The publication of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America has kindled interest across disciplines to appraise the exceptional nature of U.S. activities. In general, however, all the published works have not focused their analyses from an economic point of view. While economics was for...

1. Introduction: Capital Wars -- 2. Global Money -- 3. Synopsis: A Bigger, More Volatile World -- 4. The Liquidity Model -- 5. Real Exchange Adjustment -- 6. Private Sector (Funding) Liquidity -- 7. The Central Banks: Don't Fight the Fed, Don't Upset the ECB and Don't Mess with the PBoC -- 8....

Global liquidity as a new trend in international capital flows -- Destination of Global Liquidity before the Global Financial Crisis: Role of Foreign Bank Presence and the EU Effect -- Global Liquidity and Reallocation of Domestic Credit -- Global Financial Crisis and Demand for the US Dollar as...

Financial Inclusion in Developing Countries: Applying Financial Technology as a Panacea -- Revisiting the East Asian financial crises: Lessons from ethics and development pathways -- Financial Development and Natural Resources Rents-Human Capital Nexus: A New Approach -- Financial Inclusion...

The ‘Troika’ is a word that is scorched into the narrative of the EU’s banking and economic crisis - a triumvirate constituted by the European Central Bank, the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund. The modus operandi of the Troika is defined by the authors of this book...

Fiscal Decentralization Reforms and Local Government Efficiency: An Introduction -- Fiscal Decentralization in Bulgaria -- Fiscal Decentralization in the Czech Republic -- The Fiscal Decentralization in Hungary -- The Fiscal Decentralization in Poland -- The Fiscal Decentralization in Romania --...

Einführung -- Die Politik der Alternativlosigkeit: Wie es dazu kam und warum ein Wechsel angeraten ist -- Die Flüchtlings- und Eurokrise: Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede in der politischen Handhabung -- Niedrigzinsen: Folgen und Gefahren -- Nivellierung der Risikoprämien durch die EZB --...

1. Normative Foundations -- Part I: Financial Economics and Macroeconomics after WWII -- 2. The Second Financialisation -- 3. The Emergence of Modern Financial Economics -- 4. Finance and Macroeconomics -- Part II: The regulation of the financial system after the crisis -- 5. The Great Financial...

Einleitung -- Die FinTech-Akteure in Deutschland -- FinTechs und Datenschutz -- FinTechs und Datenschutz nach Einführung der DS-GVO -- FinTech-Geschäftsmodelle -- Regulierungsbedarf im deutschen FinTech-Markt -- Eine Zusammenfassung in elf Thesen