Continuing technological advances, coupled with the removal of controls on deposit interest rates and barriers to interstate bank expansion, have ushered in a new age of competition among banks themselves and between banks and other types of financial institutions. What Should Banks Do? offers a new and controversial proposal for carefully ......
How Fintech Firms are Using Mobile and Blockchain Technologies to Create
An extensive discussion on thethird generation Internet, ValueWeb, allowing consumers and machines to connectand share value in real time and for free.
Examines the evolution of US policy toward the World Bank and the impact of the United States on the institution's policies and operations. Beginning with the US role in the start-up of the Bank, Catherine Gwin describes the ebb and flow of the US support.
The potential failure of a large bank presents vexing questions for policymakers. It poses significant risks to other financial institutions, to the financial system as a whole, and possibly to the economic and social order.
Exploring the function of money as a medium of exchange and a store of value, this major work provides a comprehensive introduction to the pure theory of money and monetary policy. Jurg Niehans considers his subject in both its microeconomic and macroeconomic aspects. The analysis thus extends from the individual demand for money to monetary ......
Describes and analyses the relationship between the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 to the present. Jacques J. Polak focuses primarily on this period from the 1970s when both the Fund and the Bank strove to meet developing countries' pressing needs for macroeconomic stabilization and ......
In The Future of State-Owned Financial Institutions: Policy and Practice noted experts discuss the challenges presented by state-owned financial institutions and offer cross-disciplinary solutions for policymakers and banking regulators.
This book rejects the modern tendency to evaluate banking regulation without reference to monetary theory by positioning the economic analysis of banking regulation within monetary economics.
This multidisciplinary book covers Islamic economic, financial, legal, and socio-political systems, insurance (takaful), and commercial jurisprudence. It examines the dichotomies and similarities between Islamic and conventional financial systems and suggests future roles and governance of Islamic financial institutions.