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  • Technology and Finance

    Challenges for Financial Markets, Business Strategies and Policy Makers

    Series series Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
    Technology and Finance analyses the dramatic implications of technology for today's financial sector, for productivity growth and for monetary policy. A wide range of financial market activities are now technology driven; technology is also crucial in retail, private and corporate banking, and it has lowered entry barriers to the sector. New partic ... Read more

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  • Financial Markets in Central and Eastern Europe

    Stability and Efficiency

    Series series Routledge Studies in the European Economy
    The countries of Central and Eastern Europe have been through a profound transition process for more than a decade now. The financial sectors and markets in the region have been subject to major structural reforms including privatization, liberalization and the acquisition by foreign banks of controlling interests in local financial institutions. This important new book includes papers that chart ... Read more

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  • UK Banking After Deregulation (RLE: Banking & Finance)

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Banking & Finance
    How does financial deregulation affect the operation of the banking system in the UK? What are the consequences of the development of an electronic banking system? This book addresses these and other important questions in a survey of UK change in the financial sector and in banking in particular.Attention is given to the role of building societies after the ‘big bang’ and the implications for ... Read more

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  • Competition and Profitability in European Financial Services

    Strategic, Systemic and Policy Issues

    Series series Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
    Financial services firms play a key role in the European economy. The efficiency and profitability of these firms and the competition among them have an impact on allocation of savings, financing of investment, economic growth, the stability of the financial system and the transmission of monetary policy.This collection of research contributions includes evaluations of trends in the European ... Read more

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    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
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  • Reforming Pensions

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    Mandatory pensions are a worldwide phenomenon. However, with fixed contribution rates, monthly benefits, and retirement ages, pension systems are not consistent with three long-run trends: declining mortality, declining fertility, and earlier retirement. Many systems need reform. This book gives an extensive nontechnical explanation of the economics of pension design. The theoretical arguments ... Read more

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  • Where Does Money Come From?

    A Guide to the UK Monetary and Banking System

    Where Does Money Come From? reveals how, contrary to public perception, the bulk of today's money supply is created and allocated by commercial banks in their role as providers of credit. The authors argue that this system is inherently unstable, with little effective regulation of how much credit is provided, or whether it is used for productive or speculative purposes. Based on detailed research ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Safeguarding Global Financial Stability

    Political, Social, Cultural, and Economic Theories and Models

    by Gerard Caprio ...
    Political and social forces exert pressure on our globalized economy in many forms, from formal and informal policies to financial theories and technical models. Our efforts to shape and direct these forces to preserve financial stability reveal much about the ways we perceive the financial economy. The Handbook of Safeguarding Global Financial Stability examines our political economy, ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Banking

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Banking provides an overview and analysis of state-of-the-art research in banking written by leading researchers in the field. This handbook will appeal to graduate students of economics, banking and finance, academics, practitioners and policy makers. Consequently, the book strikes a balance between abstract theory, empirical analysis, and practitioner and policy-related ... Read more

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  • The End of Alchemy

    Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy

    by Mervyn King ...
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    by John Kay ...
    The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three decades has created a structure that lacks resilience and supports absurd volumes of trading. The finance sector devotes too little attention to the search for new investment opportunities and the stewardship of existing ones, and far too much to ... Read more

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  • Macro-Financial Linkages: Trends, Crises, and Policies

    Macrofinancial linkages have long been at the core of the IMF's mandate to oversee the stability of the global financial system. With the advent of the economic crisis, the Fund has drawn on this research in order to contribute to critical debates on the nature of appropriate policy responses at both the national and multilateral levels. The current juncture offers a good opportunity to take stock ... Read more

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