Restructuring the balance sheets of Western governments, banks and households is an important issue in the recovery after the recent crisis. Chorafas' latest book focuses on sovereign debt, sovereign risk and the developing economic and financial business climate and explains why the year of the...

Die kommunale Verschuldung und die daraus resultierende Zinsbelastung nehmen stetig zu, so dass es einer Vorgehensweise bedarf, welche entweder die Zinslast senkt oder sie zumindest mit ihren Risiken transparent macht, wenn die Gemeinden langfristig handlungsfähig bleiben wollen. Johannes...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Public Debt Management: Reflections on Strategy & Structure -- Chapter 3. Cash Management System -- Chapter 4. Debt Management by Central Government -- Chapter 5. Financial Regulation and Public Debt Management -- Chapter 6. Cash and Debt Management in --...

The European public debt problem was in the making long before the 2007-2009 recession, as budget deficits had become endemic. A similar crisis is now developing in America, where the same fundamental causes have been at work. The Public Debt Problem analyzes the situation of public debts in...

Humangenetische Ressourcen sind Gegenstand wichtiger Spitzenforschung im 21. Jahrhundert. Die Auswirkungen populationsgenetischer Projekte und der neuen Erkenntnisse auf die Menschheit werden intensiv diskutiert. María Cristina Blohm untersucht den Zugang zu humangenetischen Ressourcen...

Corporate failures and accounting scandals had shaken the foundations of investors’ confidence in the transparency, integrity and accountability of corporations and financial markets. There had also been public disquiet about the role of professional auditors and audit firms, who had been...

1 Introduction -- 2 General Issues in Bankruptcy Law -- 3 Are Banks Special? Implications for Bank Bankruptcy Law -- 4 Systemic Crises -- 5 General Issues on the structure of Banking Industry -- 6 Current Bank Bankruptcy Regimes and Recent Developments -- 7 Optimal Design of Bank Bankruptcy Law...

Part I: US Growth Policies in the Election Year -- Part II: Assessing the Impact of Labor Market Reforms -- Part III: Imbalances, Tensions and Possible Readjustments: Evidence from Intertemporal Accounting and the Financial Accounts -- Part IV: G20, Global Governance and Regional Integration --...

Das Buch stellt auf leicht verständliche und anschauliche Weise Irrtümer im Bereich der Geldtheorien dar und erläutert die fatalen Folgen geldtheoretischer Fehleinschätzungen und ordnungspolitischer Verstöße für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Orientiert an der Konjunkturtheorie Friedrich A....