Banking Across Boundaries

Author : Brett Christophers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118295502

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Banking Across Boundaries by Brett Christophers Pdf

This compelling contribution to contemporary debates about the banking industry offers a unique perspective on its geographical and conceptual 'placement'. It traces the evolving links between the two, revealing how our notions of banking 'productiveness' have evolved alongside the shifting loci of banking activity. An original contribution to the urgent debates taking place on banking sparked by the current economic crisis Offers a unique perspective on the geographical and social concept of 'placement' of the banking industry Combines theoretical approaches from political economy with contemporary literature on the performativity of economics Details the globalization of Western banking, and analyzes how representations of the banking sector's productiveness have shifted throughout the evolution of Western economic theory Analyzes the social conceptualization of the nature – and value – of the banking industry Illuminates not only how economic ideas 'perform' and shape the economic world, but how those ideas are themselves always products of particular economic realities

Author : Abhik Ray,Abhik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : 0670085340

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Banking Beyond Boundaries by Abhik Ray,Abhik Pdf

Author : Maxime Dagenais,Julien Mauduit
Publisher : Rethinking Canada in the World
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773556652

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Revolutions Across Borders by Maxime Dagenais,Julien Mauduit Pdf

A surprising and innovative analysis of the continental dimensions of the Canadian Rebellion of 1837-38.

Author : Diane Coyle
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400873630

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GDP by Diane Coyle Pdf

How GDP came to rule our lives—and why it needs to change Why did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013—or Ghana's balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did the U.K. financial industry show its fastest expansion ever at the end of 2008—just as the world’s financial system went into meltdown? And why was Greece’s chief statistician charged with treason in 2013 for apparently doing nothing more than trying to accurately report the size of his country’s economy? The answers to all these questions lie in the way we define and measure national economies around the world: Gross Domestic Product. This entertaining and informative book tells the story of GDP, making sense of a statistic that appears constantly in the news, business, and politics, and that seems to rule our lives—but that hardly anyone actually understands. Diane Coyle traces the history of this artificial, abstract, complex, but exceedingly important statistic from its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century precursors through its invention in the 1940s and its postwar golden age, and then through the Great Crash up to today. The reader learns why this standard measure of the size of a country’s economy was invented, how it has changed over the decades, and what its strengths and weaknesses are. The book explains why even small changes in GDP can decide elections, influence major political decisions, and determine whether countries can keep borrowing or be thrown into recession. The book ends by making the case that GDP was a good measure for the twentieth century but is increasingly inappropriate for a twenty-first-century economy driven by innovation, services, and intangible goods.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Financial Services. Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000024387774

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Community Reinvestment Act by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Financial Services. Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Pdf

Author : Andrew H. Van de Ven
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198785972

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Managing Knowledge Integration Across Boundaries by Andrew H. Van de Ven Pdf

Knowledge integration - the purposeful combination of specialized and complementary knowledge to achieve specific tasks - is becoming increasingly important for organizations facing rapidly changing institutional environments, globalized markets, and fast-paced technological developments. The need for knowledge integration is driven by knowledge specialization and its geographic and organizational distribution in the global economy. The increasing complexity and relevance of the knowledge integration problem is apparent in emerging new fields of research, such as open innovation, or the merging of existing ones, e.g. organizational learning and strategy. In global competition, the successful management of knowledge integration underpins firms' ability to innovate, generate profit, grow and, ultimately, survive. This book provides conceptual contributions as well as empirical studies that examine knowledge integration essentially as a 'boundary' problem. Knowledge integration becomes a problem when boundaries between knowledge fields, and the institutions that preside over those fields, are not clear, or become fluid and contestable. This fluidity, and the competitive pressures this fluidity generates, are persistent and permanent features of the world we live in. This book put forward a consistent set of ideas, methods and tools useful to interpret, analyze and act upon the processes of knowledge integration across boundaries.

