The Origins And Development Of Financial Markets And Institutions

Author : Jeremy Atack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139477048
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions written by Jeremy Atack and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collectively, mankind has never had it so good despite periodic economic crises of which the current sub-prime crisis is merely the latest example. Much of this success is attributable to the increasing efficiency of the world's financial institutions as finance has proved to be one of the most important causal factors in economic performance. In a series of insightful essays, financial and economic historians examine how financial innovations from the seventeenth century to the present have continually challenged established institutional arrangements, forcing change and adaptation by governments, financial intermediaries, and financial markets. Where these have been successful, wealth creation and growth have followed. When they failed, growth slowed and sometimes economic decline has followed. These essays illustrate the difficulties of co-ordinating financial innovations in order to sustain their benefits for the wider economy, a theme that will be of interest to policy makers as well as economic historians.

Author : Howard Bodenhorn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521669993
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Banking in Antebellum America written by Howard Bodenhorn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Bodenhorn reveals how America was served by an efficient system of financial intermediaries by the mid-nineteenth century.

Author : Jakob de Haan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110702594X
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Financial Markets and Institutions written by Jakob de Haan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second edition of a successful textbook that provides an insightful analysis of the world financial system.

Author : Ben Hunt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780170188449
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Financial Institutions and Markets written by Ben Hunt and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly updated, this new sixth edition of Financial Institutions and Markets focuses on Australiaa s financial system, while retaining the structure of the successful fifth edition. It examines the financial systema s three main functions a settlement, flow-of-funds and risk transfer a and provides a clear and comprehensive integrated account of the activities of Australiaa s financial institutions and markets, including the risks they face and the instruments they use. As well, the major capital and foreign exchange markets and the markets for derivatives (and their use as hedging instruments) are discussed. This new 6th edition covers recent financial innovations, such as high-frequency trading in the share market and APRAa s adoption of Basel II (and Basel III) a an explanation of how the RBA assesses the financial systema s stability. It also includes new a Industry Insightsa and a Practical Applicationsa that illustrate specific topics, such as the role of margin loans and short selling in the demise of ABC Learning. The main update for this new edition has been the development of a Lessons from the GFCa that are designed to complement the booka s explanations of a range of topics, such as the use of leverage, lending for housing, securitisation, the role of the inter-bank market, the pricing of risk in bond markets and the role of speculation in the market for Australian dollar.

Author : Mark Casson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781849803892
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Markets and Market Institutions written by Mark Casson and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative collection fills the gap by reprinting key papers analysing the evolution of markets over the past millennium.

Author : Anne L. Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107406209
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of English Financial Markets written by Anne L. Murphy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late seventeenth century was a crucial period in English financial history. A host of joint-stock companies emerged offering the opportunity for investment in projects ranging from the manufacture of paper to the search for sunken treasure. Driven by the demands of the Nine Years' War, the state also employed innovative tactics to attract money, its most famous scheme being the incorporation of the Bank of England. This book provides a comprehensive study of the choices and actions of the investors who enthusiastically embraced London's new financial market. It highlights the interactions between public and private finance, looks at how information circulated around the market and was used by speculators and investors, and documents the establishment of the institutions - the Bank of England, the national debt and an active secondary market in that debt - on which England's financial system was built.

Author : Even Lange
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351952935
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Centres and Peripheries in Banking written by Even Lange and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a broad investigation into the relationship between the centre and the periphery in banking. Focusing on the historical development of financial markets, from their emergence in the early modern period to today's global financial and capital markets, the chapters investigate how local, national and international relationships have affected and helped shape the banking industry over three-hundred years. This wide-ranging discussion in time and place is provided by a group of international experts, encompassing bankers, economists, economic historians and historians, and will be of interest to all those with a scholarly or professional interest in the development of financial institutions.

Author : Linda Allen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471130494
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital Markets and Institutions written by Linda Allen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1997-01-31 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for Junior/Senior/MBA course in Financial Markets, Capital Markets and Institutions. Using an international focus, this text integrates the financial markets with the activities of financial intermediaries. This approach enables students to understand the role of financial intermediaries in the development of financial markets. Throughout the text, the emphasis is on "how things are done on the street." The origins, major participants, pricing and settlements and typical transactions for all financial markets are also included.

Author : Gerard Caprio
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0123978734
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Key Global Financial Markets, Institutions, and Infrastructure written by Gerard Caprio and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title begins its description of how we created a financially-intergrated world by first examining the history of financial globalization, from Roman practices and Ottoman finance to Chinese standards, the beginnings of corporate practices, and the advent of efforts to safeguard financial stability.

Author : Robert E. Wright
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226910296
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Wall Street written by Robert E. Wright and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Americans think of investment and finance, they think of Wall Street—though this was not always the case. During the dawn of the Republic, Philadelphia was the center of American finance. The first stock exchange in the nation was founded there in 1790, and around it the bustling thoroughfare known as Chestnut Street was home to the nation's most powerful financial institutions. The First Wall Street recounts the fascinating history of Chestnut Street and its forgotten role in the birth of American finance. According to Robert E. Wright, Philadelphia, known for its cultivation of liberty and freedom, blossomed into a financial epicenter during the nation's colonial period. The continent's most prodigious minds and talented financiers flocked to Philly in droves, and by the eve of the Revolution, the Quaker City was the most financially sophisticated region in North America. The First Wall Street reveals how the city played a leading role in the financing of the American Revolution and emerged from that titanic struggle with not just the wealth it forged in the crucible of war, but an invaluable amount of human capital as well. This capital helped make Philadelphia home to the Bank of the United States, the U.S. Mint, an active securities exchange, and several banks and insurance companies—all clustered in or around Chestnut Street. But as the decades passed, financial institutions were lured to New York, and by the late 1820s only the powerful Second Bank of the United States upheld Philadelphia's financial stature. But when Andrew Jackson vetoed its charter, he sealed the fate of Chestnut Street forever—and of Wall Street too. Finely nuanced and elegantly written, The First Wall Street will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the United States and the origins of its unrivaled economy.