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This study offers an explanation of the democratic accountability of the central bank and suggests criteria by which it can be evaluated.

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This book presents a comprehensive examination of the deregulation of financial markets that began in the United States in the mid-1960s and has now reached global proportions.

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An in-depth guide to divestiture for financial and corporate planning executives, this volume offers comprehensive information about divestiture strategies, the rationale for divestiture, the effects on employees and other corporate stakeholders, and the internal management problems that can accompany divestiture proposal and implementation.

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Annuities are financial products that guarantee the holder a fixed return so long as the holder remains alive, thereby providing insurance against lifetime uncertainty. This book offers readers a theoretical analysis of the functioning of private annuity markets.

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Rosko and Broyles begin the book with an overview of rising expenditures in the health care industry, commenting on inflationary pressures and the resulting reduction in access to health care services.

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Scholars and students of both economics and public policy will find Rich's work a significant contribution to contemporary debates on welfare policy directions.

Divided into four parts, the volume begins by redefining the problem of welfare economics.

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Frustrated by financial statements Dread the budget process Help has arrived!

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Subsequent chapters address the legal environment of foreign banking, international financial markets, U.S. international lending institutions, and such issues as the motivation behind international banking market structure and activities of foreign banks and major foreign banking concerns in the United States.

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The Financial Analyst's Guide to Monetary Policy approaches monetary policy in a straightforward manner. Then it considers the practical implications and strategies that are important to the business executives, financial analysts, portfolio managers, and investors in general.

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Must reading for institutional and private investors, this book will also be of significant interest to corporate executives who may be faced with management responsibilities during a planned corporate event such as a stock repurchase program or an unplanned disaster like the Union Carbide incident in Bhopal or the Tylenol poisonings.

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The Florida land boom was an outgrowth of the industrialization of America, the onset of World War I, and the special natural environment of the state. A place for forts and ports since the days of the Spanish Empire, the presence of military aviation in Florida served to bring attention to the state.

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From Countrywide's former senior vice president of marketing comes the first engrossing inside look at Countrywide Home Loans, how the mortgage crisis started--and where it may end.

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Focusing on three periods of economic stress, this book argues that despite convincing evidence that the Fed contributed to these crises, it has consistently emerged more powerful and influential. It tells the story of the Fed as a classic American epic: turning adversity into opportunity, responding to threat by innovating and adapting.

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Their views provide an unusual survey of current thinking in the domains of banking and finance, and an important source of current information, background, and foresights for banking and finance practitioners, students, and academics.

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Traces the history of accounting and auditing, analysing the factors - domestic and international - that have led to the contemporary problems of the profession. He prescribes measures that can and should be taken in order to restore public accounting to its former status and esteem.

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A re-evaluation of the 1929 Crash, this work outlines and refutes seven commonly held myths regarding the events of 1929-1932. It compares the stock market and profitablity of corporations, re-assesses the over-pricing of RCA stock and looks at the 1931 banking system hearings.