Author : Dallen J. Timothy,Alon Gelbman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000798135

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Routledge Handbook of Borders and Tourism by Dallen J. Timothy,Alon Gelbman Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Borders and Tourism examines the multiple and diverse relationships between global tourism and political boundaries. With contributions from international, leading thinkers, this book offers theoretical frameworks for understanding borders and tourism and empirical examples from borderlands throughout the world. This handbook provides comprehensive overview of historical and contemporary thinking about evolving national frontiers and tourism. Tourism, by definition, entails people crossing borders of various scales and is manifested in a wide range of conceptualizations of human mobility. Borders significantly influence tourism and determine how the industry grows, is managed, and manifests on the ground. Simultaneously, tourism strongly affects borders, border laws, border policies, and international relations. This book highlights the traditional relationships between borders and tourism, including borders as attractions, barriers, transit spaces, and determiners of tourism landscapes. It offers deeper insights into current thinking about space and place, mobilities, globalization, citizenship, conflict and peace, trans-frontier cooperation, geopolitics, "otherness" and here versus there, the heritagization of borders and memory-making, biodiversity, and bordering, debordering, and rebordering processes. Offering an unparalleled interdisciplinary glimpse at political boundaries and tourism, this handbook will be an essential resource for all students and researchers of tourism, geopolitics and border studies, geography, anthropology, sociology, history, international relations, and global studies.

Author : Sean H. Vanatta
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780300277784

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Plastic Capitalism by Sean H. Vanatta Pdf

How bankers created the modern consumer credit economy and destroyed financial stability in the process American households are awash in expensive credit card debt. But where did all this debt come from? In this history of the rise of postwar American finance, Sean H. Vanatta shows how bankers created our credit card economy and, with it, the indebted nation we know today. America’s consumer debt machine was not inevitable. In the years after World War II, state and federal regulations ensured that many Americans enjoyed safe banks and inexpensive credit. Bankers, though, grew restless amid restrictive rules that made profits scarce. They experimented with new services and new technologies. They settled on credit cards, and in the 1960s mailed out reams of high-interest plastic to build a debt industry from scratch. In the 1960s and ’70s consumers fought back, using federal and state policy to make credit cards safer and more affordable. But bankers found ways to work around local rules. Beginning in 1980, Citibank and its peers relocated their card plans to South Dakota and Delaware, states with the weakest consumer regulations, creating “on-shore” financial havens and drawing consumers into an exploitative credit economy over which they had little control. We live in the world these bankers made.

Author : Milan Babić,Adam D. Dixon,Imogen T. Liu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031019685

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The Political Economy of Geoeconomics: Europe in a Changing World by Milan Babić,Adam D. Dixon,Imogen T. Liu Pdf

This book brings together researchers from different analytical perspectives for the study of contemporary geoeconomics to create a broader and more useful catalogue of conceptual tools, empirical entry points, and case studies around the subject. The distinctive contribution this book offers is its firm rooting in International Political Economy and the hitherto under-researched geoeconomics dynamics of Europe. Many existing accounts of geoeconomics have been developed in International Relations and often reproduce some of the state-centric and static assumptions of the discipline. Recent scholarship furthermore tends to focus on the US-China rivalry, thus discounting the role of other global powers in shaping geoeconomics. As a first collective contribution to the topic in the field of International Political Economy, the book stands to become a major reference point in the field for the coming years. Interest in geoeconomics as well as in related concepts like weaponized interdependence or emerging new rivalries has been on the rise in recent years and will be one of the key research areas in the coming decade of transition and change in Europe and beyond. Chapters 1, 2 and 7 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Panagiotis Delimatsis,Stephanie Bijlmakers,M. Konrad Borowicz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781009329361

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The Evolution of Transnational Rule-Makers through Crises by Panagiotis Delimatsis,Stephanie Bijlmakers,M. Konrad Borowicz Pdf

In recent years transnational private regulators have emerged and multiplied. In this book, experts from various academic disciplines offer empirically grounded case studies and theoretical insights into the evolution and resilience of these bodies through crises. Transnational private regulators display considerable flexibility if compared to public institutions both in exercising their rule-making functions and adapting and transforming in light of endogenous or exogenous crises events calling for change. The contributors identify such events and reflect on their impact on transnational private rule-makers. This edited volume covers important areas of global production and finance that are associated with private rule-making and delves into procedural, substantive and practical elements of private rule-making processes. At a policy level, the book provides comparisons among practices of private bodies in various areas, allowing for important lessons to be drawn for all public and private stakeholders active in, or affected by, private and public rule-making. This title is Open Access.

