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From a historical point of view, the main activity of investment banks is what today we call security underwriting. Investment banks buy securities, such as bonds and stocks, from an issuer and then sell them to the ?nal investors. In the eighteenth century, the main securities were bonds issued by governments. The way these bonds were priced and placed is extraordinarily similar to the system that inve- ment banks still use nowadays. When a government wanted to issue new bonds, it negotiated with a few prominent “middlemen” (today we would call them investment bankers). The middlemen agreed to take a fraction of the bonds: they accepted to do so only after having canvassed a list of peo...
The second European edition of Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy provides comprehensive coverage of financial markets and corporate finance, brought to life by real world examples, cases and insights. Placed in a truly international context, this new and updated edition takes an academic and practical view-point to guide students through the challenges of studying and practicing finance. Aimed specifically at an international audience, this edition boasts hundreds of references to new and relevant non-US research papers from top finance journals. Whilst retaining the well respected structure of the successful US text, Professor David Hillier has also made a number of additions which include: Fully updated research, data and examples in every chapter. Coverage of the global financial crisis, the impact it made on the financial markets and the lessons being learnt by the finance industry. A stronger emphasis on corporate governance and agency theory. Updates on accounting standards, bankruptcy laws, tax rules and tax systems.
Public-Private Partnerships for Infrastructure and Business Funding is ideal for scholars and practitioners who work in the field of public policy design and implementation, finance and banking, and economic development.
Virtually all large banks and other financial institutions in the UK and internationally are public limited liability companies whose shares are listed on one or several stock exchanges. As such, their corporate governance and, in particular, the incentives faced by their directors and senior managers are to a significant extent determined by corporate and securities law rules such as directors’ duties, directors’ liability in insolvency, takeover regulation, disclosure obligations, shareholder rights and rules on executive remuneration. At the same time, systemically important financial institutions in the UK are licensed, regulated and supervised by the Prudential Regulation Authority ...
Hukum Pasar Modal memberi gambaran mengenai regulasi pasar modal dan berbagai aspek pasar modal yang dinamis. Penyajiannya merupakan jawaban dari kebutuhan pengajar dan mahasiswa hukum pasar modal atas buku ajar yang lengkap dan komprehensif. Diawali dengan tinjauan umum pasar modal, kelembagaan pasar modal, Efek yang diperdagangkan di pasar modal, hingga pembahasan prinsip keterbukaan informasi (disclosure principle), Reksa Dana, dan aksi korporasi (corporate action), semuanya disajikan secara sistematis. Tidak ketinggalan, sebagai penutup diuraikan pelanggaran dan kejahatan di pasar modal, berikut bentuk serta penegakan hukumnya. Buku persembahan penerbit PrenadaMediaGroup
This book examines the transgressions of the credit rating agencies before, during and after the recent financial crisis. It proposes that by restricting the agencies’ ability to offer ancillary services there stands the opportunity to limit, in an achievable and practical manner, the potentially negative effect that the Big Three rating agencies – Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch – may have upon the financial sector and society moreover. The book contains an extensive and in-depth discussion about how the agencies ascended to their current position, why they were able to do so and ultimately their behaviour once their position was cemented. This work offers a new framework for...
From Nobel Prize–winning economist Jean Tirole, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in society When Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter how distant from his own areas of research. His transformation from academic economist to public intellectual prompted him to reflect further on the role economists and their discipline play in society. The result is Economics for the Common Good, a passionate manifesto for a world in which economics, far from being a "dismal science," is a positive force for the common good. Economists are rewarded for wri...
La sconcertante storia del più grave scandalo italiano di malafinanza creativa, con i documenti e le responsabilità che i poteri forti vogliono coprire. casodivaniaunicredit@libero.it Un’azienda del Sud, sana e in crescita, viene dichiarata fallita nel 2011: il più grande stabilimento della zona industriale di Bari diventa preda dei vandali e più di quattrocento dipendenti perdono il lavoro. I salotti della Divania non attraverseranno più l’oceano per arrivare nelle case degli americani. La causa della rovina di Divania per gli inquirenti è da ricercare tra gli algoritmi della finanza e nei prodotti derivati che avrebbero dovuto mettere al riparo la società dai rischi di cambio e ...
There has been a major revival of interest in State Capitalism: What it is, where it is found, and why it is seemingly becoming more ubiquitous. As a concept, it has evolved from radical critiques of the Soviet Union, to being deployed by neo-liberals to describe market reforms deemed imperfect, to settle into a middle ground, as a pragmatic way to describe the state assuming a role as an active economic agent, in addition to its regulatory, social, and security functions. The latter is the central focus of this book, although due attention is accorded to the origins of state capitalism and how it has changed over the years, as well as contemporary ways in which state capitalism may be theor...