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Financial Fragilities in Latin America

The 1980s and 1990s

By: Ms.Liliana Rojas-Suárez,Mr.Steven Riess Weisbrod

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Financial Fragilities in Latin America

The 1980s and 1990s

By: Ms.Liliana Rojas-Suárez,Mr.Steven Riess Weisbrod

By reviewing the experiences of Latin American countries with the restructuring of their financial sectors since 1982, this paper derives lessons regarding the most effective ways to deal with banking difficulties in developing countries. It then discusses whether these lessons have been put into practice during the latest crisis. A sample of five countries - Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru - is used for this purpose.

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International Monetary Fund

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1557755027

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Buying and Believing

Sri Lankan Advertising and Consumers in a Transnational World

By: Steven Kemper

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Buying and Believing

Sri Lankan Advertising and Consumers in a Transnational World

By: Steven Kemper

Advertising is a central part of the global system of commerce and culture. Every day it exposes consumers around the world to practices associated with the West, urban life, prosperity, and modernity. One consequence of this exposure is that it frees people's imaginations from time and place, and imposes a new and foreign reality. In this book Steven Kemper looks at a parallel trend, arguing that advertising firms in Nairobi, Caracas, and Colombo also domesticate the imagination, insinuating images into people's minds of the traditional as well as the modern, the local as much as the global. Drawing upon fieldwork conducted over thirty years, Kemper examines the Sri Lankan advertising industry to show how executives draw on their skills as folk ethnographers to "Sri Lankanize" commodities and practices to make them locally desirable, essentially producing new forms of Sri Lankan culture. Addressing many of the most pressing agendas of contemporary anthropology, Buying and Becoming breaks new ground in studies of culture and globalization.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226430413

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Financial Regulation

Why, How and Where Now?

By: Charles Goodhart,Philipp Hartmann,David T. Llewellyn,Liliana Rojas-Suarez,Steven Weisbrod

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Financial Regulation

Why, How and Where Now?

By: Charles Goodhart,Philipp Hartmann,David T. Llewellyn,Liliana Rojas-Suarez,Steven Weisbrod

Financial Regulation presents an important restatement of the purposes and objectives of financial regulation. The authors provide details and data on the scale, nature and costs of regulatory problems around the world, and look at what sort of countries and sectors require special attention and policies. Key topics covered include: * the need to recast the form of regulation * incentive structures for financial regulation * proportionality * new techniques for risk management * regulation in emerging countries * crisis management * prospects for financial regulation in the future.

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Routledge

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1135116318

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9781135116316

Capital of Capital

Money, Banking, and Power in New York City

By: Steven H. Jaffe,Jessica Lautin,Museum of the City of New York

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Capital of Capital

Money, Banking, and Power in New York City

By: Steven H. Jaffe,Jessica Lautin,Museum of the City of New York

From Revolutionary-era bank notes and stock and bond trading during the Civil War to the invention of modern mortgages and the 2008 financial collapse, Capital of Capital explores how New York City gave rise to a banking industry that in turn made the American and worldÕs economy. In addition to exploring the frequently contentious evolution of the banking industry, the book examines the role of banks in making New York City an international economic center and its influence on AmericaÕs economy, politics, society, and culture. Based on a major exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York, Capital of Capital profiles the key leaders and critics of banking, such as Alexander Hamilton, the Rockefellers, and the Occupy Wall Street protesters. The book also covers the key events and controversies that have shaped the history of banking and includes a fascinating array of primary materials ranging from speeches and political documents to advertisements and journalistic accounts. Lavishly illustrated, Capital of Capital provides a multifaceted, original understanding of the profound impact of banking on the life of New York City and the worldÕs economy.

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Columbia University Press

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0231169108

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9780231169103

International Business

Theory and Practice

By: Mohammad Reza Vaghefi,Steven K. Paulson,William H. Tomlinson

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International Business

Theory and Practice

By: Mohammad Reza Vaghefi,Steven K. Paulson,William H. Tomlinson

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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0844816906

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Federal Taxation of Corporations and Corporate Transactions

By: Steven Dean,Bradley T. Borden

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Federal Taxation of Corporations and Corporate Transactions

