The actual world economic crisis has proven once more that the banks are the primary force for an economic growth or for a recession. This major economic crisis has begun, in the first instance, at the banks level, there for in the banking system has developed a great void of banking...

The economy of decline, with the type of problems that characterised a big amount of the economic activity of the 1930s, aspects that have not been met until now, has made a forceful comeback, taking into consideration the fact that 15-16 years ago nobody would have thought that the modern...

Staffing a collection call centre, in a period of crisis, requires more than hiring the most qualified applicants. Collection managers must define a recruiting, hiring and staffing plan to meet inbound call service levels and maximize outbound calling during optimal customer contact times,...

This is the English language version of the entry on ‘Money’ (‘Geld’) in the ‘Historisch Kritisch Wörterbuch des Marxismus’, a comprehensive dictionary of Marxist terminology being produced as an accompaniment to the Marx-Engels-Gesamt-Arbeite (Marx-Engels collected works), a...

Volume LV/Fourth Issue of the Public Finance Quarterly, as a quasi thematic edition, contained five articles focusing on the recent financial crisis. The topic of our paper is also the crisis; without concentrating on individual countries or groups of countries, we focus on the world economy and...

It is being acknowledged that a macro prudential perspective is critical in designing and pursuing micro prudential regulation of institutions and markets. Two distinct but highly inter-related constructs have come to epitomize this post-crisis framework: macro prudential regulation and systemic...