Finance and Accounting

Never has there been so much media interest in pensions as there is currently. Never has the pensions world changed so rapidly as it has over the l...

This controversial and authoritative account of budget-making and budgetary politics, the author traces the origins and development of Japan's pres...

Developments in theories of financial markets and institutions, using the tools of the economics of uncertainty and of contracts, as well as result...

Financial Economics is an exciting new field of study that integrates the theory of finance and financial institutions into the main body of econom...

Making Fiscal Policy in Japan is written for those who want to understand the role and performance of fiscal policy as an integral component of mac...

Contributors: N. Dimsdale, J. Kay, P. Marsh, J. Charkham, A. Sykes, D. McWilliams, A. Sentance, M. Middleton, D. Lomax, C. Mayer, A. Beecroft, A. H...

By August 1998, the Hong Kong economy had become threatened not only by the natural consequences of the Asian crisis (1997/8), but also by waves of...

Getting organizations going is one thing. Stopping them is another. This book examines how and why organizations become trapped in disastrous decis...

This is a book about shareholders -- who they are, what they own, how their composition and character has changed, and with it their relationship w...

The nature of technical expertise has become increasingly important and problematic in the post-modern era, as structured hierarchies and productio...

3i (Investors in Industry, and formerly the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation, etc.) is Britain's leading venture capital company. Foun...

The Treasury is at the heart of British Government, responsible for deciding how much to spend and on what. Both the institution and the public exp...

In 2001, the London Stock Exchange will be 200 years old, though its origins go back a century before that. This book traces the history of the Lon...

There is little doubt that corporate governance has become one of the key issues for students of business and management in the 1990s. The text is ...

Kleinwort Benson is one of the most distinguished international investment banks in the City of London, becoming part of the Dresdner Bank Group in...

How Low Interest Rates Change the World explores the societal impact of changing interest rates. Taking its starting point in the remarkable four-d...

Dividends are not only a signal about a firm's prospects under asymmetric information, but they can also act as a corporate governance device to al...

The choice of currency denomination, indexation, and maturity structure of public debt is an increasingly important aspect of policy in a world of ...

This book provides detailed independent analyses of the successes and limitations of one of the most successful economic relationships in recent hi...

This book presents startling evidence that state monopolies can produce better outcomes than the free market. It provides an empirical comparison o...

This Handbook aims to be the most comprehensive and up to date reference book available to those who are involved - or could be involved - in the w...