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As the globalization of financial markets continues, we urgently need to understand the crises that have plagued these markets and the policies best suited to preventing such crises in the future. In this book, a prominent group of economists and policymakers blend conceptual analysis and policy...

Clearing houses, or CCPs, were among the very few organisations to emerge from the global financial crisis with their standing enhanced. In the chaotic aftermath of the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, they successfully completed trades worth trillions of dollars in a multitude of financial...

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Focusing on Malaysia's shifting economic profile and position, this book offers new insights and perspectives to scholars and researchers on a range of new developments impacting on growth, such as the effects of the digital economy on job creation and the threats of environmental degradation...

Intro -- FINANCIAL GLOBALIZATION -- FINANCIAL GLOBALIZATION -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 GLOBALIZATION AND INFLATION DYNAMICS: THE IMPACT OF INCREASED COMPETITION -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. HAS THE SLOPE OF THE PHILLIPS CURVE CHANGED? -- 3. CHANNELS OF GLOBALIZATION EFFECTS ON...

Intro -- JOINT VENTURES,MERGERS ANDACQUISITIONS, AND CAPITAL FLOW -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- RESEARCH AND REVIEW STUDIES -- CORPORATE JOINT VENTURES:MARKET EVIDENCE -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORETICAL DISCUSSION AND HYPOTHESIS DEVELOPMENT -- DATA,METHODOLOGY AND DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS -- EMPIRICAL...

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE MAIN STYLIZED FACTS: AGGREGATE DATA -- III. THE MAIN STYLIZED FACTS: BILATERAL DATA -- IV. CAPITAL FLOWS AND EXTERNAL ADJUSTMENT -- V. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES.