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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Fixing Russias Banks
Book SynopsisDocuments how Russia's financial system is built on what Michael Bernstam and Alvin Rabushka call ersatz banks. These inferior imitation banks have served largely as tools of the government to redistribute public funds to favoured firms.
£8.50
John Wiley & Sons Inc The Whistleblowing Guide
Book SynopsisChoose the best speak-up arrangements for your organisation The last five years have seen dramatic and fundamental changes in whistleblower procedures for organisations. Prompted by a spate of important public disclosures, organizations are now mandated by law to implement effective arrangements enabling employees to speak up about perceived wrongdoing. Currently few resources exist to help with this. To help fill the gap, The Whistleblowing Guide examines the opportunities and challenges associated with different types of whistleblowing and speak-up arrangements, making recommendations based on best practices you can trust. Identifies the major organisational, structural and cultural obstacles to speaking up through speak-up arrangements Proposes effective whistleblowing and speak-up arrangements Explains the specific policy and legislation requirements that can promote or impede the effective implementation oTable of ContentsAbout the Companion Website vii Chapter 1 Introduction: The Importance of Speak-up Arrangements 1 Speaking Up in Organizations 1 Speak Up Arrangements: A New Perspective for Theory and Practice 2 Sustainable Speak-up Systems: A Model 3 Rationale 4 Who Should Read This Book? 7 Purpose of the Book 8 About the Authors 9 About the Book 10 Endnotes 11 Chapter 2 Why Speak-up Systems: Why Now? 13 Introduction 13 Background: Why Speak-up Systems, Why Now? 13 Endnotes 37 Chapter 3 A Comparative Study of Speak-up Arrangements in Banking, Engineering, and Healthcare Sectors 41 Introduction 41 Banking 42 Engineering 55 Healthcare 66 Conclusion 76 Endnotes 78 Chapter 4 Challenges and Obstacles to Effective Speak-up Arrangements 83 How Do People Speak Up? 84 Whistleblowing Is a Protracted Process 88 What Expectations Do Speak-ups Entail? 92 Challenges of Operating Speak-up Arrangements 97 Barriers to Responsiveness 106 Strategies for Trustworthiness (and Their Potential Pitfalls) 108 Facilitators of Responsiveness 117 Using Speak-up Data 119 Bringing It All Together: A Model for Developing Sustainable Speak-Up Systems 121 Conclusion 122 Endnotes 123 Chapter 5 Speak-up Procedures: A Guide for Professionals 127 Executive Summary 127 Benefits of Effective Speak-up Arrangements: 128 Recommendations 129 Endnotes 137 Chapter 6 Conclusions 139 Academic Literature 139 Empirical Work 142 A Framework for Understanding Speak-up Arrangements 144 Practical Relevance and Recommendations 146 Endnotes 147 Bibliography 149 Appendix 1 Speak-up Arrangements – Key Theories 163 Appendix 2 Project Methodology 167 Appendix 3 Other Resources 169 Index 171
£60.00
John Wiley & Sons Inc Bank 4.0 Banking Everywhere Never at a Bank
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£26.99
John Wiley & Sons Inc Engine of Inequality
Book SynopsisThe first book to reveal how the Federal Reserve holds the key to making us more economically equal, written by an author with unparalleled expertise in the real world of financial policy Following the 2008 financial crisis, the Federal Reserve's monetary policy placed much greater focus on stabilizing the market than on helping struggling Americans. As a result, the richest Americans got a lot richer while the middle class shrank and economic and wealth inequality skyrocketed. In Engine of Inequality, Karen Petrou offers pragmatic solutions for creating more inclusive monetary policy and equality-enhancing financial regulation as quickly and painlessly as possible. Karen Petrou is a leading financial-policy analyst and consultant with unrivaled knowledge of what drives the decisions of federal officials and how big banks respond to financial policy in the real world. Instead of proposing legislation that would never pass Congress, the author provides an insider's look at politicallTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi About the Author xiii Introduction xv Chapter 1 Inequality: Why It’s So Much Worse and What to Do About It 1 What We Know about Inequality that Economists Don’t 4 The Economic-Recovery Mirage 5 Why So Unequal So Fast? 7 Regulatory Wreckage 12 How to Fix Financial Policy 14 Chapter 2 How Unequal Are We? 18 Economic Inequality Fundamentals 19 Who Has How Much 22 What of Wealth? 24 The Inequality Engine 24 Worse Than That 25 The Most Inclusive Ever? 27 The Great Financial Crisis and Its Equality Aftermath 29 Chapter 3 What Makes Us So Unequal 32 The Mechanical Engineering of Economic Inequality 34 Death and Taxes 35 The Role of Transfer Payments 37 A Supply-Side Solution? 