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In 2004, Spain's Banco Santander purchased Britain's Abbey National Bank in a deal valued at fifteen billion dollars - an acquisition that made Santander one of the ten largest financial institutions in the world. This work reveals how strategic decisions made by the family drove Santander's unprecedented rise to global prominence.

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The global financial crisis is largely behind us, but the challenges it poses to the future stability of the world's economic system affects everyone from American families to Main Street businesses to Wall Street financial powerhouses. This book deals with this topic.

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Based on the 1996 Lionel Robbins Lectures, this readable book deals succinctly, in a nontechnical manner, with a wide variety of issues in monetary policy.

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Eager to make government work better, cost less, and be more accountable, reformers are embracing a common prescription: consolidate and downsize government agencies to eliminate duplication and overlap. But is this prescription really a panacea for what ails government, or is the solution for better government performance more complex This book tackles that question.

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Global competition, technological development, and changes in banking laws and regulations are transforming the role of commercial banks and the nature of the banking business within the U.S. financial system.

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A study of the clearings and debits series is combined with a broad investigation of the contributions these series have made to economic analysis and of the services they have rendered to the economic analyst, historian, and theorist.

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A provocative critique of America's cash money system and a powerful argument for replacing it with a cashless new system of federal electronic currency.

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Essentials of Money, Banking and Financial Institutions builds on the essential concepts of money and banking and applies them in the context of developing countries. Frequent comparisons between developed and developing countries are made to enable students to make proper inferences about the efficacy of certain concepts.

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In recent years, the major industrialized nations have developed cooperative procedures for supervising banks, harmonized their standards for bank capital requirements, and initiated cooperative understanding about securities market supervision. This book assesses what further coordination and harmonization in financial regulation will be required in an era of increased globalization.

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The authors consider the opportunities for foreign participants in the rapidly evolving People's Republic of China across all sectors of economic activity: banking, securities markets, infrastructure, and business investment.

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Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries--but not in others The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone but have provided miniscule amounts of credit to business enterprises and households. Analyzing the politic

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Free banking means the total deregulation of the banking industry, signifying an absence of constraints on reserve and capital requirements, and government insurance. It also means that private banks could issue their own currency. This work addresses these issues in terms of Says's Law.

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This selection from the authors' A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 (Princeton) describes the changes that were made in the banking structure and in the monetary standard following the great contraction of 1929 to 1933, the establishment of monetary policies after the New Deal period, and the development of inflation during World Wa

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Originally published: New York: American Council on Education: Macmillan Pub. Co., c1989, in series: American Council on Education/Macmillan series in higher education.

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Deals with the savings and loan crisis, providing analytical groundwork. The author describes the origins of the problems in new market forces and new technologies, and how the problems grew out of control as a result of regulatory mistakes and congressional inaction.

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As the decade of the 1980s draws to a close, international debt--and the role of international banks in solving the debt crisis--is considered by some to be the major problem facing the world's economies.

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Examines bank failures in selected hotspots and crises that spread from them around the world in 1997.

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Casts the ongoing changes in money and banking into perspective.

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