Handbook of Critical Issues in Finance

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Jan Toporowski, Jo Michell
Edward Elgar Publishing, Jan 1, 2012 - Business & Economics - 326 pages
This vital new Handbook is an authoritative volume presenting key issues in finance that have been widely discussed in the financial markets but have been neglected in textbooks and the usual compilations of conventional academic wisdom. A wide range of t
 

Contents

Introduction
1
1 Asian monetary union
4
2 Bad banks
13
3 Bank regulation
19
4 Capital controls
26
5 Capital market inflation
33
6 Central bank policy
38
7 Central banks
43
23 International banking
165
24 International finance
172
25 Islamic banking
180
26 John Maynard Keynes
187
27 Limited liability
193
28 Liquidity
201
29 Karl Marx
211
30 The methodology of finance
218

8 Commodity markets
49
9 Cooperative banking
56
10 Credit cycles
66
11 Emerging markets
77
12 The exchange rate
85
13 Financial crises
93
14 Financial fragility
98
15 Financial Keynesianism
105
16 Financial markets in developing countries
113
17 Financialization
121
18 The flow of funds
127
19 The Franc Zone
135
20 Globalization
139
21 Hedge funds
145
22 The Iceland crisis
151
31 Microfinance
225
32 Hyman P Minsky
237
33 Money in finance
243
34 Money manager capitalism
254
35 Option pricing models
263
36 Overcapitalization
270
37 Private equity funds
274
38 Quantitative easing
279
39 Risk
283
40 Securitization
289
41 Tax havens
296
42 Transnational companies and finance
301
43 Thorstein Veblen
308
Index
317
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