Product Description: This book is a collection of papers presented in the conference held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago in September 2010, that examines the role of macroprudential regulation in the financial industry. Shocked by the experience of the last few years, many argue that the more traditional microprudential regulatory tools are inadequate to create a safe and stable financial system...read more

Product Description: This study investigates the relationship between financial sector development and progress in reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It assesses the contribution of countries' financial sector development to achieving the MDGs...read more

'A Reader in International Corporate Finance' offers an overview of current thinking on six topics: law and finance, corporate governance, banking, capital markets, capital structure and financing constraints, and the political economy of finance. This collection of 23 of the most influential articles published in the period 2000-2006 reflects two new trends: • interest in international aspects of corporate finance, particularly specific to emerging markets, • awareness of the importance of institutions in explaining global differences in corporate finance.

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Product Description: This book focuses on the principles of and practical approaches to addressing the public policy trade-off involved in systemic corporate and financial sector crises and the lessons learned from the changes taking place in bankruptcy frameworks around the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: East Asian corporations differ from their counterparts in other countries in important ways. Before the recent financial crisis these differences were viewed as one of the reasons for the success of East Asian economies. The crisis altered that view, and many scholars now argue that the weak corporate governance and financing structures of East Asian corporations are partly to blame for the recent crisis...read more

Product Description: Recent developments have raised some concerns about the quality of banking systems in East Asia. This analytical report shows that East Asia's financial sector is more robust than often thought and that the region's countries must develop their own financial infrastructure to sustain growth...read more

Product Description: Primary commodities represent more than one-half of the export earnings of many developing countries. The large fluctuations that can occur in the prices of such commodities are therefore a main economic difficulty for these countries...read more