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Main description: Should South Africa be responsible for apartheid-era debt? Should Iraq be tied to Saddam Hussein's excesses? Odette Lienau shows that sovereign debt continuity--the rule that nations must repay loans even after a regime change--relies on absolutist ideas, and explains why the...
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Biographical note: KuranTimur: Timur Kuran is professor of economics and political science and the Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. He is the author of "Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism" (Princeton).
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Main description: In 2004, Spain's Banco Santander purchased Britain's Abbey National Bank in a deal valued at fifteen billion dollars--an acquisition that made Santander one of the ten largest financial institutions in the world. Here, Mauro Guillén and Adrian Tschoegl tackle the question of...
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Few periods in history compare to the Great Depression. Stock market crashes, bread lines, bank runs, and wild currency speculation were worldwide phenomena--all occurring with war looming in the background. This period has provided economists with a marvelous laboratory for studying the links...
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Die Geschichte der Banken ist bis dato kein bevorzugter Forschungsgegenstand der Historiker, obwohl die Archive und … zuvor in der Geschichte die Politik zu beherrschen scheint. Erstmals liegt nun - basierend auf bis dato unbekannten und … unbearbeiteten Quellen - eine Geschichte des Bankensektors und hier insbesondere der Privatbanken zwischen 1938 und 1945 sowie in den …
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