Stephen Axilrod is the ultimate Federal Reserve insider. He worked at the Fed's Board of Governors for more than thirty years and after that in private markets and as a consultant on monetary policy. With Inside the Fed, he offers his unique perspective on the inner workings of the Federal Reserve System during the last fifty years--writing about personalities as much as policy--based on his knowledge and observations of every Fed chairman since 1951. This new, post-financial meltdown edition offers his assessment of the Fed's action (and inaction) during the crisis and expanded coverage of the Fed in the Bernanke era. In this revised edition, Axilrod gives an account of the Fed's dramatic, even mind-bending, experiences in the great credit crisis of 2007-2009. He assesses the full range of the Fed's unusual and innovative actions during the crisis and the beginnings of its aftermath. He questions whether the Fed used its monetary and regulatory powers to full effect to minimize and contain the disruption of the nation's--and the world's--financial stability. And, in an entirely new chapter, he evaluates Bernanke's performance through his full first term (as well as the early part of his second) in light of his actions during the crisis. In later chapters he also reevaluates the image, stature, and structure of the Fed in the aftermath of the crisis and the new comprehensive financial legislation subsequently enacted.Great leadership in monetary policy, Axilrod says, is determined not by pure economic sophistication but by the ability to push through political and social barriers to achieve a paradigm shift in policy--and by the courage and bureaucratic moxie to pull it off.

Product Description: New York Times bestselling author Jay W. Richards examines the adverse effects of new credit regulations and shows policymakers, business leaders, and citizens how to fix them Jay W. Richards exposes the activists, philanthropists, and politicians who are exploiting the financial crisis to increase government control over our money and our lives...read more

Product Description: The Federal Reserve System--the central bank of the United States, better known as The Fed--has never been more controversial. Criticism has reached such levels that Congressman Ron Paul, contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, published End the Fed, with blurbs from musician Arlo Guthrie and actor Vince Vaughn...read more

Product Description: Mit qualifizierter Finanzberatung umfassend und kompetent Vertrauen schaffen! Dieses Praxisbuch begleitet Sie mit umfassenden, praxisorientierten Fallbeschreibungen im Rahmen eines ganzheitlichen Betreuungsansatzes. Es bietet Ihnen konkrete Beratungsempfehlungen, alternative Lösungsansätze und gibt Ihnen Hinweise auf Cross-Selling-Möglichkeiten...read more

In the late twentieth century a number of forces converged to create pressure for profound change in the U.S. commercial banking industry. Changes in the global economy created monetary pressures. A financially sophisticated baby boom generation fuelled the demand for investment alternatives to bank deposits and less expensive investment capital. Expanding local and cross-border economic activity stimulated demand for new financial products, services, organizational structures, and regulation. Finally, technological innovation made it possible to compete in financial services in novel ways, creating new competition and relentless pressure to improve performance. In response to these forces, the commercial banking industry in the United States has dramatically restructured. While concentration has increased, banks no longer dominate financial services. Instead, they have become part of holding companies that own a broad range of closely related financial services companies that are both complementary and competitive. Historical prohibitions against interstate banking have been liberalized as have the regulatory barriers that strictly separate banking, insurance, and securities market activities. As risk and complexity in the financial system increases and traditional sources of returns in banking diminish, pressure for further change will mount. While the facts of regulatory change in U.S. commercial banking are not entirely new, we have a limited understanding of how it actually happened. And how it happened holds important lessons for future change as well as for other banking systems that are facing similar pressures. The Invisible Hands of U.S. Commercial Banking Reform shows how to analyze incentives for economic and institutional change and then demonstrates how incentives shape beliefs and choices. Contrary to commonly held assumptions, U.S. commercial banking is governed by a closely integrated combination of markets and governments and large-scale adaptation appears to require both relatively unfettered private action and government guarantees.

Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) took effect at the start of 1994, production and trade in goods and services have become ever more integrated in the region. Banking and financial systems thus also must increasingly inform, adjudicate, transact, invest, insure, and intermediate all across North America. Presently, however, there is no single or up-to-date source of information on the banking and finance systems of current (Canada, the United States, and Mexico) and prospective (Chile) NAFTA countries. This volume presents the first report on the banking and financial structure of each of the three NAFTA countries and Chile.

