The Handbook of European Structured Financial Products (Frank J. Fabozzi Series)

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The first comprehensive account of the European structured financial products market
This comprehensive survey of the securitization market in Europe covers all asset-backed securities (the major classes and some nonconventional asset classes that have been securitized), residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations, and more.
Frank J. Fabozzi, PhD, CFA, CPA (New Hope, PA), is the Frederick Frank Adjunct Professor of Finance in the School of Management at Yale University. Prior to joining the Yale faculty, he was a Visiting Professor of Finance in the Sloan School at MIT. Moorad Choudhry (Surrey, UK) is a Vice President in Structured Finance Services with JPMorgan Chase Bank.

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The first comprehensive account of the European structured financial products market

This comprehensive survey of the securitization market in Europe covers all asset-backed securities (the major classes and some nonconventional asset classes that have been securitized), residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations, and more.

Frank J. Fabozzi, PhD, CFA, CPA (New Hope, PA), is the Frederick Frank Adjunct Professor of Finance in the School of Management at Yale University. Prior to joining the Yale faculty, he was a Visiting Professor of Finance in the Sloan School at MIT. Moorad Choudhry (Surrey, UK) is a Vice President in Structured Finance Services with JPMorgan Chase Bank.

The Globalization of Markets: Capital Flows, Exchange Rates and Trade Regimes

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ASIN: 3790809659

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With the integration of Europe, there are free movements in goods, services, short and long term capital, and direct investment. The German mark is the key currency in Europe and its value will affect the equilibrium bilateral exchange rates of the other currencies in the EU. It is important to examine the following issues. What determined the trends in the value of the mark? How do we evaluate whether exchange rates are misaligned? Should term capital flows be taxed? What are the effects of regional trading blocs upon trade liberalization? What are the causes of direct foreign investment by multinationals? There is a unity to this book. The authors are senior scholars who approach the subject from the theoretical, policy oriented and econometric points of view.

The Renaissance in the Fields: Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Peasant

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The Renaissance in the Fields: Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Peasant
Duccio Balestracci
Manufacturer: Pennsylvania State University Press
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ASIN: 0271018798

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In the early 1980s, Duccio Balestracci discovered in a Sienese archive two account books kept from 1450 to 1502 by a Tuscan peasant named Benedetto del Massarizia. Benedetto knew how to read but not how to write. Infected by the urban habit of detailed personal record keeping, he asked various of his literate acquaintances to put into writing the details of his daily affairs. The resulting account books offer an unparalleled glimpse into the economic and social world of late medieval peasants. In Renaissance in the Fields, Balestracci uses these account books and a host of supporting archival records to explore the lives of Benedetto and his family over the course of the fifteenth century. In Benedetto we see how country people could organize land and capital and protect themselves, at least a little, from rapacious landlords and urban administrators. By capturing the changing realities of life in the countryside, Renaissance in the Fields offers the best introduction to how the peasant economy really worked, and to how most people actually lived during the Italian Renaissance.

Accounting for War: Soviet Production, Employment, and the Defence Burden, 19401945 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies)

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Accounting for War: Soviet Production, Employment, and the Defence Burden, 19401945 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies)
Mark Harrison
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 0521894247

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How did the Soviet Union compare economically with its allies and adversaries before and during World War II? Was Soviet economic survival under massive German attack to be expected? What was the cost of the war in rubles, lives and foregone postwar economic well-being? In this book Mark Harrison answers these questions, providing a comprehensive analysis of the hitherto secret Soviet statistical record.

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Dry and technical essential reading.......2003-11-24

This book is extremely dry and technical, and a background in economics and even mathematical concepts applied to economics is definitely recommended.

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In Accounting for Dante, Justin Steinberg reexamines Dante's relation to his contemporary public, an audience that included those poets who responded to Dante's early work as well as the readers who first copied, preserved, and circulated his poetry. Based on original research of manuscripts and documents, Steinberg's study reveals in particular the importance of professional, urban classes--namely, merchants and notaries--as cultivators of early Italian poetry.

Although not officially trained as glossators or scribes, these newly educated readers were full participants in an emergent vernacular literature, demonstrating at times a marked degree of sophistication in their choices of which lyric poems to include in their personal anthologies. Adapting their methods of memorializing contracts and keeping accounts to the collecting of medieval Italian poetry, these urban readers and writers made copying Italian poetry a crucial aspect of how they understood and represented themselves as individuals and communities. Steinberg describes how notaries and merchants transcribed Dante's poetry in nontraditional formats, such as in the archival documents of the Memoriali bolognesi and the register-book Vaticano Latino 3793.

