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Cambridge University Press The Past and Future of Central Bank Cooperation
Book SynopsisThis book looks back at the historical experience of central bank cooperation in the western world since the late nineteenth century. It provides a systematic analysis of the nature and characteristics of this form of co-operation and offers a global perspective on what its future might look like.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'Central banks play as central a role in economic welfare and financial stability today as they have ever played. And globalization makes cooperation among monetary and financial authorities even more crucial than before. This volume throws valuable new light on the way cooperation has been conducted in the past and on some of the key issues that will confront central bank collaboration in the future.' Sir Andrew Crockett, President, JP Morgan Chase InternationalReview of the hardback: 'This clear and well researched book on 130 years of central bank cooperation will be a unique tool for historians and economists. It doesn't discuss the desirability of cooperation but it explains how it worked (or, in some cases, did not work).' Jacques de Larosière, Former President, European Bank for Reconstruction and DevelopmentReview of the hardback: 'It offers a valuable insight into the world of central bank cooperation, both past and future, and how the past is shaping the future.' Journal of Financial History ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: past and future of central bank co-operation Piet Clement; 1. One hundred and thirty years of central bank cooperation: a BIS perspective Claudio Borio and Gianni Toniolo; 2. Almost a century of central bank cooperation Richard N. Cooper; 3. Architects of stability? International co-operation among financial supervisors Ethan B. Kapstein; 4. Central banks, governments and the European monetary unification process Alexandre Lamfalussy; 5. The future of central bank cooperation Beth Simmons; 6. Interdependence and co-operation: an endangered pair? Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa.
£32.29
Cambridge University Press The Bank of England and Public Policy 1941 1958
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Cambridge University Press Banking and Business in the Roman World
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Cambridge University Press The Bank of England and Public Policy 19411958
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Cambridge University Press City Bankers 1890 1914
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Cambridge University Press The Political Economy of American Monetary Policy
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Cambridge University Press Insider Lending
Book SynopsisThis book, first published in 1994, explores the important role that insider lending played in the economic development of early nineteenth-century New England. Ironically, when banks began to lend more and more of their funds at arm's length, information problems forced them to restrict their activities to short-term commercial lending.Trade Review'This is an important book which explores the evolution of bank lending strategies during the industrialisation of New England.' Mary B. Rose, Business HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Vehicles for accumulating capital; 2. Insider lending and Jacksonian hostility towards banks; 3. Engines of economic development; 4. The decline of insider lending and the problem of determining creditworthiness; 5. Professionalization and specialization; 6. The merger movement in banking; Conclusion.
£65.55
Cambridge University Press Religion State and Politics in the Soviet Union and Successor States
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Cambridge University Press Financial Markets and European Monetary Cooperation
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Cambridge University Press Japanese Banking
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Cambridge University Press Sir Robert Clayton and the Origins of English Deposit Banking 1658 1685
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Cambridge University Press The Banking Panics of the Great Depression
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Cambridge University Press Insider Lending
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Cambridge University Press Banking Trade and Industry
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£99.75
Cambridge University Press Reforming Financial Systems
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Cambridge University Press U.S. Bank Deregulation in Historical Perspective
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£104.50
Cambridge University Press Whos Not Working and Why
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Cambridge University Press A History of Banking in Antebellum America
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Cambridge University Press The Banking Panics of the Great Depression
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Cambridge University Press A History of Banking in Antebellum America
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Cambridge University Press A History of Central Banking in Great Britain and the United States Studies in Macroeconomic History
Book SynopsisCentral banks in Great Britain and the United States arose early in the financial revolution. The Bank of England was created in 1694 while the first Banks of the United States appeared in 1791â1811 and 1816â36, and were followed by the Independent Treasury, 1846â1914. These institutions, together with the Suffolk Bank and the New York Clearing House, exercised important central banking function before the creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913. In this 2005 book, significant monetary changes in the lives of these British and American institutions are examined within a framework that deals with the knowledge and behavior of central bankers and their interactions with economists and politicians. Central bankers' behavior has shown considerable continuity in the influence of incentives and their interest in the stability of the financial markets.Trade Review'The forces and personalities shaping the development of central banking are carefully detailed in this excellent and readable book on central banking in the United States and Great Britain.' Lee Hoskins, Former President, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland'The book is an ambitious and successful undertaking. It should be required reading for anyone