By: Steven Dean,Bradley T. Borden

This first edition of Federal Taxation of Corporations and Corporate Transactions provides a comprehensive examination of tax principles with a unique practice-oriented approach to help students become practice ready with skills that they have developed in a setting that reflects practice in the real world. The casebook introduces students not only to transactional tax practice and the federal tax penalty regime, but also to the rules of professional ethics and the specific rules that govern professionals who practice tax law. It features an array of Deal Downloads that breathe life into complex material, presenting high-profile transactions involving Amazon, Apple, Ford and others. This first edition will have a separately sold Client File supplement, which provides memoranda that require students to analyze the Deal Download transactions and to employ them as precedents to structure acquisitions, investments, and distributions for a hypothetical client. Key Benefits: Client files that are designed to help students learn the law in a practice-like setting. Extensive commentary about tax principles and cites to statutes, cases, regulations, and rulings that the students must study to fully learn the material. Chapter 9, where students will learn about the transaction that heralded the return of Steve Jobs to Apple in the 1990s and paved the way for the company’s subsequent dominant run. An examination of issues posed by classic cases, by focusing on the language of the underlying deal documents, and by learning how to solve clients’ problems before they are set in stone.

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Aspen Publishing

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1454893931

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A New Guide to Post-Keynesian Economics

By: Richard P. F. Holt,Steven Pressman

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A New Guide to Post-Keynesian Economics

By: Richard P. F. Holt,Steven Pressman

Eichner's classic A Guide to Post-Keynesian Economics (1978) is still seen as the definitive staging post for those wishing to familiarise themselves with the Post-Keynesian School. This book brings the story up-to-date. Of all the subgroups within heterodox economics, Post-Keynesianism has provided the most convincing alternative to mainstream theory. The main representatives of the Post-Keynesianism from both sides of the Atlantic are represented here, including Paul Davidson, Geoff Harcourt and Sheila Dow.

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Routledge

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113458279X

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Japan Remodeled

How Government and Industry are Reforming Japanese Capitalism

By: Steven Kent Vogel

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Japan Remodeled

How Government and Industry are Reforming Japanese Capitalism

By: Steven Kent Vogel

As the Japanese economy languished in the 1990s Japanese government officials, business executives, and opinion leaders concluded that their economic model had gone terribly wrong. They questioned the very institutions that had been credited with Japan's past success: a powerful bureaucracy guiding the economy, close government-industry ties, "lifetime" employment, the main bank system, and dense interfirm networks. Many of these leaders turned to the U.S. model for lessons, urging the government to liberate the economy and companies to sever long-term ties with workers, banks, suppliers, and other firms.Despite popular perceptions to the contrary, Japanese government and industry have in fact enacted substantial reforms. Yet Japan never emulated the American model. As government officials and industry leaders scrutinized their options, they selected reforms to modify or reinforce preexisting institutions rather than to abandon them. In Japan Remodeled, Steven Vogel explains the nature and extent of these reforms and why they were enacted.Vogel demonstrates how government and industry have devised innovative solutions. The cumulative result of many small adjustments is, he argues, an emerging Japan that has a substantially redesigned economic model characterized by more selectivity in business partnerships, more differentiation across sectors and companies, and more openness to foreign players.

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Cornell University Press

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0801473713

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Interconnectedness, Systemic Crises and Recessions

By: Marco A Espinosa-Vega,Mr.Steven Russell

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Interconnectedness, Systemic Crises and Recessions

By: Marco A Espinosa-Vega,Mr.Steven Russell

This relatively simple model attempts to capture and integrate four widely held views about financial crises. [1] Interconnectedness among financial institutions (banks) can play a major role in precipitating systemic financial crises. [2] Lack of information about the quality of bank portfolios also plays a role in precipitating systemic crises. [3] Financial crises, particularly systemic ones, are often followed by severe, lengthy recessions. [4] Loss of confidence in the financial system is partly responsible for the length and severity of these recessions. In the model, banks make decisions about initiating and liquidating risky loans. Interconnectedness among their asset portfolios can obscure information about these portfolios, causing them to make inefficient decisions about liquidation, and about retention of the managers who assess credit risk. These decisions can increase the depth of recessions, and they can produce systemic financial crises. They can also reduce the effectiveness of future bank risk assessment, increasing the probability of lengthy, severe recessions. The government, acting in the interest of current and future depositors, may wish to increase the transparency of bank portfolios by limiting interconnectedness. The optimal degree of regulation, which may depend on depositors’ degree of risk aversion, may not eliminate financial crises.

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1498344534

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Rethinking Housing Bubbles

The Role of Household and Bank Balance Sheets in Modeling Economic Cycles

By: Steven D. Gjerstad,Vernon L. Smith

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Rethinking Housing Bubbles

The Role of Household and Bank Balance Sheets in Modeling Economic Cycles

By: Steven D. Gjerstad,Vernon L. Smith

Steven D. Gjerstad and Nobel Laureate Vernon L. Smith demonstrate the critical role that household and bank balance sheets play in economic cycles.

