Finance and Accounting

Financial derivatives allow users to manage or hedge business risks that arise from volatile commodity prices, interest rates, foreign currencies a...

There are important lessons to be learned and analytical frameworks to be adapted and reused from the body of reference provided by the past histor...

This book presents a new approach to the public sector of the economy through the presentation of various issues relating to public-private partner...

The bankruptcy filing of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc (LBHI) on 15 September 2008, was one of the signal events of the financial crisis. The disord...

Microcredit banking is the brainchild of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus Professor of Economics at Chittagong University, Bangla...

Microcredit banking is the brainchild of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus Professor of Economics at Chittagong University, Bangla...

When federal agencies and programs lack funding after the expiration of full-year or interim appropriations, the agencies and programs experience a...

The Basel III international regulatory framework, which was produced in 2010 by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision at the Bank for Internat...

401(k) plan participants separating from their employers must decide what to do with their plan savings. Many roll over their plan savings to IRAs....

Little public data are available to assess the extent to which sponsors of defined benefit plans are offering participants immediate lump sums to r...

In 1913, Congress created the Federal Reserve System to serve as the central bank for the United States. The Federal Reserve formulates the nation'...

Critics of the Federal Reserve (Fed) have long argued for more oversight, transparency, and disclosure. Criticism intensified following the extensi...

In 2014, the federal government will forgo an estimated $17.45 billion in tax revenue from IRAs, which Congress created to ensure equitable tax tre...

The deepening of the financial crisis in 2008 led the Federal Reserve (Fed) to revive an obscure provision found in Section 13(3) of the Federal Re...

In the fall of 2008, facing losses on various operations, AIG experienced a significant decline in its stock price and downgrades from the major cr...

The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), a wholly-owned U.S. government corporation, is referred to as the U.S. development finance inst...

When making a decision about housing, a household must choose between renting and owning. Multiple factors, such as a household''s financial status...

This book presents and discusses various economic and financial issues with a particular focus on how these issues and policies directly affect con...

Since the end of the recession, the gross domestic product has grown slowly and unemployment has remained at a high level. While the economy is sti...

From fiscal year 2008 to fiscal year 2012, the U.S. Export-Import Bank''s (Ex-Im) outstanding financial commitments (exposure) grew from about $59 ...

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd- Frank Act) mandates that GAO report on an ongoing basis on ways to make the Co...

This book presents the results of a study of FDIC-supervised institutions with significant acquisition, development, and construction (ADC) loan co...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is an increasingly important driver of the global economy. In the absence of an overarching multilateral framework ...