Author : Neira Jones
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781003855620

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Understanding Payments by Neira Jones Pdf

This is the book for professionals in the payments industry. Written in an engaging and accessible style, it enables new and experienced payments practitioners alike to understand the fundamentals of the various payment ecosystems, and to quickly get up to speed on developments in the industry. From cards to bank and alternative payments, the jargon is debunked and myths are busted. For each ecosystem, a simple framework is used: mechanics, economics, risks, and future outlook, enabling comparison and the evaluation of the best applications in different scenarios. The book also provides an overview of the global regulatory landscape. Drawing on real examples throughout, it weaves together the underpinning ecosystem principles, legislation, and key stakeholders. It offers readers practical advice regarding, and insights into, the key disciplines and equips them with an understanding of the key issues and opportunities. Also including an extensive and comprehensive glossary of terms – the first of its kind in the payments industry – this book will be used as an essential reference for years to come. Understanding Payments will enable payments practitioners, private sector corporations, and regulators to keep up with a fast-evolving and extremely competitive industry. It can be used across businesses to help train staff and as part of continuing professional development, and will be useful to those involved in mergers and acquisitions, investors wanting to understand the industry, professional services firms, law firms and consultants, and policy makers.

Author : William J. Bratton,Zachary Tumin
Publisher : Crown Pub
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780307592392

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Collaborate Or Perish! by William J. Bratton,Zachary Tumin Pdf

Shares field-tested, streetwise advice by an NYC and LAPD police commissioner and a Harvard professor on how to share information and collaborate across groups, businesses and industries, outlining strategic arguments on the benefits of effective networking in today's connected world.

Author : Mishra Sukhvinder
Publisher : S. Chand Publishing
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788121939843

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Banking Law and Practice by Mishra Sukhvinder Pdf

Indian Financial System | Regulatory Aspects Of Banking | Indian Banking System | Banking Structure And Apex Banks | Commercial Banks | Cooperative Banking | Regional Rural Banks | Central Banking | Reserve Bank Of India | State Bank Of India | Deposit Mobilisation Of Banks | Deposit Mobilisation Of Banks | Special Types Of Bank Customers | Bankers Customer Relationship | Negotiable Instrument | Negotiation And Parties To Negotiable | Issue And Negotiation Of Cheques | Payment Of Cheques | Collection Of Cheques | Loans And Advances | Modes Of Creating Charge | Types Of Securities | Purchasing And Discounting Of Bills | Non-Fund Facilities | Contracts And Indeminitiues And Guarantees | Business Credit | Documentation And Advancing Loans | Follow Up And Supervision Of Credit | Understanding Financial Statements | Payment Systems In India | Parabanking Services Of Banks | Prioroty Sector Lending | Micro Finance And Commercial Banks | Financing Agriculture | Financiang Foreign Trade

Author : Mr.Alfred Schipke,Aliona Cebotari,Ms.Nita Thacker
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781616352653

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The Eastern Caribbean Economic and Currency Union by Mr.Alfred Schipke,Aliona Cebotari,Ms.Nita Thacker Pdf

The Eastern Caribbean Economic and Currency Union (OECS/ECCU) is one of four currency unions in the world. As in other parts of the world in the aftermath of the global economic and financial crisis, the region is at a crossroads, facing the major challenges of creating jobs, making growth more inclusive, reforming the banking system, and managing volatility, while grappling with high public debt and persistent low economic growth. Policymakers have the critical task of implementing strong reforms to strengthen the monetary union while also laying the foundation for accelerating growth. This Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the key issues in the OECS/ECCU, including its organization and economic and financial sector linkages, and provides policy recommendations to foster economic growth.

Author : Franz Flögel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351256100

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Distance, Rating Systems and Enterprise Finance by Franz Flögel Pdf

In response to the credit crunch during the global financial crisis of 2007–2008, many have called for the re-establishment of regional banks in the UK and elsewhere. In this context, Germany’s regional banking system, with its more than 1,400 small and regional savings banks and cooperative banks, is viewed as a role model in the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). However, in line with the ‘death of distance’ debate, the universal application of ICT-based scoring and rating systems potentially obviates the necessity for proximity to reduce information asymmetries between banks and SMEs, calling into question the key advantage of regional banks. Utilising novel ethnographic findings from full-time participant observation and interviews, this book presents intimate insights into regional savings banks and compares their SME lending practices with large, nationwide-operating commercial banks in Germany. The ethnographic insights are contextualised by concise description of the three-pillar German banking system, covering bank regulation, structural and geographical developments, and enterprise finance. Furthermore, the book advances an original theoretical approach that combines classical banking theories with insights from social studies of finance on the (ontological) foundation of new realism. Ethnographic findings reveal varying distances of credit granting depending on the rating results, i.e. large banks allocate considerable credit-granting authority to local staff and therefore challenge the proximity advantages of regional banks. Nevertheless, by presenting case studies of lending to SMEs, the book demonstrates the ability of regional banks to capitalise on proximity when screening and monitoring financially distressed SMEs and explains why the suggestion that ICT can substitute for proximity in SME lending has to be rejected.