The traditional role of a bank was to transfer funds from savers to investors, engaging in maturity transformation, screening for borrower risk and monitoring for borrower effort in doing so. A typical loan contract was set up along six simple dimensions: the amount, the interest rate, the...

This book is about China’s economy transformation. Currently, China’s macro-leverage ratio has been effectively controlled, the central market interest rate (one year fixed interest rate) has gone down, and liquidity is now relatively abundant. However, financial institutions are generally...

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of foreign-owned banks for credit growth, financial stability and economic growth in the post-communist European countries. Using data covering 20 countries over the period from 1995 to 2015, the authors analyse the evolution of banking sectors...

1. Introduction: mortgages and annuities in historical perspective -- 2. Mortgages and the English peasantry c.1250-c.1350 -- 3. Mortgages raised by rural English copyhold tenants 1605-1735 -- 4. Mortgages and the Kentish yeoman in the seventeenth century -- 5. Why the equity of redemption? 6....

1. CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Activities and Impact on Firm Value: The Case of Technology Company Group -- 2. Financial determinants of development in the process of gmina management in the Silesian Voivodeship in Poland -- 3. Objective assumptions for the Monte Carlo simulation when...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical Foundations -- Chapter 2: Varieties or Diversity of Capitalism? -- Chapter 3: Dependent Capitalism -- Chapter 4: Dependent Monetary Regime -- Part II: Empirical And Historical Perspectives -- Chapter 5: Dependent Capitalism in Central and Eastern...

1. Introduction -- 2. Rural Tourism as a Tool for Sustainable Development - Lessons Learned in Estonia -- 3. From Communism to Capitalism: The Transition of Bulgarian Tourism Sector and Contemporary Discourses -- 4. From Centrally-Driven Variations to Market-Driven Development: Models of Urban...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Overview of Pension Systems -- Chapter 3. Socio-Economic and Medical Approaches to Pensions Systems -- Chapter 4. Modeling the Impact of Socio-Economic and Medical Characteristics on Public Pension Systems in Central and Eastern European Countries -- Chapter...

Chapter 1 Changes in the Domestic and International Economy -- Chapter 2 Status of Chinese Banks’ Internationalization -- Chapter 3. Current Situation of Foreign Banks’ Internationalization -- Chapter 4 Comparison of the overseas expansion between Chinese and Foreign Banks -- Chapter 5 Risk...

Introduction -- Chapter 1. Euromarkets and Debt Crisis -- Chapter 2. Mexican Banks Go Abroad -- Chapter 3. Deeper into Foreign Finance -- Chapter 4. The Condition of Mexican Banking -- Chapter 5. International Business Risks -- Chapter 6. Banks and Debt Negotiations -- Conclusion