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Hedge funds remain the most controversial vehicles of the alternative investment funds universe. Their opaque nature, alleged role in major crises around the world and perceived lack of investor protection have repeatedly led to calls for greater regulation. Yet despite its tremendous growth, the hedge fund industry is still shrouded in a veil of mystery largely due to the highly complex and dynamic trading strategies employed by hedge funds and the scarcity of information about them. For the first time in one comprehensive volume, this concise but thorough guide explains how hedge funds work, analyses risk, compares the European Union (EU) and United States (US) systems and proposes reforms...
Das "Trennbankengesetz" in Deutschland und der Banking Reform Act 2013 im Vereinigten Konigreich verpflichten Universalbanken, bestimmte Geschaftstatigkeiten innerhalb eines Bankkonzerns strukturell voneinander abzuschirmen. Dabei weichen sie erheblich von der Grundidee eines "Trennbankensystems" ab, das durch eine bipolare Organisationsstruktur von Investment und Commercial Banking charakterisiert ist. Theresa Kreft analysiert die komplexen Strukturvorgaben und misst die Reformen unter Einbeziehung des gescheiterten europaischen Reformvorschlags (EU-Trennbankenverordnung) an zentralen Erkenntnissen der Mikrookonomie zu bankbasierter Finanzintermediation. Dabei zeigt sie, dass zentrale Aspekte der deutschen Reform, insbesondere die Neuordnung der Eigenhandelstatigkeiten sowie der Finanzierung alternativer Investmentfonds durch Banken, widerspruchlich sind. Im Anschluss stellt sie Losungsansatze dar.
The economic influence of central banks has received ever more attention given their centrality during the financial crises that led to the Great Recession, strains in the European Union, and the challenges to the Euro. The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Central Banking reflects the state of the art in the theory and practice and covers a wide range of topics that will provide insight to students, scholars, and practitioners. As an up to date reference of the current and potential challenges faced by central banks in the conduct of monetary policy and in the search for the maintenance of financial system stability, this Oxford Handbook covers a wide range of essential issues. The first ...
The COVID-19 health crisis came as a tremendous shock to the world, and to the EU more particularly, only a few years after the Eurozone crisis. The pandemic exacerbated the old structural differences in the economic models between the South and the North of Europe. However, this time, the response of the EU was of a completely different nature: an impressive array of fiscal and monetary policy instruments was mobilized to counteract the shock of the pandemic and to restore confidence. Is there reason to be optimistic in these times of uncertainty? This volume explores possible answers to this question, bringing together several renowned European intellectuals and experts from the fields of ...
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Finanztechnologischen Innovationen (FinTech) wird das Potential zugeschrieben, mit traditionellen Finanzdienstleistern wie Banken in einen Wettbewerb zu treten, der schliesslich in der Zukunftsvision des banking without banks munden konnte. Christopher Rennig geht der Frage nach, ob ein derartiger Trend bereits zu beobachten ist und welche Antworten geltendes Recht auf die mit solchen Innovationen verbundenen Herausforderungen bereithalt. Unter Berucksichtigung der neuesten europaischen Rechtsakte sowie der Verwaltungspraxis der BaFin widmet er dem Bankaufsichtsrecht besondere Aufmerksamkeit: Beschreitet dieses bereits den schmalen Grat zwischen grosstmoglicher Innovationsoffenheit bei gleichzeitiger Risikobegrenzung oder besteht noch Raum fur Verbesserung? Aufgeworfene Thesen werden hierbei nicht nur in der Theorie beleuchtet, sondern durch die okonomische und rechtliche Analyse praktisch tatiger FinTech-Geschaftsmodelle uberpruft.
Over the past two decades, the banking industry has expanded and consolidated at a stunningly unprecedented speed. In this time banks have also moved from focusing purely on commercial banking activities to being heavily involved in market-based and transaction-oriented wholesale and investment banking activities. By carrying out an all-encompassing set of activities, banks have become large, complex, interconnected, and inclined to levels of risk-taking not previously seen. With the onset of the 2008 global financial crisis it became apparent that there was an issue of institutions being too big to fail. This book analyses the too-big-to-fail problem of banks in the EU. It approaches the to...
"A sweeping work of history and analysis, Changing Fortunes chronicles the worlds economic upheavals since 1945 and the challenges to American prosperity and hegemony--from the perspective of two distinguished statesman, an American and a Japanese." "Paul Volcker, the legendary former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, and Toyoo Gyohten, one of Japan's leading economic policy makers, have been major figures on the world scene for more than two decades. In Changing Fortunes, they explain the huge changes in the international monetary order both helped to shape. With candor and insight, Volcker and Gyohten explore the decisions and personalities that have influenced the world's economy ove...