Product Description: Trade Agreements and Financial Services examines the cross-border agreements that have historically been focused on the trade of merchandise goods. Increasingly, emphasis is being placed on the provision of cross-border services. Notable among these are financial services...read more

Product Description: Trade Agreements and Financial Services examines the cross-border agreements that have historically been focused on the trade of merchandise goods. Increasingly, emphasis is being placed on the provision of cross-border services. Notable among these are financial services...read more

Product Description: A broad-based examination of the changes occurring in financial services. The forces of privatization and securitization are but two of the factors that are changing the way financial services are delivered. Technology has enabled direct sale of securities to ultimate investors in ways that have not been possible until now...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Global Financial Institutions and Markets is the first financial institutions and markets text to thoroughly integrate international coverage throughout. Using a developmental perspective, the book compares and contrasts the structure and trends of both US and international financial markets and institutions. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book analyzes the extent to which banks and industry have worked together to promote economic growth. The countries examined are the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, China, Hong Kong, and Korea. This is an important analysis, because so many developing countries have undertaken market-oriented plans for development...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This revised and updated edition includes a description of Financial Accounting Standards Board statements on securities (#15), derivatives (#105 & #119), impaired loans (#114 & #118), and mortgage servicing rights (#122). The Bank Valuation Handbook coverage includes: effect of the Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking Act on bank mergers; step-by-step explanation to estimating the bank's real market value; specific models for virtually every line on the balance sheet and includes examples of implementation...read more

Product Description: Bank Asset/Liability Management is a comprehensive treatment of all the issues related to managing bank portfolios of liquid assets, securities, loans and liabilities, and capital. The book begins with a close examination of bank profitability and its components, discussing the customary measures that form the basis for bank-to-bank comparisons...read more

Product Description: Designed for undergraduate finance students, this text addresses how financial institutions have evolved and why they are changing. Although mathematical formulae are included, Johnson's book is more descriptive than analytical, and it establishes the link between financial institutions and economic development...read more

Product Description: In the future, some regions of the world will probably experience vigorous economic growth, while others struggle to survive. Unless the United States recognizes these probabilities and the implications of them, standards of living in this country will continue to decline...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)