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Crisis Resolution In The Thrift Industry - A Mid America Institute Report

by Edward A. Snyder, Roger C. Kormendi, S. Craig Pirrong e Victor Bernard

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 On February 6, 1989, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board contacted Mid America Institute to inquire whether it would undertake an independent, academically oriented analysis of the insolvency resolution crisis in the thrift industry. The Senate Banking Committee, during the course of hearings on the thrift crisis, had suggested to the Bank Board tile desirability of an independent assessment of Bank: Board and FSLIC resolution methodology, specifically as it related to the controversy surrounding the December deals, the Southwest Plan, and the possibility that tax considerations were driving certain deals. The Bank Board had already initiated studies from industry-oriented perspectives. Therefore, it felt that an academic perspective would provide both a valuable addition to the process, and by the nature of academia, perhaps the best prospect of a credible and independent viewpoint. The Bank Board was prepared to give an appropriately structured Task Force virtually unlimited access to all personnel, documents and resources that the Task Force felt necessary to come to an uncompromising assessment. The only significant constraint imposed was that a report had to be available prior to the start of the next round of Senate Banking Committee hearings on March 1, 1989. The Task Force would be given complete discretion as to the scope and coverage of the report, but it was requested that the topic of the December deals, particularly the associated tax considerations, be a significant part of the report.
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Bank Mergers: Current Issues And Perspectives

118,59€ + 10% CARD

 Historians of our financial system will record this as an age of deregulation and bank mergers. During the 1981-1986 period, there were 2,139 mergers in banking and finance, accounting for 16 percent of total merger activity.l More mergers occurred in banking and finance than in any other industry.
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Financial Services Revolution - Policy Directions For The Future

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 In Chapter 5, William Shughart also considers the part that politics played in banking legislation during the 1930s, but he looks at the banking legislation passed in the United States.
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Causes And Costs Of Depository Institution Failures

171,59€ + 10% CARD

 One of the major financial market events of the 1980s was the precipitous rise of depository institution failures including banks, savings and loan associations, and credit unions.
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Banking Structures In Major Countries

237,84€ + 10% CARD

 The ongoing globalization of financial markets has increased the import- ance to users of financial services, policy-makers and financial analysts of understanding the structure and operation of banking systems in other countries as well as that in their own country.
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Closed-End Investment Companies - Issues And Answers

by Gustav V. R Born e Seth Anderson

118,59€ + 10% CARD

 Closed-End Investment Companies (CEICs) were the dominant form of investment companies in the United States during the early part of this century, but interest in them declined after the 1929 stock market crash.
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Governing Banking'S Future: Markets Vs. Regulation

171,59€ + 10% CARD

 National treatment and national sovereignty are preserved. national responsibility for (a) monetary policy, (b) prevention of unwarranted financial panics in domestically chartered institutions, whether foreign or domestically owned, and (c) supervision of all domestically chartered institutions, regardless of ownership.
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Theory Of Production For The Financial Firm

by Diana Hancock

118,59€ + 10% CARD

 Furthermore, if the effects of regulations on user costs are excluded, it is impossible to analyze monetary policy effects. Chapter 2 examines the principal areas of regulation that affect user costs. For example, reserve requirements, as administered by the Federal Reserve, act as a tax on financial firms so covered. Required reserves earn no return to the financial firm and there is foregone revenue. Deposit insurance increases the user cost of servicing deposits to the banks. Interest rate regulations place limits on interest rates on time de posits, or prohibit payments on demand deposits during part of the period studied. Underlying all these are the open market operations of the Federal Reserve, and their effects on interest rates and the quantities of financial goods. Chapter 2 reveals that previous work on the estimation of bank tech nologies is incomplete, and that the regulations require modelling as a part of the profit maximizing structure. 1.3 User Cost Derivation Chapter 3 discusses the construction of user costs. These are derived for the services from all assets or liabilities on a bank balance sheet or appearing on the income statement. The user cost formulation permits goods to be classified as outputs and inputs. Those with a positive user cost, where expenditures per unit exceed revenues per unit, are inputs. The unit for financial goods such as loans or deposits is one dollar per period. Goods with a negative user cost, with expenditures falling below revenue per unit, are outputs.
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Closed-End Fund Pricing - Theories And Evidence

by Jeffery A. Born e Seth Anderson

118,59€ + 10% CARD

 Closed-End Investment Companies (CEICs) have experienced a significant revival of interest, both as investment vehicles and as the subject of academic research, over the past decade. This academic research has focused on the nature of closed-end funds' discounts and premiums and on the share price behavior of these firms. The first book by the authors, "Closed-End Investment Companies: Issues and Answers," addresses closed-end fund academic articles published prior to 1991. This second book addresses those articles that have appeared since that time. Closed-End Fund Pricing: Theories and Evidence is designed for the academic researcher interested in CEICs and the practitioner interested in using CEICs as an investment vehicle. The authors summarize the evolution of CEICs, present the factors thought to cause CEIC shares to trade at different levels from their net asset values, provide a complete survey of the recent academic literature on this topic, and summarize the current state of research on CEICs.
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Governing Banking'S Future: Markets Vs. Regulation

by Catherine England

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 National treatment and national sovereignty are preserved. national responsibility for (a) monetary policy, (b) prevention of unwarranted financial panics in domestically chartered institutions, whether foreign or domestically owned, and (c) supervision of all domestically chartered institutions, regardless of ownership.
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Changes In The Life Insurance Industry: Efficiency, Technology And Risk Management

