Investigates the impact of financial technology on job creation, income distribution, and consumer welfare in China. The book also examines larger systemic issues such as monetary policy, stability of the banking sector, and international trade and payments.
The U.S. banking system, its regulation and deregulation, and especially its deposit guarantees, continue to pose complex problems. The Crisis in American Banking offers six original perspectives on this continuing crisis, drawing from modern Austrian economics and from public choice theories that have seldom been applied to contemporary banking ......
Although this volume looks at New York City, the United States' largest and most prominent international center, the issues and processes discussed represent fundamental challenges faced by cities and communities across the country, particularly at a time when many of the traditional functions of the central government are being privatized or ......
Beginning this year, federal payment recipients will receive their government benefits through electronic funds transfer (EFT)-- what most of us call direct deposit.
The guide to protect your money from fraud, phishing and scams
Rorts and Rip-Offs is your guide to understanding what you can do to minimise your exposure to white collar crime and protect your money. From unqualified tax advice to poor finance advice, dud investment schemes, online scams and more, now is the time to be alert to the techniques used to steal your money.
Assessing the potential benefits and risks of a currency union. This book, by two leading experts on economics and Africa, makes a significant analytical contribution to the debates now under way about how Economic Community of West African States could achieve and manage its currency union, andthe ramifications for the African continent.
Foreign Participation in Financial Systems in Developing Countries
Addresses the key issues of concern regarding the emerging markets, including the trends, motivations, and scope of foreign direct investment in finance; policy options that will best capture the opportunities of foreign entry; and the role of foreign institutions in e-finance innovation.
The Philosophical Fundamentals of Monetary Institutions
This book examines the characteristics of monetary institutions and the ways in which a clear understanding of money, and a sense of what we can know about money, can improve our comprehension on monetary policy. It establishes a link between abstract and theoretical aspects of monetary theory and the problems with money and banks we face today.