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0521198097

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Canadian Foreign Policy

Defining the National Interest

By: Steven Kendall Holloway

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Canadian Foreign Policy

Defining the National Interest

By: Steven Kendall Holloway

Canadian Foreign Policy: Defining the National Interest will contribute greatly to intelligent democratic debate about what Canada should do globally." - Joseph Masciulli, St. Thomas University

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1551118165

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Monetary Evolution, Free Banking, And Economic Order

By: Steven Horwitz

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Monetary Evolution, Free Banking, And Economic Order

By: Steven Horwitz

This book deals with the origin and functions of money and banking, emphasizing the role both play in the promotion of economic order. Developing the insights of Hayek and others of the Austrian tradition, Professor Horwitz argues that an appreciation of the spontaneous evolutionary processes that produce and maintain our monetary institutions shou

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0429722885

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Controllership

The Work of the Managerial Accountant, 2008 Cumulative Supplement

By: Janice M. Roehl-Anderson,Steven M. Bragg

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Controllership

The Work of the Managerial Accountant, 2008 Cumulative Supplement

By: Janice M. Roehl-Anderson,Steven M. Bragg

An earlier edition of this enduring classic (which was originally published in 1952) is cited in Books for College Libraries, 3d ed. Of course it has evolved substantially to remain useful, and this seventh edition incorporates new material on the following topics: ethics-related decisions, GAAP pronouncements, cost accounting methodologies, throughput costing, composition and role of the audit committee, taxation strategy, business cycle forecasting, payroll and tax issues, management reporting formats, reporting to the Securities and Exchange Commission, acquisition due diligence checklists, and accounting manual preparation and maintenance. Purchasers of this volume should be alert for future supplements and updates from the publisher, because the field just won't stay still. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470135719

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Accounting Best Practices

By: Steven M. Bragg

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Accounting Best Practices

By: Steven M. Bragg

New best practices for the evolving business Everyone knows that adopting accounting best practices can improve efficiency and reduce error rates in the accounting department, but less obvious are the benefits gained from better reporting of information to other parts of the company. More accurate data reported faster can play an integral role in both short- and long-term strategic planning. Accounting guru Steven Bragg explains how to leverage this and other opportunities in his authoritative Accounting Best Practices, Third Edition. Bragg adds over sixty new best practices to his benchmark resource, concentrating primarily on the areas of: Internal auditing Accounts payable Finance Payroll Bragg highlights the dos and don'ts of best practices implementation, and a new reference system renders the expansive collection of best practices readily accessible. Accounting and financial managers, internal and external auditors, and consultants will find Accounting Best Practices, Third Edition to be a peerless resource.

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0471468460

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International Economics and Business

Nations and Firms in the Global Economy

By: Sjoerd Beugelsdijk,Steven Brakman,Harry Garretsen,Charles van Marrewijk

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International Economics and Business

Nations and Firms in the Global Economy

By: Sjoerd Beugelsdijk,Steven Brakman,Harry Garretsen,Charles van Marrewijk

With a new title (following the successful first edition of Nations and Firms in the Global Economy), this second edition undergraduate textbook combines the dual perspectives of international economics and international business, providing a complete overview of the changing role of nations and firms in the global economy. International Economics and Business covers the key concepts typically included in an introductory course on the global economy, supported by contemporary case studies from the international business world. The result is a practical guide to the world economy for undergraduate students in economics and business, also suitable for students in other social science disciplines. Updated to include the latest theoretical insights, data and case studies, with online quizzes, data exercises and additional reading, International Economics and Business is a lively and engaging textbook providing a complete and practical understanding of international economics and globalization through a uniquely integrated lens.

