This edited volume focuses specifically on the theme of financial innovation and how financial resiliency was achieved in Naples. To highlight both the achievements of the public banks of Naples and their lessons for financial resiliency, the book focuses on financial crises and how they were...

This book provides a uniquely comprehensive explanation of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis and resulting scholarly research in the context of building an agenda for reform. With the clarity provided by almost a decade of hindsight and a careful eye toward planning for prevention, Elson...

This book analyzes the set of forces driving the global financial system toward a period of radical transformation and explores the transformational challenges that lie ahead for global and regional or local banks and other financial intermediaries. It is explained how these challenges derive...

This book focuses on global financial systems. After summarising historical financial institutions, it subsequently uses economic and econometrical models to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of these institutions and their role in the history. Readers, especially international readers, will...

After tracing the causes of the global financial crisis, the book focuses on two fundamental systemic issues connected with its manifestation: financial-sector regulation and the problem of the dollar-centric international monetary system, both of which have been widely cited among the important...

A topical insider view of causes and consequences of financial crises since the Mexican collapse of 1995. The book includes a detailed exploration of recent and ongoing firestorms, including the near meltdown of the global financial system and the euro crisis and suggests ways to save the...

This book advocates a holistic reform of the current monetary and financial system dealing with the issues of money creation, central banks, loans, stock markets, tax justice, pension security and the international monetary system - “Bretton Woods II”. Its innovative approach presents...

1 Introduction -- 2 Financial Power and the Developmental State -- 3 Financial Repression and Structural Financial Power -- 4 Financial Repression and Currency Internationalization -- 5 Financial Repression and Relational Financial Power -- 6 Developmental States in the Bretton Woods...

Part I- The Crisis: Micro-Macro Perspective -- Chapter1- Pathology of the Crisis -- Chapter 2- Sub-Prime Debt Imbroglio : Risks-Rewards of Financial Sophistication -- Chapter 3- Policy Response -- Chapter 4- Why Is the Economy Not Taking Off? -- Chapter 5- Euro-Sclerosis: Causation and Control...

Forward by H.K. Holdaway, A/g Executive Director (International) Australian Treasury -- Preface by Mr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia -- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: The Global Financial Crisis - Revisiting Global Governance.- Chapter 2. Revisiting Global Governance (Soumya Kanti Ghosh, Bibekananda...