Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- 1 Taxation and Regulation of the Financial Sector -- Part I: Interplay of Taxation and Regulation Policies for the Financial Sector -- 2 New Bank Taxes: Why and What Will Be the Effects? -- 3 Taxes, Banks, and Financial Stability -- 4 Taxation and...

BANKING ON GROWTHMODELS -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Interactions between China's Growth Model and the Financial System -- 2. Interests, Ideas, Institutions, and the Politics of Banking and Economic Reform in China -- 3. Growth...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Outline contents -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Table of Legislation -- Part A Introduction -- 1 Sources of EU financial law -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 EU statutes and their hierarchy -- 1.2.1 The Treaties -- 1.2.2 Regulations and...

The past few years have shown that risks in banking can impose significant costs on the economy. Many claim, however, that a safer banking system would require sacrificing lending and economic growth. The Bankers' New Clothes examines this claim and the narratives used by bankers, politicians,...

Key Features:Studies the key role of bank lending as possible triggers of financial crisesExamines whether the risk implied by VAR measures is adequately priced in equity returns of financial institutionsProvides comparative case study on international Joint Ventures and the value creation...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- List of Acronyms -- 1. Financial Systems and Models of Capitalism -- I. Organization of the Banking Sector and Its Relations to Industry -- 2. Origins and Evolution of the Federalist Banking System -- 3. Anglo-Saxonization of the...

Key Features:Extensive discussion of the current trends of M&As in bankingComprehensive analysis of the motives of M&AsExtensive presentation and comparison of several statistical and computational methodologies for analyzing and predicting M&AsEmpirical results on the use of existing...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Challenge and response: North American firms in East Asia -- Persistent adaptability as survival strategy for MNCs in emerging markets: The case of Nortel Networks in China -- Establishing a successful joint venture: Moore Business Forms in Japan -- Employee...

Social Banking describes a way of value-driven banking that has a positive social and ecological impact at its heart, as well as its own economic sustainability. Although it has a long and successful history, it has arguably never been more topical than it is now in the aftermath of the latest...

In business, as in other aspects of life, we learn and grow from the examples set by others. Imitation can lead to innovation. But in order to grow innovatively, how do businesses decide what firms to imitate? And how do they choose what practices to follow? Learning by Example takes an...