In dem vorliegenden Sammelband geben renommierte Fachleute einen praxisnahen Einblick in den Prozess des Bankenratings, Voraussetzungen für eine gute Bewertung, Instrumente und Methoden der Risikoerkennung und -steuerung.

Product Description: Why did the financial scandals really happen? Why are they continuing to happen? In The Death of Corporate Reputation, Yale's Jonathan Macey reveals the real, non-intuitive reason, and offers a new path forward. For over a century law firms, investment banks, accounting firms, credit rating agencies and companies seeking regular access to U...read more

Product Description: Beneath the veneer of stability that saw Canada's banking sector through the financial crash of 2008, investigative reporter Bruce Livesey has uncovered a rampant failure of epidemic proportions. Though no large financial institution has recently gone bust in this country, white-collar criminals, scam artists, Ponzi schemers and organized crime, from the Hells Angels to the Russian mafia, know that Canada is the place in the Western world to rip off investors...read more

Product Description: Through the words of Baron Philippe Lambert we explore the impact the Lambert dynasty had on the banking sector and how the entire Lambert Family was involved in this business, as well as in the development of the railroad network and European history.

Product Description: "Central bankers worldwide welcome the recent increase of research on payment systems. This volume, providing an expert overview on this timely subject, should be required reading for us all". - Erkki Liikanen, Governor of the Bank of Finland Monetary policy has been at the centre of economic research from the early stages of economic thought, but payment system research has attracted increased academic attention only in the past decade...read more

Product Description: Practice makes perfect. Therefore the best method of mastering models is working with them. This book contains a large collection of exercises and solutions which will help explain the statistics of financial markets. These practical examples are carefully presented and provide computational solutions to specific problems, all of which are calculated using R and Matlab...read more

The subject of General Cost Structure Analysis is the quantitative analysis of cost structures with a minimum of a priori assumptions on firm technology and on firm behaviour. The study develops an innovative line of attack building on the primal characterisation of the firm's generalised shadow cost minimisation program. The resulting Flexible Cost Model (FCM) is highly conducive to modern panel data techniques and allows for a flexible specification not only of firm technology but also of firm behaviour, as shadow prices can be made input-, time- and firm-specific. FCM is applied to a panel dataset on several hundred of the largest banking institutions in the G-5 (France, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, United States) in the 1989-1996 period. The main empirical results are summarised. In particular, FCM provides new insights into the existence of scale economies in banking and an assessment of the extent of excess labour in the G-5 banking industries, particularly as a consequence of labour market rigidities in a context of rapidly declining technology prices. FCM also provides an evaluation of the sources of the cost advantage of American and British banks in comparison to Continental European banks.

Product Description: ​Im Zusammenhang mit den Finanzmarktturbulenzen rückte die Bedeutung des Liquiditätsrisikos und eines effizienten Liquiditätsrisikomanagements immer mehr in den Vordergrund. Dabei soll die Stabilität der einzelnen Banken und des gesamten Finanzsystems erreicht werden...read more

Product Description: Das Bank-Lexikon ist das Lexikon der Branche: Mehr als 7.500 Stichwörter erklären die zentralen Begriffe aus den Themenbereichen Bank, Börse, Finanzierung und informieren umfassend und praxisgerecht über alle Finanzprodukte, Finanzdienstleistungen, das Bankmanagement und die neuesten bankrechtlichen Entwicklungen...read more

Product Description: Bank Behaviour in Modern Banking presents a updated insight into key facts impacting on financial institutions after the financial crisis and highlights areas of major policy and academic interest. The book includes a selection of papers on this issue, collected from the past European Association of University Teachers of Banking and Finance Conference (otherwise known as the Wolpertinger Conference) held at the University of Valencia, Spain in September 2011...read more

Product Description: Financial institutions need to increase revenues, decrease cost and be compliant in these difficult times. To meet all these challenges they need to consider disruptive innovations. Cloud computing is one of them. It helps in introducing innovative services, re-engineer processes, improve agility and optimize value...read more