38 Public Wealth: A Sputtering Part in the Equality Engine 39 Is Education the Answer? 41 Is Trade Policy a Problem? 42 Global Policy Reform? 43 What to Do? 45 Chapter 4 Why Does Economic Inequality Matter So Much? 46 Inequality and Mortality 47 Political Polarization 49 Inequality’s Eviscerating Cost 50 Inequality and the Long Recession 52 Financial-Crisis Risk 53 Chapter 5 Following the Money 55 How Central Banks Work 57 The Modern Monetary-Policy Construct 60 The Fed’s Bailout Buckets 62 The Fed’s Payment Powers 64 Rules of the Financial Road 65 Four Fundamental Financial-Policy Flaws 69 Chapter 6 How Monetary Policy Made Most of Us Poorer 73 The Fed’s Heavy Hand 76 Why It’s the Fed’s Fault 77 How Ultra-Low Interest Rates Made America Still Less Equal and QE Still More Inequitable 80 The High Cost of Low-Rate Debt 83 The Low-Unemployment Myth 85 The Anti-Wealth Effect 87 Making Matters Still Worse 91 A Bigger Fed, Lower Rates, an Extreme Financial Crisis 93 Chapter 7 How to Make Monetary Policy Make Us More Equal 95 The Aggregate-Data Error 98 The Fed’s Real Mandate 102 The Fourth Mandate 104 The Fed’s Giant Faucet 105 Possible Solutions 108 Slowing the Inequality Engine 111 Chapter 8 Reckoning with Regulation 113 Consumer Finance Before the Crash 115 Are Debtors Just Deadbeats? 117 Are Banks to Blame? 118 The Businesses Banks Left Behind 120 Other Precursors of the Crash That Came 121 Capitalism and Capital Regulation 123 A Capital Cure 127 Going with the Flow 128 Death without Destruction 130 The Consumer-Protection Quagmire 131 An Unreadable Rulebook Thrown Only at Banks 133 The Bleak Outlook and a Better Future 134 Chapter 9 Remaking Money 137 What Money Is and Will Be 139 The Great Unequalizer 141 Turning Money into Data 143 What Makes Money Good Money 145 Crafting a Good Digital Dollar 146 How Money Moves 148 The Central-Bank Solution 151 Chapter 10 Rules to Equitably Live By 153 Why Not Just Deregulate? 156 Learning to Love Like-Kind Rules 158 The Specifics of Symmetric Regulation 161 Raising Up the Regulatory Playing Field 162 Building a New, Equality-Focused Banking System 165 Banking While Mailing 166 Establishing Equality Banks 168 New Money for a New Mission 170 Chapter 11 Financial Policy for an Equitable Future 175 Turning the Fed into a Force for Good 176 The Fed’s Failings 178 The Fed’s Equality Toolkit 178 The First Fix: Understanding America as It Is 180 The Second Fix: Set an Equality Plan and Say So 181 The Third Fix: A Far Smaller Fed Portfolio 183 The Fourth Fix: Normal, Moderate Interest Rates 187 The Final Fix: Ensuring Financial Stability 188 Ending the Doom Loop 190 The Future of Equitable Finance 192 Notes 193 Index 241
£19.54
Martino Fine Books Other peoples money and how the bankers use it
£12.12
PublicAffairs Sabotage: The Hidden Nature of Finance
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£21.60
Trine Day Liberation!: The Economics of Hope
Book SynopsisNo one creates any money to repay the debt, so we have to borrow and go deeper in debt. In real life the banksters have made us all debt slaves waiting hopefully for liberation from our bondage.
£13.25
Usborne Publishing Ltd Understanding Money
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£15.24
Parkhurst Brothers Publishers Inc The World Bank Unveiled: Inside the Revolutionary
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£999.99
Duncker & Humblot Green Finance: Case Studies: Vierteljahrshefte
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£111.60
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Finanziers in Sehnsuchtsraumen: Europaische
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£103.60
V&R unipress GmbH Unfinished Business: Putting European Banking
Book SynopsisThe banking system in Europe is large in relation to the economy. It is characterized by universal banking, and driven by a significant number of globally active national champions that are systemically important. Banks perform a vital role for the economy. But their leverage and deposit funding makes them inherently vulnerable to bank runs. Axel Wieandts role as former CEO of Hypo Real Estate, which he assumed immediately after the Lehman crisis in the fall of 2008, makes him uniquely placed to both examine the causes of the current situation of the European banking system and make suggestions for getting it back on track. His starting point is a comprehensive description of the European banking system and an analysis of the role of banks in the economy. He goes on to examine the root causes and implications of the Great Financial Crisis for the European banking system. He argues for full implementation of Banking Union with greater emphasis on market discipline and accountability.