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The agri-food sector is continuously confronted with major challenges. It is a complex sector in the economy because of its important societal implications and embeddedness within a broader rural system. Furthermore, the agricultural sector is a multi-agent sector with a complex chain of inputs, intermediates, outputs and markets that are highly regulated. Multi-agency and strong government regulation result in a complex institutional system. The aim of this book is to bring a selected state-of-the-art of the conceptual and empirical New Institutional Economics-inspired research by European agricultural economists. Besides the social environment, the two main components of the institutional environment are policies and markets. The title of this book tries to capture the main subjects. For a farmer, as an economic producing actor and social agent, his environment comprises of politics, markets and rurality, of which the first is seeking to get more ordering in the two others. Furthermore, the term rural in the title tries to capture, both in policies and markets, the usual agricultural activities as well as the new ones which are more oriented to the rural social system. This book focuses on the three main areas of interest in institutions: policy implementation, market and supply chain organisation and management of rural resources and rural systems. The chapters are covering insights on the significance of institutions on transaction costs, policy analysis, policy reform, market and chain dynamics, input markets, agri-environmental policies, social capital and bottom-up approaches.

Solvency: Models, Assessment and Regulation

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Solvency: Models, Assessment and Regulation
Arne Sandstrom
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ASIN: 1584885548

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Until now there were no published analyses of the recent solvency work conducted in Europe, specifically the risk categories proposed by the International Actuarial Association (IAA). Answering the insurance industry's demand in the wake of the EU Solvency II project, Solvency: Models, Assessment and Regulation provides a concrete summary and review of solvency and inspires additional work in the field. Following an introduction to the concept, the first section of the book provides a historical review of solvency, detailing solvency regulation and accounting within the EU. A review of the steps leading to Solvency II looks at accounting, supervision, the actuarial field, the first phase of Solvency II, international approaches to banking, and the solvency systems of 12 major nations. The second section explores the current basis for solvency modeling, focusing on the valuation of assets and liabilities, dependency and various conservative approaches, as well as a baseline and benchmark approach. This section also provides examples of risk structure and the effects of diversification. The final section discusses groups and internal modeling as it relates to EU Solvency II. It addresses insurance groups, financial conglomerates, reinsurance, the importance of internal modeling and stress testing, and the current state of the second phase of EU Solvency II.

Partners In Prosperity: The Changing Geography Of The Transatlantic Economy (Center for Transatlantic Relations)

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Partners In Prosperity: The Changing Geography Of The Transatlantic Economy (Center for Transatlantic Relations)
Daniel S. Hamilton , and Joseph P. Quinlan
Manufacturer: Brookings Institution Press
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ASIN: 0975332554

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One of the most dangerous deficits facing transatlantic relations today is not in trade, payments, or military capabilities. It is a deficit in understanding the vital stake Americans and Europeans have developed in the health of their economic relationship. Globalization is happening faster and reaching deeper between Europe and America than between any other two continents. The transatlantic economy generates roughly $3.5 trillion in total commercial sales a year and employs over 12 million workers in mutually "insourced" jobs.

This book maps the increasingly dense web of investment, trade, and jobs that connects Europe's regions to America's states. It traces the impact of NAFTA and EU enlargement on transatlantic economic flows. It tracks intercontinental "connectivity" in the new knowledge economy, and it sets forth areas in which Europe and America continue to be global pathfinders.

In the context of today's debates about globalization and transatlantic drift, this book offers some unanticipated and counterintuitive connections that have important policy implications.

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A book to break the mould.......2005-06-11

Dan Hamilton, who used to help run European policy at the U.S. State Department, now directs the Center for Transatlantic Relations in Washington DC, and this book should revolutionize the way Americans think about Europe. Put aside the jokes about the French and the gloom in Germany about the lackluster European economy and the market wobbles about the future of the euro and read this book. The relationship between Europe and the U.S. is not about Iraq or NATO or Russia or the UN or working together for debt relief for the Third World, it is about the way they are becoming a single Transtalantic economy. Daimler takes over Chrysler; British Aerospace and British Petroleum now have more American than British shareholders; Airbus is the second biggest aerospace employer in the US. The key to Hamilton's book, which builds on a report published by his thinktank and written by Joseph Quinlan, is that we have been looking in the wrong place when we try to analyse the Transatlantic economic relationship. It is not to be measured in trade figures, because there is so much more mutual investment that we don't ship goods back and forth - we ship money that builds factories that employ people and make goods. So Transtalantic trade is some $600 billion a year; but add together the sales of US-owned companies in Europe, and European-owned companies in the US, and the real economic relationship is over $3,000 billion a year, and 12 million Europeans and Americans work for one another's companies. This is one interwoven and interdependent economy; Europe and the US are joined at hip, whatever Jacques Chirac of Geioge W Bush may say.