237,84€ + 10% CARD

 Major challenges for life insurance companies have been posed by an unprecedented wave of mergers and acquisitions in the insurance industry and the emergence of non-traditional competitors such as banks, mutual fund companies and investment advisory firms.
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Crisis And Change In The Japanese Financial System

237,84€ + 10% CARD

 At the start of the twenty-first century, the Japanese financial system is undergoing a major transformation. How will the Big Bang's financial deregulation further change the Japanese financial system, including the huge government financial institutions and postal savings system?
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Initial Public Offerings: Findings And Theories

by Jeffery A. Born, Seth Anderson e T. Randolph Beard

118,59€ + 10% CARD

 Initial public offerings (IPOs) play a crucial role in allocating resources in market economies. Audience: Designed for use by anyone wishing to perform further academic research in the area of IPOs and by those practitioners interested in IPOs as investment vehicles.
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Consumer Attitudes Toward Credit Insurance

by John M. Barron e Michael E. Staten

171,59€ + 10% CARD

 Consumer Attitudes Toward Credit Insurance provides the findings of a survey of approximately 3600 individuals who had the opportunity to purchase credit life insurance in conjunction with all types of consumer loans, except first mortgages and credit cards.
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Closed-End Funds, Exchange-Traded Funds, And Hedge Funds - Origins, Functions, And Literature

by Jeffery A. Born, Oliver Schnusenberg e Seth Anderson

98,71€ + 10% CARD

 This text presents a carefully focused and understandable description of closed-end funds, exchange-traded funds, and hedge funds, highlighting the big, unresolved questions, while also including careful and fair accounts of the state of the literature.
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Low Power Design Methodologies

175,73€ + 10% CARD

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 Low Power Design Methodologies presents the first in-depth coverage of all the layers of the design hierarchy, ranging from the technology, circuit, logic and architectural levels, up to the system layer.
Molecular Basis Of Neurological Disorders And Their Treatment

by A. Albano, E. Ferrari, J.W. Gorrod e S. Papa

243,33€ + 10% CARD

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 A particular advantage of a cytochemical approach to the investigaÂ tion of mitochondrial disorders is that it allows the mosaic distribution of certain of these defects to be detected, whereas the tissue homogenizaÂ tion involved in conventional enzyme assays or immunoblotting precludes this.
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Capital Markets, Globalization, And Economic Development

118,59€ + 10% CARD

 Consists of fourteen articles contributed by authors from Australia, Asia, Europe, South America, and the United States who provide a range of insights. This book examines some of the capital market issues that economies face as they mature. These include credit ratings, financial regulation, infrastructure privatization and other topics.
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Investment Management And Mismanagement - History, Findings, And Analysis

by Seth Anderson

118,59€ + 10% CARD

 Presents a critical analysis of four critical areas of investment management. This book provides an overview of portfolio management and its historical evolution. It includes a review and analysis of a range of academic research into the performance of portfolio managers.
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Asian Economy And Finance: - A Post-Crisis Perspective

by Dilip K. Das-Gupta

131,84€ + 10% CARD

 Written in a comprehensive manner, this book covers large areas of Asian macro-economy and finance. It focuses on global and intra-regional trade and investment, as well as on financial and monetary aspects. It imparts knowledge on the Asian economy related themes to students, researchers and policy makers alike.
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Mutual Funds - Fifty Years Of Research Findings

by Parvez Ahmed e Seth Anderson

171,59€ + 10% CARD

 Designed for the academic researcher interested in the various issues surrounding mutual funds and for the practitioner interested in funds for investment purposes. This book traces the historical evolution of funds and presents different aspects of the Investment Company Act of 1940.
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What Can She Know? - Feminist Theory And The Construction Of Knowledge

by Lorraine Code

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 In this lively and accessible book Lorraine Code addresses one of the most controversial questions in contemporary theory of knowledge, a question of fundamental concern for feminist theory as well: Is the sex of the knower epistemologically...
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The Piper'S Tune - Book One

by Jessica Stirling

11,58€

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 Lindsay Franklin has just left her Glasgow school and finds her role as a marriageable young lady more than agreeable. But her life changes when her charming, Irish cousin Forbes comes to Glasgow to join the family shipbuilding business.
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All Is Clouded By Desire - Global Banking, Money Laundering, And International Organized Crime

by Alan A. Block e Constance A. Weaver

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 Focusing on the intensely private Genava banker Bruce Rappaport and the Bank of New York, the authors show how the two worked together with dodgy Russian banks to move and launder billions through channels that include off-shore banks, shady joint-ventures, and outright criminal organizations.

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