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Assembles theoretical contributions to monetary theory, banking and finance. This book includes papers spanning themes from monetary policy to the optimal design of financial systems, and from the study of the causes of financial crises to payment systems design. It serves as a reference to researchers interested in the study of financial systems.
This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. These papers in this volume all focus on the theme of a 2009 conference on central bank liquidity tools organized by the Fed. Reserve Bank of NY: the evaluation of central bank programs implemented to address funding shortages in the markets. Contents: (1) Conf. Proceedings; (2) Central Bank Liquidity Tools: Central Bank Tools and Liquidity Shortages; Provision of Liquidity through the Primary Credit Facility during the Financial Crisis; Financial Amplification Mechanisms and the Fed. Reserve¿s Supply of Liquidity during the Financial Crisis; (3) Perspectives on Regulatory Reform: Improving Credit Conditions through the Release of Info.; Systemic Risk and Deposit Insur. Premiums; Solving the Present Crisis and Managing the Leverage Cycle.
Social choices, about expenditures on government programs, or about public policy more broadly, or indeed from any conceivable set of alternatives, are determined by politics. This book is a collection of essays that tie together the fields spanned by Jeffrey S. Banks' research on this subject. It examines the strategic aspects of political decision-making, including the choices of voters in committees, the positioning of candidates in electoral campaigns, and the behavior of parties in legislatures. The chapters of this book contribute to the theory of voting with incomplete information, to the literature on Downsian and probabilistic voting models of elections, to the theory of social choice in distributive environments, and to the theory of optimal dynamic decision-making. The essays employ a spectrum of research methods, from game-theoretic analysis, to empirical investigation, to experimental testing.
Although postcolonialism has emerged as one of the most significant theoretical movements in literary and cultural studies, it has paid scant attention to the importance of trade and trade relations to debates about culture. Focusing on the past two centuries, this volume investigates the links among trade, colonialism, and forms of representation, posing the question, 'What is the historical or modern relationship between economic inequality and imperial patterns of representation and reading?' Rather than dealing exclusively with a particular industry or type of industry, the contributors take up the issue of how various economies have been represented in Aboriginal art; in literature by N...
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