Financial markets have been revolutionized by megaspeed transmission technology and the integration of regional economic blocs. The global village has become a reality as markets are connected across nations by the invisible hand of worldwide trade. This title explores these recent changes in financial markets. Areas discussed include Latin America, Europe, the US, Mexico and India. The book updates issues including: risk and its minimization; business enterprise on world markets; capital flows and capital flights; offshore markets; and central bank intervention.
Financial markets have been revolutionized by megaspeed transmission technology and the integration of regional economic blocs. The global village has...
An outstanding work, written to celebrate the seventieth birthday of Jagdish Bhagwati; the foremost defender of free trade and its role in developing economies in the world today, this rigorously academic and critical volume represents an important contribution to the understanding of many aspects of globalization. The editors, affiliated with four of the leading economics departments in the USA bring together a stellar line of contributors from across the world to discuss the themes and arguments raised by Bhagwati's latest work.
A renowned professor of economics and regarded as...
An outstanding work, written to celebrate the seventieth birthday of Jagdish Bhagwati; the foremost defender of free trade and its role in developi...
Petroleum taxation is the universal instrument through which governments seek to determine the crucial balance between the financial interests of the oil companies and the owners of the resource. This book addresses how governments have and continue to approach this problem, the impacts of different policy choices and how these are being adapted to changing business conditions. Carole Nakhle presents the reader with an illuminating and robust analysis of the entire taxation story, from the basic theoretical considerations through to advanced computations applied to various tax regimes....
Petroleum taxation is the universal instrument through which governments seek to determine the crucial balance between the financial interests of t...
Murray C. Kemp is one of Australia's foremost economists. He has held positions across the world including London School of Economics, U.C. Berkeley, Columbia University, McGill University, MIT, and latterly Macquarie University. Kemp was a Member of Council for the Econometric Society and was a Distinguished Fellow of the Economics Society of Australia. He has served as President of the International Economics and Finance Society. In 1987 he was awarded the Humboldt Foundation Prize.
This book brings together several essays on the current state of the theory of international trade....
Murray C. Kemp is one of Australia's foremost economists. He has held positions across the world including London School of Economics, U.C. Berkele...
The historical development of capital has produced a progressive increase in the demand for raw material and has consequently resulted in the concentration of capital in, and the geographical expansion of, the production of natural resources, globalizing and intensifying the competition for the control of production and markets.
This book is an attempt to explain, at the theoretical and empirical level, the relationship between the production of oil and the process of inter-capitalist competition in the global economy, and why it is necessary to appreciate the underlying...
The historical development of capital has produced a progressive increase in the demand for raw material and has consequently resulted in the conce...
