Banking

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art research in the field of monetary and financial history. The authors comprise d...

Central banks are becoming a force of economic destabilisation in the 21st century - contrary to accepted notions of contemporary economic theory. ...

If you like your smartphone or your widescreen TV, your car or your pension, then, whether you know it or not, you are a fan of Wall Street.William...

The LIBOR affair has been described as the biggest banking scandal in history, a deception affecting not only banks but also corporations, pension ...

When the first rumblings of the coming financial crisis were heard in August 2007, three men who were never elected to public office suddenly becam...

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was established as an independent government corporation under the authority of the Banking Act of...

Keeping an economy growing over the long run at rates sufficient to provide full employment for labour and capital with low inflation or a stable p...

Weakness in federal oversight was one of many factors that contributed to the size of federal losses and the number of bank failures in banking-rel...