regulation of Banks is part of the Walras Pareto Lectures, from the Universiy of Lausanne.
Creator: Edward P.M. Gardener
Publication date: 1986-02-20
Review United Kingdom Banking Supervision (Studies in Financial Institutions & Markets) / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Publication date: 1992
Dewey code: 332.1095
Price: $49.95
Review Informal Finance: Some Findings from Asia / An Asian Development Bank Book:In most Asian countries, there exists a dynamic informal financial sector working side by side with formal finance, which has not until now been researched carefully. Informal Finance is based on a research project that examined informal finance in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand. The issues encountered in studying each country are discussed, as are regional diversity within countries and the differences between rural and urban areas. Rather than simply summarizing the five country studies on which it is based, Informal Finance presents a synthesis based on a common framework that permits cross-country comparisons.
Authors
- Richard Herring
- Susan M. Wachter
Price: $20.00
Review Real Estate Booms and Banking Busts: An International Perspective (Occasional Papers) / Group of Thirty:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1988-07-21
Dewey code: 332.10917671
Price: $17.95
Review Profit and Loss Sharing: An Islamic Experiment in Finance and Banking / Oxford University Press, USA:This study examines the origin of, and the institutional and ethical issues underlying, the Islamic banking movement and its adoption of various financial instruments. Using Pakistan as a case study, the book analyzes the economic viability of financial reform and proposes the extension of profit and loss sharing as an alternative and just tenure system.
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The American Monetary System: A Concise Survey of Its Evolution Since 1896, Payment Systems: Principles, Practice, and Improvements (World Bank Technical Paper), Money and Banking: Analysis and Policy in the Nigerian Context, Proposals to Deregulate Depository Institutions (Legislative Analysis), Thoughts on the proposed change of currency (Scottish reprints), The History of the HongKong and Shanghai Banking Corporation: Volume 4, The Hongkong Bank in the Period of Development and Nationalism, 1941-1984: From ... Group (History of Hong Kong and Shanghai), U.S. Banks and International Telecommunications (Background Paper), Regulation and Taxation of Commercial Banks During the International Debt Crisis (World Bank Technical Paper), Post crisis Asia: The way forward (The William Taylor memorial lectures), British Multinational Banking 1830-1990, Restructing Banks and Enterprises: Recent Lessons from Transition Countries (World Bank Discussion Paper), Corporate Risk Management, Banking in Africa: The Impact of Financial Sector Reform Since Independence, The Recent Evolution of Financial Systems, Enemy of None but a Common Friend of All?: An International Perspective on the Lender-Of-Last-Resort Function (Essays in International Economics), The Prudential Regulation of Banks, United Kingdom Banking Supervision (Studies in Financial Institutions & Markets), Informal Finance: Some Findings from Asia, Real Estate Booms and Banking Busts: An International Perspective (Occasional Papers), Profit and Loss Sharing: An Islamic Experiment in Finance and BankingTop headlines: Bill Gates Answers Your Questions: The Microsoft co-founder and leading philanthropist answers selected reader questions in this exclusive NEWSWEEK forum. ›22:02 9 Oct, Tue Measles deaths drop by 74 percent: Measles deaths worldwide declined dramatically to about 200,000 a year, continuing a successful trend, global health authorities reported Thursday. ›16:37 Abortion not seen linked with depression: No high-quality study done to date can document that having an abortion causes psychological distress, U.S. researchers said. ›13:59 Cruise ship carrying 122 adrift in Antarctica: The Argentine navy says a cruise ship carrying 122 people is adrift and taking on water in Antarctica but is in no danger of sinking. ›20:50 Ansen on Lars and the Real Girl: Its not smutty, its not snide, its not creepybut what is it? ›16:02 12 Oct, Fri Mortgage applications surge by record: Mortgage applications surged by the largest amount on record last week as a new Federal Reserve program pushed interest rates down to their lowest level in more than 3 years. ›18:36 3 Dec, Wed AT&T, DuPont cutting thousands of jobs: AT&T Inc. joined the recession's parade of layoffs Thursday by announcing plans to cut 12,000 jobs, about 4 percent of its work force. 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