concerned with monetary institutions and the battle between rules and discretion in policymaking. John H. Wood makes clear that the conflicts between rules and discretion will continue, and through his deft historical analysis he reminds us that the choices we make today will have important consequences for the future.' Edward Prescott, Nobel Laureate, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis'By bringing the pieces together and focusing on the evolution of central bankers this book enables the reader to see the forest rather than the trees and to appreciate one of the successes of economics. This book will be a useful resource for both economic historians and monetary economists looking for a broad overview of the evolution of Anglo-American central banking and monetary theory.' Angela Redish, EH.Net'Economists and ordinary people have always found it difficult to understand central bankers. John H. Wood here provides a reason: central bankers themselves quite often did not fully understand their functions and the impacts of their decisions on macroeconomic outcomes. That finally has changed, Wood argues, because central banks now appear to have a 'contract' to provide price-level stability, and they can deliver on it. But the contract may be tenuous, as it is subject to political exigencies. Wood's rich history of British and American experience thus prepares us to think seriously about the future of central banking.' Richard Sylla, New York University'John Wood has undertaken the ambitious and novel task of retelling the old story of central banking by juxtaposing the histories of the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve, including its precursors, with the object of revealing the similarities and diversities of the challenges as well as their responses. A distinctive and singular achievement.' Elmus Wicker, Indiana University'The book does an excellent job in providing a coherent, detailed and readable account of the forces and personalities that have shaped the development of central banking in Britain and the United States.' Central Banking'This is a well-written, highly readable book … Throughout the book, Wood makes excellent use of his (mostly published) sources. He quotes extensively - often the quotes tell the story more or less by themselves - and he cleverly juxtaposes quotes from different eras, thereby demonstrating that time and circumstances may change but the basic issues in central banking by and large remain the same. … In short, Wood's book offers a catalogue of central banking theory brought to life through a vivid depiction of more than two centuries of central banking practice.' Financial History ReviewTable of Contents1. Understanding monetary policy; 2. An introduction to central bankers; 3. Making a central bank: I. Surviving; 4. Making a central bank: II. Looking for a rule; 5. Making a central bank: III. Ends and means; 6. Central banking in the United States, 1790–1914; 7. Before the crash: the origins and early years of the Federal Reserve; 8. The fall and rise of the Federal Reserve, 1929–51; 9. Central banking in the United States after the Great Depression, 1951–71; 10. The Bank of England after 1914; 11. Rules vs. authorities; 12. Permanent suspension; 13. Back to the beginning? New contracts for new companies.
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Cambridge University Press Stresstesting the Banking System Methodologies and Applications
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Cambridge University Press Informality and Monetary Policy in Japan
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Cambridge University Press Monetary Policy in the Euro Area Strategy and DecisionMaking at the European Central Bank
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Cambridge University Press Monetary Policy In the Euro Area Strategy and DecisionMaking at the European Central Bank
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Cambridge University Press Whos Not Working and Why
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Cambridge University Press Financial Markets and European Monetary Cooperation
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Cambridge University Press Financial Crises in Emerging Markets
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Cambridge University Press Banking in Modern China Entrepreneurs Professional Managers and the Development of Chinese Banks 18971937 Cambridge Modern China Series
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Cambridge University Press The Market the State and the ExportImport Bank of the United States 19342000
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Cambridge University Press Nugget Coombs A Reforming Life
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Cambridge University Press Offshore Finance
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Cambridge University Press Monetary Theory and Bretton Woods The Construction of an International Monetary Order Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
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£90.25
Cambridge University Press Past and Future of Central Bank Cooperation
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Cambridge University Press Banking Stability and Financial Conglomerates in European Emerging Countries
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Cambridge University Press Substantive Accountability in Europes New Economic Governance
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£90.25
Cambridge University Press The Origins History and Future of the Federal Reserve A Return to Jekyll Island Studies in Macroeconomic History