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110727687X

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Nations and Firms in the Global Economy

An Introduction to International Economics and Business

By: Steven Brakman

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Nations and Firms in the Global Economy

An Introduction to International Economics and Business

By: Steven Brakman

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0521540577

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The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual

By: Steven M. Bragg

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The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual

By: Steven M. Bragg

Praise for The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual "Steve Bragg has done it again! This manual shows what a CFO needs to do to truly add value. It should be mandatory reading for all CFOs who want to play a strategic role in their organizations." —Janice M. Roehl-Anderson, Partner, Deloitte Consulting "This timely guide will help CFOs master the right thinking and management skills. An effective tool for navigating today's corporate financial waters." —Clint Davies, Principal, Berry, Dunn, McNeil & Parker "An excellent reference book and good reading besides. This book is a how-to for new and experienced CFOs. It is one place for new CFOs to get information on how to start in their job as well as continuing reference on many issues-such as personnel, accounting and reporting, banking, credit, taxes, and so on." —Gail W. Sevier, CPA, Member/Manager of Marrs, Sevier & Company LLC

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0471463345

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Financial Conditions and Macroeconomic Performance

Essays in Honor of Hyman P.Minsky

By: Steven M. Fazzari,Dimitri B. Papadimitriou

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Financial Conditions and Macroeconomic Performance

Essays in Honor of Hyman P.Minsky

By: Steven M. Fazzari,Dimitri B. Papadimitriou

This collection of papers on financial instability and its impact on macroeconomic performance honours Hyman P. Minsky and his lifelong work. It is based on a conference at Washington University, St. Louis, in 1990 and includes among the authors Benjamin M. Friedman, Charles P. Kindleberger, Jan Kregel and Steven Fazzari. These papers consider Minsky's definitive analysis that yields such a clear and disturbing sequence of financial events: booms, government intervention to prevent debt contraction and new booms that cause a progressive buildup of new debt, eventually leaving the economy much more fragile financially.

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Routledge

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1317470567

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9781317470564

Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan

The Impact of the Matsukata Reform

By: Steven J. Ericson

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Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan

The Impact of the Matsukata Reform

By: Steven J. Ericson

With a new look at the 1880s financial reforms in Japan, Steven J. Ericson's Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan overturns widely held views of the program carried out by Finance Minister Matsukata Masayoshi. As Ericson shows, rather than constituting an orthodox financial-stabilization program—a sort of precursor of the "neoliberal" reforms promoted by the IMF in the 1980s and 1990s—Matsukata's policies differed in significant ways from both classical economic liberalism and neoliberal orthodoxy. The Matsukata financial reform has become famous largely for the wrong reasons, and Ericson sets the record straight. He shows that Matsukata intended to pursue fiscal retrenchment and budget-balancing when he became finance minister in late 1881. Various exigencies, including foreign military crises and a worsening domestic depression, compelled him instead to increase spending by running deficits and floating public bonds. Though he drastically reduced the money supply, he combined the positive and contractionary policies of his immediate predecessors to pull off a program of "expansionary austerity" paralleling state responses to financial crisis elsewhere in the world both then and now. Through a new and much-needed recalibration of this pivotal financial reform, Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan demonstrates that, in several ways, ranging from state-led export promotion to the creation of a government-controlled central bank, Matsukata advanced policies that were more in line with a nationalist, developmentalist approach than with a liberal economic one. Ericson shows that Matsukata Masayoshi was far from a rigid adherent of classical economic liberalism.

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Cornell University Press

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1501746936

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9781501746932

Juvenile Justice

A Guide to Theory, Policy, and Practice

By: Steven M. Cox

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Juvenile Justice

A Guide to Theory, Policy, and Practice

By: Steven M. Cox

Juvenile Justice is an ideal brief core text for undergraduate courses such as Introduction to Juvenile Justice, Juvenile Crime, Juvenile Violence, Juvenile Delinquency, and Youth Justice in departments of criminal justice, criminology, and sociology."--BOOK JACKET.

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SAGE

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141295133X

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Microeconometrics of Banking

Methods, Applications, and Results

By: Hans Degryse,Moshe Kim,Steven Ongena

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Microeconometrics of Banking

Methods, Applications, and Results

By: Hans Degryse,Moshe Kim,Steven Ongena

This title provides a compendium to recent work in empirical banking. It follows the structure in 'The Microeconomics of Banking' by Xavier Freixas and Jean Charles Rochet in arranging the relevant methodologies, applications and results to achieve a coherent synthesis between available theory and supporting empirics.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195340477

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9780195340471

Federal Money Laundering Regulation

Banking, Corporate, & Securities Compliance

By: Steven Mark Levy

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Federal Money Laundering Regulation

