This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the ways that politics and financial markets impact one another. In this relationship, politics is the ultimate controlling force. The kinds and prices of financial instruments that get traded and the individuals and institutions that get to trade...

Introduction -- Part I -- Historical Perspectives on Money, Financial Institutions and Markets -- What Gives Money Its Value? -- From Gold to Paper -- What is Driving the Financial World Today? -- Part II Banking: Asset & Liability Management; Banking Supervision & Regulation -- How Are Banks...

Dealing with all aspects of risk management that have undergone significant innovation in recent years, this book aims at being a reference work in its field. Different to other books on the topic, it addresses the challenges and opportunities facing the different risk management types in banks,...

Insiderhandel im Rahmen von Kapitalmarktgeschäften ist immer wieder Gegenstand öffentlicher Diskussionen. Björn Dymke analysiert Kapitalmarkttransaktionen deutscher Unternehmensinsidern mit Wertpapieren der von ihnen geleiteten Unternehmen, sogenannte Directors’ Dealings. Er untersucht, ob...

Greater transparency in central bank operations is the most dramatic change in the conduct of monetary policy in recent years. In this paper we present new information on its extent and effects. We show that the trend is general: a large number of central banks have moved in the direction of...