£54.29
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft The Influence of Islam on Banking and Finance
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£24.75
NIAS Press From Monobank to Commercial Banking: Financial
Book SynopsisAn analysis of the difficulties and problems encountered in transforming the Vietnamese financial sector from one subordinate to government objectives and goals to an autonomous sector guided by market forces and competitive pressures. Here, the history of financial sector liberalization is traced and close attention paid to the activities and autonomy of the State Bank of Vietnam, the institution responsible for the supervision and regulation of the financial sector in Vietnam.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Executive Summary; 3. Central Planning and the First Phase of Reforms; 4. The East Asian Financial Crisis and its Aftermath, 1997-2003; 5. A Regional Comparison of Bank Supervision and Regulation; 6. The State Bank of Vietnam; 7. Financial Services to the Agricultural Sector; 8. Conclusion; Appendix A. The State Owned Commercial Banks; Appendix B. Important Events 1988-2003; Appendix C: Bank Supervision and Regulation Indicators; References; Index
£999.99
NIAS Press From Monobank to Commercial Banking: Financial
Book SynopsisAn analysis of the difficulties and problems encountered in transforming the Vietnamese financial sector from one subordinate to government objectives and goals to an autonomous sector guided by market forces and competitive pressures.Here, the history of financial sector liberalization is traced and close attention paid to the activities and autonomy of the State Bank of Vietnam, the institution responsible for the supervision and regulation of the financial sector in Vietnam.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Executive Summary; 3. Central Planning and the First Phase of Reforms; 4. The East Asian Financial Crisis and its Aftermath, 1997-2003; 5. A Regional Comparison of Bank Supervision and Regulation; 6. The State Bank of Vietnam; 7. Financial Services to the Agricultural Sector; 8. Conclusion; Appendix A. The State Owned Commercial Banks; Appendix B. Important Events 1988-2003; Appendix C: Bank Supervision and Regulation Indicators; References; Index
£999.99
Bocconi University Press Singularity Bank: A. I. and Runaway Transformation in Financial Services
Book SynopsisThe book tries to map the key innovation initiatives and emerging competitive advantages for banks, drawing examples from real cases of banks and fintech/digital challengers, and from the international consulting experience of the author. A methodological approach is taken to discuss the hypothetical ""singularity bank,"" a bank that could make redundant most of its human resources. AI apps would take control across all kind of processes, from compliance to capital allocation, from risk underwriting to customer advisory and sale. This book discusses also how this would cause key processes in the bank to change, and how organization and governance should evolve as a consequence. Also discussed is how human resources could rise to the challenge of the change brought by AI and the robotization of the banking business.
£40.80
Bocconi University Press Who will Rescue Finance?: The Role of the
Book SynopsisThe main idea of this book is that the root cause of the financial crisis is the ambition to handle risk as a well-defined commodity that can be traded in the market. The book provides an interpretation of the crisis going beyond simple reconstructions. Finance cannot be rescued by simply referring to ethics or limiting the remuneration of managers. This book is unique in that it covers both the American and the European crisis.
£999.99
NUS Press State and Finance in the Philippines, 1898-1941:
Book SynopsisDuring the First World War, ill-advised steps by colonial officials in the Philippines who were responsible for the colony's finances created a crisis which lasted from 1919 until 1922. The circumstances shook the foundations of the American colonial state and contributed to Manuel L. Quezon's successful effort to replace Sergio Osmea as leader of the politically dominant Nacionalista Party. These events have generally been blamed on a corruption scandal at the Philippine National Bank, which had been established in 1916 as a multi-purpose, semi-governmental agency whose purpose was to provide loans for the agricultural export industry, to do business as a commercial bank, to issue bank notes, and to serve as a depository for government funds.Based on detailed archival research, Yoshiko Nagano argues that the crisis in fact resulted from mismanagement of currency reserves and irregularities in foreign exchange operations by American officials, and that the notions of a ""corruption scandal"" arose from a colonial discourse that masked problems within the banking and currency systems and the U.S. colonial administration. Her analysis of this episode provides a fresh perspective on the political economy of the Philippines under American rule, and suggests a need for further scrutiny of historical accounts written on the basis of reports by colonial officials.
£999.99