Banking, Corporate, & Securities Compliance

By: Steven Mark Levy

Federal Money Laundering Regulation: Banking, Corporate and Securities Compliance is your complete guide to understanding and complying with all U.S. statutes, regulations and court decisions governing money laundering activity. This valuable desk reference provides in-depth analysis and guidance on recordkeeping and reporting requirements, anti- money laundering compliance programs, money laundering crimes, asset forfeitures, and state and international measures against money laundering and terrorist financing. This guide is especially aimed at law firms and corporate counsel representing banks, insurance companies, securities broker-dealers, and other financial institutions, as well as the criminal bar, public accountants, and compliance officers. The Second Edition of Federal Money Laundering Regulation reflects a substantial reorganization and expansion of the previous edition, and adds three new chapters covering: terrorist financing (Chapter 5); OFAC compliance (Chapter 10); and special measures against foreign jurisdictions or financial institutions deemed to be and“of primary money laundering concernand” (Chapter 30). The remaining chapters have been extensively rewritten and reorganized to reflect major regulatory developments. Highlights include: Techniques used by federal, state, and local politicians to launder money. The new role of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to ensure anti-money laundering compliance by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks. Designing an adequate Customer Identification Program (CIP) for verifying the identity of persons seeking to open an account and checking customer names against terrorist lists. Responding to an information request under Section 314(a) of the Patriot Act. Exercising due diligence when opening and managing correspondent accounts for foreign banks and enhanced due diligence for certain correspondent accounts. Blocking (freezing) assets and property of OFAC-designated countries, entities or individuals, and reporting the blocked transactions. Using automated systems to facilitate BSA reporting, including flagging suspicious activity and large currency transactions.

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Wolters Kluwer

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1454859768

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9781454859765

Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present

From Ancient Times to the Present

By: Cynthia Clark Northrup,Jerry H. Bentley,Alfred E. Eckes, Jr,Patrick Manning,Kenneth Pomeranz,Steven Topik

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Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present

From Ancient Times to the Present

By: Cynthia Clark Northrup,Jerry H. Bentley,Alfred E. Eckes, Jr,Patrick Manning,Kenneth Pomeranz,Steven Topik

Written for high school or beginning undergraduate students, this four-volume reference valiantly attempts to provide a historical framework for the perhaps overly broad concept of world trade. Entry topics were selected on trade organizations, influential people, commodities, events that affected trade, trade routes, navigation, religion, communic

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Routledge

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1317471539

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9781317471530

The European Economy Since 1914

By: Derek Howard Aldcroft,Steven Morewood

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The European Economy Since 1914

By: Derek Howard Aldcroft,Steven Morewood

The European Economy Since 1914 provides an invaluable guide to the major economic changes in both Western and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century.

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0415438896

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Building a Civil Society

Associations, Public Life, and the Origins of Modern Italy

By: Steven C. Soper

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Building a Civil Society

Associations, Public Life, and the Origins of Modern Italy

By: Steven C. Soper

The most passionate advocates of Italy's unification in the nineteenth century possessed an almost limitless faith in the benefits of civic association. They also shared a common concern: once Italian unification was achieved and various freedoms were established, would ordinary Italians naturally become responsible, progressive citizens especially after centuries of foreign rule, regional division, and economic decline? Most unification advocates doubted that their fellow citizens could form a modern, progressive civil society on their own, or that a vibrant association life would develop from the ground up. Building a Civil Society is the first book-length English-language study of associational life in nineteenth-century Italy. Drawing on extensive research in published and unpublished documents including associational records, newspapers, periodicals, government documents, guidebooks, exhibition catalogues, memoirs, and private letters Steven C. Soper provides a complex account of Italian liberalism during Europe's age of association. His study also raises important questions about the role that associations play in emerging democracies.

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1442645032

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Issues in the Establishment of Asset Management Companies

By: Mr.Dong He,Mr.Stefan N. Ingves,Mr.Steven A. Seelig

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Issues in the Establishment of Asset Management Companies

By: Mr.Dong He,Mr.Stefan N. Ingves,Mr.Steven A. Seelig

This paper discusses the role of asset management companies (AMCs) in facilitating bank restructuring and specifies some policy lessons learned from international experience. The paper concludes that there is no single optimal solution but a combination of strategies that will vary from bank to bank and country to country. There are, however, common factors that contribute to the success of an AMC and these include the legal environment, leadership, independence, incentives, and commercial orientation.

