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the hard core of financialization. Shadow banking manifests itself through a variety of activities carried out since time …
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Usurers have been the first step to financial intermediation. Standing as financial intermediaries, they were carrying out the high risk not to be refunded the money granted as loans. But this high risk has always been remunerated by a high interest rate on loans granted. Banks institutions, as...
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Finance has become more a problem than a solution to what the world most wants: socially inclusive growth. It has become a source of crises that threaten the development of the real economy. It has escaped accountability to democratic institutions and often helped, instead, to influence and...
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This paper presents and explains the newly rediscovered and transcribed daily market gold price from 1919-1968 for the world's main gold market during the period, the London Gold Fixing Auction. The paper highlights several novel features previously not discussed in the literature, such as gold...
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Regulatory arbitrage is an indispensable element of regulatory competition as it provides regulatory substitutes for firms, and allows those firms to optimally benefit from such competition. This also increases the elasticity of demand for regulators and engenders accountability among them....
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Financial markets have experienced unprecedented transformations, signs of which have emerged since the late 1970s. In recent years substantial consolidation occurred. In response to changes in macroeconomic variables, such as GDP, industrial production, inflation and the political business...
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globalization, foster- mothered its infancy, and nurtured it into its prime age. Although globalization has seen ebbs and flows and … globalization's discontents but the masters of trade and finance who were about to push globalization off the precipice. To … understand why globalization suffered a blow by its friends rather than its foes, the book successfully attempts to promote a …
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This paper reviews key policy messages and warnings about developments in the run-up to the global financial and economic crisis that began in mid-2007 which are contained in the main publications of the IMF, the OECD and the BIS and discuss issues relevant to strengthening their surveillance...
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This research analyzes the constraints in Islamic insurance (takaful) and its impact on performance of takaful operators/industry operating in Islamic countries. It is a qualitative research as it reviews a lots of literatures for identifying issues in a takaful industry of Islamic countries....
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This case is considered to be the connecting thread to the 35 hour Corporate Finance course for postgraduates and executive education in which: 1) the main concepts of financial statements analysis will be reviewed, including those regarding cost structure, break-even point and operating...
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