This book offers insight into international trade and foreign direct investment competitiveness in Africa. It examines two policies frequently used to enhance international competitiveness in Sub-Saharan African economies: exchange rate policy and productivity-related policy.

This book uses systemic thinking and applies it to the study of financial crises. It systematically presents how the systemic yoyo model, its thinking logic, and its methodology can be employed as a common playground and intuition to the study of money, international finance, and economic...

The latest global financial and economic crisis of 2008 has shown the need to re-examine the desirability of financial liberalization. This book is undertaking such a study on the issue of financial and market liberalization by adopting sophisticated econometric methods. It examines the effects...

Introduction -- Determinants of Institutional Quality: a Case Study of IMF Programme Countries -- Institutional Quality, Macroeconomic Stabilization and Economic Growth: a Case Study of IMF Programme Countries -- IMF Programmes and Institutional Quality Determinants: Economic Scenarios in...

Einführung und Problemstellung -- Der Devisenmarkt, Wechselkurs- und Währungssysteme -- Die monetäre Theorie -- Big Data -- Die Bedeutung von makroökonomischen Nachrichten für den Devisenhandel -- Schlussfolgerungen.

Gang der Untersuchung und methodologische Abgrenzung -- Effizienz von Devisenmarktinterventionen im makroökonomischen Kontext -- Mikrostrukturelle Erklärung der Preisbildung am Devisenmarkt -- Analyse von Devisenmarktinterventionen in Mikrostrukturmodellen -- Fazit und Ausblick.

The creation of a single monetary currency and a single monetary policy in the euro area has faced extraordinary challenges, among them the design of suitable monetary policy instruments. This book evaluates monetary policy instruments of the Eurosystem against a number of requirements. To do...

In this wide-ranging book, Wall Street legend Henry Kaufman recounts the events surrounding the catastrophic collapse of Lehman Brothers from his then vantage point on the board. He explains how, ironically, the Federal Reserve’s shortcomings contributed to its growing power. And he argues...

This book examines the macroeconomic and regulatory impact of domestic and international shocks on the South African economy resulting from the 2009 financial crisis. It also assesses the impact of the US economy’s eventual recovery from the crisis and the prospect of higher US interest rates...

Part I. Institutional Framework for Macroprudential in Islamic Banking System -- 1. Macroprudential Policy and Regulation in A Dual Banking System: An Exploratory Perspective -- 2. Doctrinal Challenge for Islamic Banking on Macroprudential Regulations: A Religion-Regulation Mismatch 2.0 -- 3....