This Article is written as two discrete, independently accessible topical sections. The first topical section, presented in Part I of this Article, is a case study of Bank of America's acquisition of Merrill Lynch and the impact of a flawed merger execution on the board's subsequent decisions....

Why are we rich and others poor? What is preventing the less-developed countries from catching up with the more developed? How did we become rich? Underlying these questions are more fundamental ones: What is the nature of economic progress? What are its causes? I seek the answers to these...

Korean Abstract: 2008년 세계적(global) 금융위기를 겪으면서 금융감독 업무를 수행하는 금융감독기구만으로는 금융위기 시에 금융안정의 역할을 효율적으로 추진할 수 없다는 한계가 지적되면서 중앙은행과 예금보험기구의...

Korean Abstract: 2008년 세계적(global) 금융위기 이후 세계 각국은 금융위기 대응 과정에서 나타난 문제점을 보완하기 위한 각종 조치를 취하고 있으며, 국제적으로도 금융 개혁에 대한 논의가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 이와...

The Eurozone today is going into the same deflationary situation that the U.S. did under Jackson's destruction of the Second Bank, and the post-Civil War budget surpluses that deflated the economy. But whereas the Fed's creation was designed to inflate the U.S. economy, Europe's European Central...

This paper is a piece for contributing to the sustainable European stake in order to interlock financial systems with the objectives of the 2030 Agenda (the UN’s SDGs). It is intended to be used as a platform for discussion between risk management practitioners in the financial industry and...

This paper examines the introduction of the gold-based Mark currency in Germany in the 1870s in the context of debates about international monetary reform, and the introduction of national moneys, as well as in the context of national political and economic integration in Germany. It looks at...

This paper examines the alternative views of fixed versus floating exchange rates presented in Gottfried Haberler's Prosperity and Depression (1937) and Ragnar Nurkse's Interwar Currency Experience (1944). It shows how Haberler presented a model of exchange rates that is an anticipation of the...

Following the financial crisis, the view became widespread that IFRS, because it is based on a so-called incurred-loss approach, led to significant overstatements of financial assets by placing tight restrictions on the recognition of loan losses. As a result, the IASB undertook a project to...

I subject some aspects of Roosevelt's “New Deal” to critical analysis, with particular attention to what is termed “liberal democracy.” This analysis demonstrates the limits to reform, given the power of “vested interests” as articulated by Thorstein Veblen. While progressive...