Main description: The efficiency, safety, and soundness of financial markets depend on the operation of core infrastructure--exchanges, central counter-parties, and central securities depositories. How these institutions are governed critically affects their performance. Yet, despite their...

Using the same presentation and detail that has earned her such wide-ranging acclaim for her previous books, Padma Desai explains in a course-friendly way the complexities of economic policy and financial reform. She merges a compelling narrative with scholarly research to teach and to engage...

"This book explores how ethics and the moral context of business has evolved historically in the influential management theories and concepts. It looks at how managerial thought accommodates morality, values and ethics and demonstrates the emerging patterns of ethical conduct to illustrate how...

1. The Role of Finance in Achieving Sustainability -- 2. The Value and Limits of Financial Accounting -- 3. Financial Markets and Pricing -- 4. Discounting and Cost-Benefit Analysis -- 5. The Value of Environmental Accounting in Public Decision Making -- 6. The Monetization of Natural Capital in...

Chapter 1. An Overview of Fintech -- Chapter 2. Macroeconomics and Fintech -- Chapter 3. Crypto Assets (Crypto Currencies) and Central Bank Digital Currencies -- Chapter 4. Consumer behavior and Marketing in Fintech -- Chapter 5. Effects of Fintech on Existing Financial Institutions -- Chapter...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Essential History and Fundamental Purposes -- Chapter 3: The Financial System -- Chapter 4: Capital in the Twenty-First Century -- Chapter 5: The Conventional Narrative: Deconstructed -- Chapter 6: Commercial Banks Create Money Out of Nothing -- Chapter 7:...

In this wide-ranging study, Ghassan Moazzin sheds critical new light on the history of foreign banks in late 19th and early 20th century China, a time period that saw a substantial influx of foreign financial institutions into China and a rapid increase of both China's foreign trade and its...