Banks Banking category: 2128 books
Valuing Banks
A New Corporate Finance Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
This book aims to overcome the limitations the variations in bank-specifics impose by providing a bank-specific valuation theoretical framework and a new asset-side model. The book includes also a constructive comparison of equity and asset side methods. The authors present a novel framework entitled,...
Anatomy of a Financial Crisis
A Real Estate Bubble, Runaway Credit Markets, and Regulatory Failure
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
An indepth look at the origins and development of the current financial crisis, from an economist and Washington insider. Jarsulic explains how a wide array of financial institutions, including mortgage banks, commercial banks, and investment banks created a credit bubble that supported nonprime mortgage lending and helped to inflate house prices.
Political Economy and Industrialism
Banks in Saint-Simonian Economic Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
The French philosopher and economist Saint-Simon (1760–1825) propounded a new political, economic and social order in which the quest for economic efficiency and social justice led to putting the workers at the forefront. On his death, his disciples worked to preserve his thought and developed it...
Multilateral Banks and the Development Process
Vital Links in the Results Chain
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. When the links in the chain represent development projects, if individual projects fail to achieve their purpose, the development program's effectiveness is compromised. When the chain's links are strong and well-connected, the results are improved for...
Fingers: The Man Who Brought Down Irish Nationwide and Cost Us €5.4bn
Michael Fingleton: The Man Who Brought Down Irish Nationwide and Cost Us €5.4bn
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Michael Fingleton was an Irish banking legend, the ultimate big money lender. He took Irish Nationwide Building Society from an obscure mortgage provider to a multi-billion euro property-lending casino, leaving the taxpayer to pick up the tab for €5.4 billion when the society eventually went bust.
Fingleton...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
The original 1987 Norwich seminar Usury: The Root Cause of the Injustices of Our Time, whose proceedings form the core of this work, had an extraordinary effect. After the endless analyses and altercations of left and right to which we were accustomed, here was an argument that went to the core of the...
Founding a Movement
Women's World Banking, 1975–1990
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Founding a Movement captures the impossible dream realized by a visionary group of women who met in Mexico City at the first United Nations World Conference on Women in 1975, and then, together, created the first global women's microfinance network. Drawing on more than 80 interviews, Michaela Walsh...
by David Murphy, Martina Devlin
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
1929... On Wall Street, during the worst financial crisis the world had ever seen, the word "Banksters" was coined to describe those ruthless individuals who had gambled away the country's wealth.
2009... The phrase "Banksters" is resurrected as David Murphy and Martina Devlin describe the shocking...
by Sheila Lewenhak
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This volume draws together diverse sources of information from the EIB’s own reports and bulletins, as well as reports of the Us Federal Reserve Board, the IMF and OECD, together with press and journal sources to examine the history, borrowing and lending operations from 1958-1980. It also discusses...
One Big Fib
The Incredible Story of the Fraudulent First International Bank of Grenada
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2003
The First International Bank of Grenada will go down in history as one of the biggest banking swindles of all time. Aided and abetted by a corrupt government, Van Brink and his satraps lured hundreds of innocent investors to place their savings in a bank he claimed "had a vision." With evangelical...
by Burkhard Mr. Drees, Garry Mr. Schinasi, Charles Mr. Kramer
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2001
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
During the years before 1914 the world’s still largely unused resources were brought increasingly within the framework of a single world economy. This process owed much to Britain’s ability to export capital on a scale which has never since been equalled. Yet periods of heavy investment overseas...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2008
The growth of financial intermediation research has yielded a host of questions that have pushed "design" issues to the fore even as the boundary between financial intermediation and corporate finance has blurred. This volume presents review articles on six major topics that are connected by information-theoretic...
by Tamim Mr. Bayoumi, Charles Mr. Collyns
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2000
What caused Asia's largest economy, once the envy of the world, to lag behind many of the other industrial countries? And why did it take so long for Japan to recover from the bursting of its asset price bubble of the late 1980s? In this volume, a team from the International Monetary Fund examines the...