Offshore Financial Centers Accounting Services And The Global Economy
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Author | : Don E. Garner |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2000-07-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0313000727 |
The new global climate of free enterprise has brought with it a proliferation of offshore financial centers that presumably have important roles to play in the emergent global economy. The air of secrecy that appears to pervade the activities of offshore financial centers may well slant or obscure any real understanding of the functions of such centers. The authors investigate the role of major international accounting firms and their services in the processes of business facilitation in the locations that host these centers. By focusing the investigation upon the role of the accounting firms in offshore financial centers, the authors gain a better grasp of the real or potential impacts of the firms in the global economy and in the jurisdictions that host them. Not only do the authors provide a detailed assessment of what the major accounting firms are actually doing in the centers, but they point out what attributes are needed by jurisdictions hoping to succeed as offshore financial centers. The centers included are Antigua, Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Mauritius, the Seychelles, Singapore, and Vanuatu. The authors describe the legal and institutional environments facing business operations in general and the accounting firms in particular in offshore financial centers. By studying these operations, it should show what they are doing in terms of facilitating the international activities that flow through such centers. It should also add to the understanding of the potential that offshore activities have as vehicles for development in small emerging economies. This study should be of interest to a wide range of business disciplines, as well as governmental agencies in advanced and emerging nations, international agencies such as regional development banks, and accountants and the international financial community.
Author | : William Brittain-Catlin |
Publisher | : Picador |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2006-06-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780312425586 |
An unknown realm to many investors, offshore finance allows giant corporations--such as Wal-Mart, British Petroleum, and Citigroup--to legally keep huge profits out of sight of regulators and the public. William Brittain-Catlin tells the story of how tax havens in the Caribbean and elsewhere have become central to global finance today. He takes us through the secret networks of Enron and Parmalat, behind international trade disputes, and into organized crime and terror. This book gives disquieting evidence that, as a result of offshore practices, the key value of capitalism and civilization alike--freedom--is being put in grave danger.
Author | : Jason P Abbottd |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2016-07-27 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1349147524 |
Offshore finance has transformed many small jurisdictions into high income economies and has facilitated the growth of global financial markets, deregulation and the convergence of economic policies worldwide. However, the volatility and fickle nature of global capital has also become apparent. This major new multi-disciplinary and international collection explores the development of offshore finance and is an extremely valuable resource for all those considering the issues involved in this important area.
Author | : Mark P. Hampton |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1996-11-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780333616970 |
This book opens up the secret world of tax havens and offshore finance centres (OFCs), a vast offshore business valued at over one trillion US dollars. It is a timely and original analysis of the role of OFCs in the emerging global economy. The book discusses who uses OFCs, how OFCs work and what drives their development. Extensive use of case study material from Jersey illustrates the growth of a successful OFC and its impact upon a small island.
Author | : Andrew P. Morriss |
Publisher | : A E I Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780844743240 |
In Offshore Financial Centers and Regulatory Competition, a group of leading international law and finance experts argues that offshore jurisdictions have become key players in corporate finance and captive insurance markets.
Author | : Justin Robertson |
Publisher | : Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-09-25 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 9780367751111 |
Robertson and Tyrala provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of emerging markets and the offshore economic system. An insightful study for scholars of international political economy.
Author | : W. Vlcek |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2008-07-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781349356935 |
One path towards development taken by a number of small jurisdictions is the establishment of an offshore financial centre. This text analyses the actual economic contribution for several small Caribbean economies and the impact to continued operation arising from an international initiative for the exchange of taxpayer information.
Author | : Richard Anthony Johns |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2013-11-07 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1472505883 |
Tax Havens and Offshore Finance examines the subject of offshore finance centres.
Author | : Christopher M. Bruner |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0190466898 |
Small jurisdictions have become significant players in cross-border corporate and financial services. Their nature, legal status, and market roles, however, remain under-theorized. Lacking a sufficiently nuanced framework to describe their functions in cross-border finance - and the peculiar strengths of those achieving global dominance in the marketplace - it remains impossible to evaluate their impacts in a comprehensive manner. This book advances a new conceptual framework to refine the analysis and direct it toward more productive inquiries. Bruner canvasses extant theoretical frameworks used to describe and evaluate the roles of small jurisdictions in cross-border finance. He then proposes a new concept that better captures the characteristics, competitive strategies, and market roles of those achieving global dominance in the marketplace - the "market-dominant small jurisdiction" (MDSJ). Bruner identifies the central features giving rise to such jurisdictions' competitive strengths - some reflect historical, cultural, and geographic circumstances, while others reflect development strategies pursued in light of those circumstances. Through this lens, he evaluates a range of small jurisdictions that have achieved global dominance in specialized areas of cross-border finance, including Bermuda, Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Switzerland, and Delaware. Bruner further tests the MDSJ concept's explanatory power through a broader comparative analysis, and he concludes that the MDSJs' significance will likely continue to grow - as will the need for a more effective means of theorizing their roles in cross-border finance and the global dynamics generated by their ascendance.
Author | : Ronen Palan |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780801472954 |
The atlas of contemporary capitalism is curious indeed. A desperately poor and civil-war-wracked nation, Liberia, is the world's shipping superpower; the Cayman Islands the fifth-largest financial center in the world; land-locked Zurich a venerable "offshore" banking center. Indeed, it is estimated that half of the global stock of money passes through tax havens. The logic of the offshore world, where millionaires and corporations roam in search of financial advantage, is slippery. It challenges many conventional assumptions about power and economics.In the single most comprehensive account of the offshore economy, Ronen Palan investigates the legal spaces, unregulated and yet maintained and supported by the state system, that have emerged for purposes of international finance, tax havens, export processing zones, flags of convenience, and e-commerce. The offshore economy had its beginnings in the late nineteenth century, saw early development after the First World War, and metastasized in the 1970s. Palan believes that a rapidly expanding offshore economy is now producing a new market in sovereignty; states have discovered that their rights to write law may be used as a commercial asset. This commercialization of sovereignty, he asserts, undermines the legitimacy of the nation-state and supports a form of nomadic capitalism.