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International Monetary Fund

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1451974221

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Modern Actuarial Theory and Practice, Second Edition

By: Philip Booth,Robert Chadburn,Steven Haberman,Dewi James,Zaki Khorasanee,Robert H. Plumb,Ben Rickayzen

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Modern Actuarial Theory and Practice, Second Edition

By: Philip Booth,Robert Chadburn,Steven Haberman,Dewi James,Zaki Khorasanee,Robert H. Plumb,Ben Rickayzen

In the years since the publication of the best-selling first edition, the incorporation of ideas and theories from the rapidly growing field of financial economics has precipitated considerable development of thinking in the actuarial profession. Modern Actuarial Theory and Practice, Second Edition integrates those changes and presents an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of UK and international actuarial theory, practice and modeling. It describes all of the traditional areas of actuarial activity, but in a manner that highlights the fundamental principles of actuarial theory and practice as well as their economic, financial, and statistical foundations.

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CRC Press

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1584883685

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Atlas of the Civil War

By: Steven E. Woodworth,Kenneth J. Winkle

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Atlas of the Civil War

By: Steven E. Woodworth,Kenneth J. Winkle

From two esteemed Civil War historians comes an unparalleled portrait of the war that altered the foundation of America. Pithy text is accented by black and white photography and illustrations that bring key characters and settings to life.

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0195221311

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Valuation for Financial Reporting

Fair Value Measurements and Reporting, Intangible Assets, Goodwill and Impairment

By: Michael J. Mard,James R. Hitchner,Steven D. Hyden

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Valuation for Financial Reporting

Fair Value Measurements and Reporting, Intangible Assets, Goodwill and Impairment

By: Michael J. Mard,James R. Hitchner,Steven D. Hyden

Essential procedures for the measurement and reporting of fair value in Financial statements Trusted specialists Michael Mard, James Hitchner, and Steven Hyden present reliable and thorough guidelines, case studies, implementation aids, and sample reports for managers, auditors, and valuators who must comply with the Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement of Financial Accounting Standards Nos. 141, Business Combinations; 142, Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets; 144, Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets; and the new 157, Fair Value Measurements. This important guide: * Explains the new valuation aspects now required by SFAS No. 157 * Presents the new definition of fair value and certain empirical research * Distinguishes fair value from fair market value * Provides a case study that measures the fair values of intangible assets and goodwill under SFAS Nos. 141 and 157 * Includes a detailed case study that tests the impairment of goodwill and long-lived assets and measures the financial impact of such impairment under SFAS Nos. 142 and 144 * Cross-references and reconciles the valuation industry's reporting standards among all of the valuation organizations * Includes two sample valuation reports, one of which is a new USPAP- compliant PowerPoint? presentation format * Includes implementation aids for controlling the gathering of data necessary for analyses and for guiding the valuation work program

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470173998

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9780470173992

Regulation and Public Interests

The Possibility of Good Regulatory Government

By: Steven P. Croley

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Regulation and Public Interests

The Possibility of Good Regulatory Government

By: Steven P. Croley

Not since the 1960s have U.S. politicians, Republican or Democrat, campaigned on platforms defending big government, much less the use of regulation to help solve social ills. And since the late 1970s, "deregulation" has become perhaps the most ubiquitous political catchword of all. This book takes on the critics of government regulation. Providing the first major alternative to conventional arguments grounded in public choice theory, it demonstrates that regulatory government can, and on important occasions does, advance general interests. Unlike previous accounts, Regulation and Public Interests takes agencies' decision-making rules rather than legislative incentives as a central determinant of regulatory outcomes. Drawing from both political science and law, Steven Croley argues that such rules, together with agencies' larger decision-making environments, enhance agency autonomy. Agency personnel inclined to undertake regulatory initiatives that generate large but diffuse benefits (while imposing smaller but more concentrated costs) can use decision-making rules to develop socially beneficial regulations even over the objections of Congress and influential interest groups. This book thus provides a qualified defense of regulatory government. Its illustrative case studies include the development of tobacco rulemaking by the Food and Drug Administration, ozone and particulate matter rules by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service's "roadless" policy for national forests, and regulatory initiatives by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission.

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Princeton University Press

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1400828147

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9781400828142

China

Economic Reform and Macroeconomic Management

By: Mr.Mario I. Bléjer,Mr.David Burton,Mr.Steven Vincent Dunaway,Mr.Gyorgy Szapary

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China

Economic Reform and Macroeconomic Management

By: Mr.Mario I. Bléjer,Mr.David Burton,Mr.Steven Vincent Dunaway,Mr.Gyorgy Szapary

China encountered problems preserving economic stability while pursuing reforms aimed at increasing its economic flexibility and efficiency. This paper examines China's experience with market-oriented reforms since 1978, offering lessons for other centrally planned economies in the midst of transition to free markets.

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International Monetary Fund

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1557752028

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