Book SynopsisThis book contains essays presented at a conference held in November 2010 to mark the centenary of the famous 1910 Jekyll Island meeting of leading American financiers and the US Treasury. The 1910 meeting resulted in the Aldrich Plan, a precursor to the Federal Reserve Act that was enacted by Congress in 1913. The 2010 conference, sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Rutgers University, featured assessments of the Fed''s near 100-year track record by prominent economic historians and macroeconomists. The final chapter of the book records a panel discussion of Fed policy making by the current and former senior Federal Reserve officials.Trade Review'The 2010 Jekyll Island conference assembled preeminent scholars who have spent a lifetime studying central banking and the Federal Reserve. The historical perspective provided by these scholars offers continuing insights into the great issues confronting central banks. Not only students of central banking, but also general readers, will learn from this book.' Robert Hetzel, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, and author of The Great Recession'As the Federal Reserve system approaches its 100-year anniversary in 2013, interest in reviewing and evaluating its history and performance increases. This volume includes seven papers and a larger number of commentaries presented at the 100th anniversary of an important conference held at Jekyll Island in Georgia in 1910 that contributed to the Fed's establishment. The papers by leading Federal Reserve and academic scholars are original contributions that discuss various aspects of the Fed's history and operations. They represent important reading for serious students of central banking.' George G. Kaufman, Loyola University, Chicago'The conference on which this volume is based was a truly unusual event, one that deserves the label 'historic' in two senses. First, it marked the 100th anniversary of a meeting, also held on Jeykll Island, that was crucial in the founding of the Federal Reserve System. Second, the extent of attendance and participation by high-level U.S. monetary policy makers, together with leading academic and Federal Reserve economists, was unprecedented.' Bennett McCallum, Carnegie Mellon University'If you want to understand financial crises, you have to understand the interplay between the central bank and the markets. And to understand how the linkages between the Fed and the financial markets have evolved and continue to change, I cannot think of a better source than this volume.' Andrew K. Rose, University of California, Berkeley'… most engaging,' The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction Michael D. Bordo and William Roberds; 1. 'To establish a more effective supervision of banking': how the birth of the Fed altered bank supervision Eugene N. White; 2. Comment Warren Weber; 3. The promise and performance of the Federal Reserve as lender of last resort Michael D. Bordo and David C. Wheelock; 4. Comment Ellis Tallman; 5. Where it all began: lending of last resort and Bank of England monitoring during the Overend, Gurney panic of 1866 Marc Flandreau and Stefano Ugolini; 6. Comment Barry Eichengreen; 7. Volatile times and persistent conceptual errors: US monetary policy 1914–51 Charles W. Calomiris; 8. Comment Allan Meltzer; 9. Government, credit markets, and economic activity Lawrence Christiano and Daisuke Ikeda; 10. Policy debates at the FOMC: 1993–2002 Marvin Goodfriend; 11. Two models of land overvaluation and their implications Narayana Kocherlakota; 12. Panel discussion: Fed policymaking in practice Ben S. Bernanke, E. Gerald Corrigan and Alan Greenspan.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Homewreckers
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Can’t recommend this joint enough. It is extremely hard to translate what is happening in our society right now. … Aaron Glantz does a great job moving through the jungle of jargon. But most importantly he implicitly raises a question that has been quietly dogging me for years: What does it mean to tell your children that their success is ultimately a matter of discipline, education, hard work, and citizenship, and then see that those factors have almost no power to explain the (financial) success of the Titans of America. ... An illuminating and discomfiting read.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates (via Instagram) "Essential reading." — New York Review of Books “Glantz skillfully tells a bigger story about American housing that’s tortuous, confounding and ultimately enraging.” — New York Times “With prose that is as plainspoken as it is propulsive, Glantz explains how homeownership propelled the American Dream until 1986 only to fall, one financial scheme at a time, at the hands of billionaire money-grabbers and the failing regulators and gutless politicians who enable them.” — Beth Macy, author of Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America “In case there was ever any doubt that the world of high finance affects American households, Aaron Glantz lays it to rest in this gripping narrative of how the foreclosure machine became a grand mechanism to convert America’s historic wealth building asset—its homes—into a commodity for financiers.” — Sarah Bloom Raskin, former deputy secretary of the US Treasury and former governor of the Federal Reserve Board “An eye-opening account of how a cast of characters from Wall Street to Hollywood enriched themselves at the expense of American families. Glantz weaves together personal stories, historical context, and sharp and insightful analysis of how financiers created predatory products that wreaked devastation on the US economy and… countless families.” — Mehrsa Baradaran, professor of law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law “Glantz, through exemplary journalism, reveals the new corporate landlords’ relationship to Donald Trump and their exploitation of loopholes in public policy, in combination with the endless resources of greedy bankers, to transform the 2008 foreclosure crisis into predatory renting schemes and cash in on widespread housing insecurity.” — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership “This is a story that needs to be told, and Glantz tells it beautifully. Homewreckers reads like a novel, but it carries an important message: We must never let this happen again.” — Alan S. Blinder, Gordon S. Rentscher Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University, former member of the Council of Economic Advisers, Vice Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve System “In this remarkable book, Aaron Glantz provides a well-researched, highly readable look at one of the nation’s most underreported stories…a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the Great Recession and the role of the voracious financial interests who would go on to put Donald Trump in the White House.” — Gwenda Blair, author of The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a President “A tale of greed and corruption...A solid, useful exploration of a system that ‘needs substantial, systemic change.’” — Kirkus Reviews “[A] cogent, infuriating exposé… lucid prose and impressive research make this an essential account of an under-the-radar housing crisis.” — Publishers Weekly “Glantz does an excellent job explaining the financial complexities of the housing crisis and its fallout. But the real strength of his book comes from the personal stories he weaves in to illustrate his points…the most surprising stories are those of the homewreckers themselves.” — BookPage "A shocking investigation into America's housing crisis. ... A tale of greed and corruption." — Christiane Amanpour "Smart, engrossing... chronicles how a few vulture capitalists scored big paydays on the backs of beleaguered middle-class homeowners, exploiting government largesse to cover their losses - and positioning themselves for top Trump administration jobs." — San Francisco Chronicle