An Unamerican Business: The Rise of the New European Enterprise

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An Unamerican Business: The Rise of the New European Enterprise
Donald Kalff
Manufacturer: Kogan Page
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ASIN: 0749444908

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"Kalff lucidly analyses the fundamental shortcomings of the Anglo-Saxon business culture and sketches the contours of a strongly competitive European alternative. A must-read." -- Fons Trompenaars, CEO Trompenaars/Hampden-Turner and author of Business across Cultures

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A "must read" for MBA students and corporate executives responsible for international marketing.......2006-06-02

An Unamerican Business: The Rise Of The New European Enterprise by Donald Kalff (co-founder and CEO of Immpact, a biotech company, and a Visiting Professor, Leiden University School of Management, Netherlands) is an interpretive theoretical study of the establishment and success of European corporate business models in the global marketplace to the disadvantages of traditional American corporations. Deftly presenting a conceptual theory of the European enterprise model constructed from ideals of ethical evaluation, economic concerns and considerations, An Unamerican Business offers an outline to a truly progressive ideal for the enterprising and productive international corporate values and business perspectives. A "must read" for MBA students and corporate executives responsible for international marketing, and a high priority addition to academic library "Business Studies" reference collections, An Unamerican Business is very strongly recommended and knowledgeable reading.

Hitler's Secret Bankers: The Myth Of Swiss Neutrality During The Holocau: The Myth of Swiss Neutrality During the Holocaust

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Hitler's Secret Bankers: The Myth Of Swiss Neutrality During The Holocau: The Myth of Swiss Neutrality During the Holocaust

Manufacturer: Citadel
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The Hobo Philosopher.......2007-09-18

This is another "must read" for those truly interested in the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Banking and "Money" and how it all works or doesn't work is another one of my projects. This book is a good example of some of the negative aspects of banking. There are many more such examples. After reading this book I doubt if you will feel any compassion for the "injustice" of reparation payments to those "nasty" Jews.
Whatever these banks and the European communities are paying to Jewish descendents is merely a trifle - a drop in a big bucket of blood, human ashes, hate, cruelty, slaughter, and abuse.
But have no fear it was not just the Swiss - the Americans, the British the French and the Rockefellers should be hearing a big knock on their vault doors in the not too distant future. Of course, they may have already settled "out of court" - that would be the wise choice.

A Well Written View Of History.......2003-10-19

Lebor's analytical look at the long forgotten links between Switzerland's bankers and the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler is a must read for anyone interested in understanding the Third Reich's rise to power. Lebor carefully maps out the strategic ties between the two that allowed Germany to rearm after WWI, to launch war against Europe and the Soviet Union and to successfully plan and finance genocide. In a word, this book is a must for any student of history, and for all those interested in understanding how the seeds for the darkest period of the 20th century were planted and germinated.

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So entrenched and powerful is the "patriarchy" within organizations that women have serious difficulty acquiring positions of real importance, even when it is in the organization's best interest to use their talents fully (and reward them equitably). Reeves surveys the structural obstacles to women's advancement and argues that successful women executives threaten their male counterparts and their patriarchal culture, which responds by punishing them. Unlike other studies on the topic, Reeves explains the mechanisms by which gender discrimination operates--the dynamics of discrimination and the processes by which women in business are marginalized, subordinated, and excluded. Her book combines theory with first person case study accounts of 10 women who were suppressed, then fired. The result is a fresh, compelling argument that, despite claims to the contrary, the glass ceiling still exists. The patriarchy has simply devised subtle new ways to circumvent the legal remedies meant to crack through it. Reeves reviews statistics on the role of women in work, patterns of horizontal and vertical segregation, and differences in the experiences of men and women, then turns to an assessment of the theories of women's subordination. She profiles each of her 10 women subjects, explains their education, career trajectory, and accomplishments. Their experiences reveal various mechanisms through which the patriarchy operates to subordinate successful women, such as communication patterns among men that minimize women's contributions, withholding of information, denial of status to women, intimidation tactics, and the double bind that women find themselves in when they seek fair treatment. After analyzing the women's termination in detail, Reeves discusses how each woman's personality played a role in her termination. Reeves ends by drawing conclusions on what the present and future seem to hold for women's progress in organizations, and particularly in publicly held corporations.

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Why do successful women fail?.......2002-07-30

Too many really qualified, effective, and successful women I know in business seem to just stop after some point, throw in the towel, get shunted aside or just get fired. Now I know why...Reeves' case studies and her analysis make it clear that its not just a glass ceiling women are hitting up against, its more like a trampoline at the top, bouncing back fastest just the women with the greatest momentum... Too many books about women in the work place are pure theory, and there are more than a few that offer advice about how to succeed in the executive suite. This one combines a great grip on solid feminist theory with hard details about individual cases to draw lessons women can apply to work withth system... and to change it!

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