This book provides a detailed analysis of the main innovations and impacts associated with the package of European legislation comprising MiFID II and MiFIR, which constitutes a pillar of the EU's "single rulebook" for financial regulation. Adopting a research-oriented approach, the authors also...

"Davies's book examines the financial panics of 1873, considering both the financial speculations born of exuberance that led to these panics and the interpretative speculations born of the crises, and exploring what this in turn reveals about contemporary notions of the world economy and...

"How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Patrick Condon, the simple answer is that land has become an asset rather than a utility. If the rich only indulged themselves with gold, jewels, and art, we wouldn’t have a global housing...

Verl.Beschr.: Das Finanzmagazin Forbes nannte Charles MacKays Werk das ?wichtigste Buch, das je über Investments geschrieben worden ist?. Der Leser erfährt authentisch und äusserst unterhaltsam alles über den Tulpenwahn in Holland von 1634 bis 1637, John Laws grosses Mississippi-Projekt von...

In the winter 2011/12 a wave of internal capital .ight prompted the ECB to abandon its exit strategy and to announce an unprecedented monetary expansion. We analyze this episode in several dimensions: (i) by providing an event-study analysis covering key variables from national central...