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Penguin Putnam Inc Americas Bank
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Penguin Putnam Inc Lords of Finance
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Random House USA Inc 13 Bankers
Book SynopsisIn spite of its key role in creating the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, the American banking industry has grown bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks whose assets amount to more than 60 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, this oligarchy proved it could first hold the global economy hostage and then use its political muscle to fight off meaningful reform. 13 Bankers brilliantly charts the rise to power of the financial sector and forcefully argues that we must break up the big banks if we want to avoid future financial catastrophes. Updated, with additional analysis of the government’s recent attempt to reform the banking industry, this is a timely and expert account of our troubled political economy.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Death of the Banker
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WW Norton & Co The End of Alchemy
Book Synopsis“If [The End of Alchemy] gets the attention it deserves, it might just save the world.” —Michael Lewis, Bloomberg ViewTrade Review"An outstandingly lucid account of postwar economic policymaking and the dilemmas we now face. . . . It is rare to encounter a book on economics quite as intellectually exhilarating as The End of Alchemy—a dazzling performance indeed." -- John Plender - Financial Times"I have read umpteen books about the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and its lessons. This is the cleverest one, brimming over with new ideas. While other ‘lords of finance’ publish memoirs, King has produced a brilliant analysis not only of what went wrong in the global financial system but also of what went wrong in economics itself." -- Niall Ferguson"A sophisticated and highly approachable study of how modern finance has lost its way. Few individuals are more qualified than Lord Mervyn King to imagine the banking of the future. His book should be required reading." -- Henry Kissinger"Mervyn King asks, ‘Why has almost every industrialized country found it difficult to overcome the stagnation that followed the financial crisis in 2007–2008, and why did money and banking, the alchemists of a market economy, turn into its Achilles heel?’ He addresses these questions, and much more. For those endeavoring to understand the greatest financial crisis of our time and the future of finance, this highly provocative book is a must-read." -- Alan Greenspan"Drawing on years of scholarly study of banking history and his real world experience in fighting financial panic, Mervyn King has set out a new framework for monetary and financial reform. Seemingly simple in concept, it challenges prevailing banking and market practice. The End of Alchemy demands debate and a well-reasoned response." -- Paul A. Volcker
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John Wiley & Sons Inc FixedIncome Analysis for the Global Financial
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive new book explains and clarifies the essential building blocks underlying the pricing and risk analysis of fixed-income securities and derivatives - using mathematics lightly, to make things easier, not harder. The emphasis throughout is on how-to-do, on building operational knowledge from the ground up.Table of ContentsPartial table of contents: SHORT-TERM MONEY MARKET INSTRUMENTS. Background and Terminology. Interest, Discount, Compounded Yield. Foreign-Exchange Transactions. LONG-TERM SECURITIES, FUTURES, AND SWAPS. Zero-Coupon Bonds. Fixed- Interest Coupon Bonds. Futures on Bonds and Notes. OPTIONS. An Introduction to Options. Fixed-Income Options, Bonds with Optionlike Features. Modeling the Yield Curve. Selected Bibliography. Index.
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The University of Michigan Press Banking on Reform
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Random House USA Inc The Cult of We
Book SynopsisWALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • A FINANCIAL TIMES, FORTUNE, AND NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • “The riveting, definitive account of WeWork, one of the wildest business stories of our time.”—Matt Levine, Money Stuff columnist, Bloomberg Opinion The definitive story of the rise and fall of WeWork (also depicted in the upcoming Apple TV+ series WeCrashed, starring Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway), by the real-life journalists whose Wall Street Journal reporting rocked the company and exposed a financial system drunk on the elixir of Silicon Valley innovation. LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDWeWork would be worth $10 trillion, more than any other company in the world. It wasn’t just an office space provider. It was a tech company—an AI startup, even. Its WeGrow schools and WeLive r
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Random House Publishing Group Memoirs
Book SynopsisBorn into one of the wealthiest families in America—he was the youngest son of Standard Oil scion John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the celebrated patron of modern art Abby Aldrich Rockefeller—David Rockefeller has carried his birthright into a distinguished life of his own. His dealings with world leaders from Zhou Enlai and Mikhail Gorbachev to Anwar Sadat and Ariel Sharon, his service to every American president since Eisenhower, his remarkable world travels and personal dedication to his home city of New York—here, the first time a Rockefeller has told his own story, is an account of a truly rich life.
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Currencies Capital and Central Bank Balances
Book SynopsisDrawing from their 2018 conference, the Hoover Institution brings together leading academics and monetary policy makers to share ideas about the practical issues facing central banks today. The expert contributors discuss US monetary policy at individual central banks and reform of the international monetary and financial system.
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