Global financial crisis

global impact and solutions

Out of the debate over the effectiveness of the policy responses to the 2008 global financial crisis as well as over the innovativeness of global governance comes this collection by leading academics and practitioners who explore the dynamics of economic crisis and impact. Edited by ...

Financial regulation at the crossroads

implications for supervision, institutional design and trade

To gain from trade, modern economies rely on a stable financial system. In many countries around the world, the benefits of finance are taken for granted. Financial stability comes to the forefront only in times of crisis. The global financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 ...

Historia financiera de Europa

Este es el primer intento de escribir una Historia financiera de Europa desde el inicio de los tiempos modernos. Un libro semejante no había sido escrito hasta ahora, aunque contásemos con algunas historias generales del dinero y con monografías sobre las finanzas de un solo ...

Fatal risk

a cautionary tale of aig's corporate suicide

The true story of how risk destroys, as told through the ongoing saga of AIG From the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, the subject of the financial crisis has been well covered. However, the story central to the crisis-that of AIG-has until now ...

The House of Dimon

how JPMorgans's Jamie Dimon rose to the top of the financial world

 behind-the-scenes look at Wall Street's top banker Following the eleventh-hour rescue of Bear Stearns by JP Morgan, Jamie Dimon's profile reached stratospheric levels. And while the deals and decisions he's made have usually turned out to be the right ones, his journey ...

The new financial deal

understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and its (unintended) consequences

The good, the bad, and the scary of Washington's attempt to reform Wall Street The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is Washington's response to America's call for a new regulatory framework for the twenty-first century. In The New Financial ...

Extreme money

the masters of the Universe and the cult of risk

The human race created money and finance. But our inventions re-create us. Mankind mistook money - a lubricant of society and human well-being - for an end in itself. Finance, the monetary shadow of real things, came to dominate human reality. Extreme Money tells the story of ...

Leverage

how cheap money will destroy the world

How the wealthy and powerful abuse finance to skim immense profits Debasement of the dollar as a result of ill-use of leverage is destroying the global economy, and in "Leverage", well known market commentator Karl Denninger follows the path of money throughout history to prove ...

Exile on Wall Street

one analyst's fight to save the big banks from themselves

An insider points out the holes that still exist on Wall Street and in the banking system Exile on Wall Street is a gripping read for anyone with an interest in business and finance, U.S. capitalism, the future of banking, and the root causes ...

Models. Behaving. Badly

why confusing illusion with reality can lead to disaster, on Wall Street and in life

Emanuel Derman was a quantitative analyst (Quant) at Goldman Sachs, one of the financial engineers whose mathematical models became crucial for Wall Street. The reliance investors put on such quantitative analysis was catastrophic for the economy, setting off the ongoing string of financial crises that ...

Cleptopía

fabricantes de burbujas y vampiros financieros en la era de la estafa

Considerado por buena parte de la crítica norteamericana (Time, The Washington Post, The New York Times...) uno de los mejores libros sobre las razones de la crisis financiera actual, Cleptopía es un preciso relato, lleno de humor negro y no poca mala leche, de los ...

Red capitalism

the fragile financial foundation of China's extraordinary rise

Red Capitalism, Carl Walter and Fraser Howie detail how the Chinese government reformed and modeled its financial system in the 30 years since it began its policy of engagement with the west. Instead of a stable series of policies producing steady growth, China's financial ...

La política financiera y su impacto en la acumulación

El caso argentino, 1977-2006

Una de las medidas económicas más estudiadas por la literatura especializada ha sido la política financiera y el impacto que la misma ha tenido sobre la economía. Sin embargo, la mayor parte de los trabajos relacionados con esta temática han tendido a concentrarse en reformas ...

Measuring the costs of chapter 11 cases

professional fees in american corporate bankruptcy cases

This book examines the costs of both large Chapter 11 cases, that are the subject of much academic and popular attention, and the more typical Chapter 11 cases that are numerically more common. The book calls for a more subtle, less combative examination of Chapter ...

Hacia la banca multicanal

la transformación del sector financiero en la economía del conocimiento

Whoops!

why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay

There's probably a word in German for that feeling you get when you can understand something while it's being explained to you, but lose hold of the explanation as soon as it stops. A lot of writing about the credit crunch has that ...

Crisis financiera

nuevas manías, viejos pánicos

Coords. Alicia Girón, Patricia Rodríguez, José Déniz.Poco después del estallido de la crisis financiera que comenzó en Estados Unidos en 2008, y que rápidamente se convirtió en global, los autores de este libro (conocidos investigadores y profesores universitarios de España, Francia, Estados Unidos y ...

The great depression ahead

how to prosper in the debt crisis of 2010-2012

Dent, former strategic consultant at Bain & Company, outlines the features of what he predicts will be the next Great Depression. The author argues that demographic trends were the greatest drivers of our economy, along with radical new technologies, working together to follow a four-stage life ...

La dimensión en el sector bancario

(Revista Perspectivas del Sistema Financiero, Nº99, año 2010)

Del ahorro del miedo al consumo extemporáneo

(Revista Cuadernos de Información Económica, Nº218, año 2010)