This book examines the need for greater legal coherence within international trade negotiations between the European Union (EU) and external trade relations. An introspective analysis of EU trade law and policy is presented that highlights the complex issue of EU unity. A particular focus is...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part 1: The Regulation of Cross-Border Finance -- Chapter 2: Financial Regulation and Systemic risk -- Chapter 3: The Regulation of Globalized Finance -- Part 2: Cross-Border Regulation in the EU: The Passport and the Equivalence Regime -- Chapter 4: The Passport...

This book focuses on forward lease sukuk, which is one of the most viable and dynamic Shari’ah-compliant instruments in the Islamic capital market. The idea of forward lease sukuk is to raise funds from non-existent assets whose subject matter does not exist at the time of the sukuk issuance....

Global liquidity as a new trend in international capital flows -- Destination of Global Liquidity before the Global Financial Crisis: Role of Foreign Bank Presence and the EU Effect -- Global Liquidity and Reallocation of Domestic Credit -- Global Financial Crisis and Demand for the US Dollar as...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of both national and regional trade facilitation capacities, issues, challenges and lessons, with a special interest in sustainably advancing West Africa’s regional trade facilitation agenda. It examines the contributions of trade facilitation...

“This book provides an accessible, yet formal framework to understand how housing bubbles arise, their international dimension, their consequences, and ways to prevent them.” Òscar Jordà, University of California, Davis, USA “Basco’s analysis blends, in a very rigorous but enjoyable...

This book compares the experiences of the Philippines and Vietnam to gain insight into how openness to trade and financing can increase prosperity. In contrast, theoretical and empirical work in the 20th and early 21st centuries have returned mixed results regarding this assertion. The book also...