Exchange Rates and Corporate Performance

Exchange Rates and Corporate Performance
Author: Yakov Amihud
Publisher: Beard Books
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781587981593

This is a reprint of a previously published book. It consists of a series of papers by experts in the field on how the exchange rate volatility of the 1980s affected the financial policies of international firms.

Bank Privatization and Productivity

Bank Privatization and Productivity
Author: Márcio Issao Nakane
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2005
Genre: Banks and banking
ISBN:

Over the past decade, the Brazilian banking industry has undergone major and deep transformations with several privatizations of state-owned banks, mergers and acquisitions, closing down of troubled banks, entry by foreign banks, and so on. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impacts of these changes in banking on total factor productivity. The authors first obtain measures of bank level productivity by employing the techniques due to Levinsohn and Petrin (2003). They then relate such measures to a set of bank characteristics. Their main results indicate that state-owned banks are less productive than their private peers, and that privatization has increased productivity.

Commodity Prices and Markets

Commodity Prices and Markets
Author: Takatoshi Ito
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2011-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0226386899

Fluctuations of commodity prices, most notably of oil, capture considerable attention and have been tied to important economic effects. This book advances our understanding of the consequences of these fluctuations, providing both general analysis and a particular focus on the countries of the Pacific Rim.

Currencies, Commodities and Consumption

Currencies, Commodities and Consumption
Author: Kenneth W. Clements
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2013-01-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 110701476X

Discusses economic issues associated with exchange rates, commodity prices, the economic size of countries and alternatives to PPP exchange rates.

Exchange-Rate Determination

Exchange-Rate Determination
Author: Anne O. Krueger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1983-03-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521273015

This volume provides a survey of thought about exchange-rate determination as it emerged in the 1970s.

The East Asian Crisis

The East Asian Crisis
Author: Ms.Kalpana Kochhar
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 56
Release: 1998-09-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451935544

This paper reviews macroeconomic developments during the first year of the crisis in east Asia and draws some preliminary policy lessons. The crisis is rooted in the interaction of large capital inflows and weak private and public sector governance. At the same time, macroeconomic adjustment in these countries has resulted in some surprising outcomes, including severe economic contractions, low inflation, and rapid external adjustment. The lessons for crisis resolution include the importance of tight monetary policy early on for exchange rate stabilization, flexible fiscal policy, and comprehensive structural reform. Crises are avoided by prudent macroeconomic policies, diligent bank supervision, transparent data dissemination, strong governance, and forward-looking policymaking, even in good times.

The Monetary Approach to the Balance of Payments

The Monetary Approach to the Balance of Payments
Author: Jacob Frenkel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2013-07-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135043493

This book collects together the basic documents of an approach to the theory and policy of the balance of payments developed in the 1970s. The approach marked a return to the historical traditions of international monetary theory after some thirty years of departure from them – a departure occasioned by the international collapse of the 1930s, the Keynesian Revolution and a long period of war and post-war reconstruction in which the international monetary system was fragmented by exchange controls, currency inconvertibility and controls over international trade and capital movements.

Business, Economics, Financial Sciences, and Management

Business, Economics, Financial Sciences, and Management
Author: Min Zhu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 860
Release: 2012-02-11
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 364227966X

A series of papers on business, economics, and financial sciences, management selected from International Conference on Business, Economics, and Financial Sciences, Management are included in this volume. Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an organization (a group of one or more people or entities) or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal. Resourcing encompasses the deployment and manipulation of human resources, financial resources, technological resources and natural resources. The proceedings of BEFM2011 focuses on the various aspects of advances in Business, Economics, and Financial Sciences, Management and provides a chance for academic and industry professionals to discuss recent progress in the area of Business, Economics, and Financial Sciences, Management. It is hoped that the present book will be useful to experts and professors, both specialists and graduate students in the related fields.