This book assesses the 2008-2009 financial crisis and its ramifications for the global economy from a multidisciplinary perspective. Current market conditions and systemic issues pose a risk to financial stability and sustained market access for emerging market borrowers. The volatile...

Section I: Global Issues in Economics and Finance -- Section II: Risk Management and Auditing -- Section III: Competitiveness and Management in Financial Institutions -- Section IV: Custom Finance in Theory and Practice.

Section I: Globalization and Financial Crisis -- Section II: International Trade and Banking -- Section III: Financial Innovations and Regulations -- Section IV: Behavioral Finance and Risk Assessment.

Emissions trading challenges the management of companies in an entirely new manner: Not only does it, like other market-based environmental policy instruments, allow for a bigger flexibility in management decisions concerning emission issues. More importantly, it shifts the mode of governance of...

Emissions trading (ET) challenges business managers in an entirely new manner, changing the criteria by which environmental policy steers management decisions from hierarchical to monetary. The 24 contributions to this volume discuss ET theoretically and empirically in these broad topic areas:...