Spanish Money and Banking


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This book incorporates advances in financial and monetary history and theory and shows the relevance of Spain's story to modern banking, monetary and development theory. It studies the early development of banking and monetary institutions and shows how financial and monetary mismanagement contributed to the decline of Spain in the early modern era




Banking on Privilege


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Sofia A. Perez has written a historically informed account of the politics of domestic financial liberalization in Spain in the past twenty-five years. She challenges the widespread assumption that international market forces alone explain domestic reforms in a formerly interventionist state. In Spain, she suggests, domestic elites seized on liberal economic arguments to promote agendas that had less to do with international pressures than with domestic politics.




Spanish Money and Banking


Book Description

This book incorporates advances in financial and monetary history and theory and shows the relevance of Spain's story to modern banking, monetary and development theory. It studies the early development of banking and monetary institutions and shows how financial and monetary mismanagement contributed to the decline of Spain in the early modern era




Sveriges Riksbank and the History of Central Banking


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Offers a comprehensive analysis of the historical experiences of monetary policymaking of the world's largest central banks. Written in celebration of the 350th anniversary of the central bank of Sweden, Sveriges Riksbank. Includes chapters on other banks around the world written by leading economic scholars.




¿Se Habla Dinero?


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A bilingual guide to the basics of financial success. Getting ahead financially in the United States is a difficult task, and it is even more daunting for someone who comes from a different culture. That’s why author Lynn Jimenez has created ¿Se Habla Dinero?: The Everyday Guide to Financial Success. This book offers information needed for financial survival and success, simply and clearly, in both English and Spanish. ¿Se Habla Dinero? walks readers through the fundamentals of personalfinance and money management and explains how to open and use bank accounts; establish and manage credit; save and borrow money for education; and master basic investing techniques. This bilingual guide makes intimidating topics easy and gives readers the confidence they need to move forward. Hispanics are moving into this nation’s middle class at a rapid pace. ¿Se Habla Dinero? will be an important tool to help them climb the ladder of financial success. Lynn Jimenez (San Francisco, CA) is an award-winning business reporter For KGO Radio 810. She has delivered fast-paced business reports from the options floor of the New York Stock Exchange for 17 years. Una guía bilingüe que proporciona las bases del éxito económico. Salir adelante económicamente en Estados Unidos es una labor ardua, y más difícil todavía para aquellos que provienen de culturas diferentes. Esta es la razón por la que la autora Lynn Jiménez ha creado ¿Se Habla Dinero?: la guía diaria que le llevará al éxito financiero. Este libro ofrece en dos idiomas: inglés y español y de manera sencilla y clara, la información necesaria para la supervivencia y el éxito financiero. ¿Se Habla Dinero? Guía al lector a través de las nociones fundamentales de economía personal y administración del dinero. Explica cómo abrir y usar cuentas bancarias, cómo establecer y administrar crédito, cómo ahorrar y tomar prestado dinero para la educación y cómo manejar técnicas de inversión básicas. Esta guía bilingüe hace que algunos aspectos intimidatorios resulten fáciles y proporciona a sus lectores la confianza que necesitan para seguir adelante. La población hispana hoy en día está alcanzando rápidamente la clase media de esta nación. ¿Se Habla Dinero? Es una herramienta importante que ayudará a sus lectores a subir la escala del éxito financiero. Lynn Jimenez de San Francisco, California, es una reportera de negocios galardonada que trabaja para la estación de Radio 810 KGO. También ha transmitido reportajes breves de negocios desde el piso de opciones de la Bolsa de Nueva York en San Francisco por diez ye siete años.




Spain


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This report summarizes the findings of the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) Update for Spain. Although there is a core of strong banks that are well managed and appear resilient to further shocks, vulnerabilities remain. Substantial progress has been made in reforming the former savings banks, and the most vulnerable institutions have either been resolved or are being restructured. Recent measures address the most problematic part of banks’ portfolios. Moving ahead, a further restructuring and recapitalization of some of the remaining weaker banks may be needed as a result of deteriorating economic conditions.







Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics


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Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics traces the linked history of the new nations of Mexico and the United States from the 1770s to the 1860s. Tatiana Seijas and Jake Frederick highlight the common challenges facing both countries in their early decades of independence by exploring the creation of coin money. The remarkable story begins when both countries chose the Spanish piece of eight (silver coin) as their monetary standard. The authors examine how each nation instituted its own currency, designed coins to represent its national ideals, and then spent decades trying to establish the legitimacy of its money. Readers learn about the creation and circulation of money through the stories of a banker in Philadelphia, a Mexican general in Texas, a surveyor in Sonora, and others. The focus on individuals provides an engaging window into the economic history of Mexico and the United States. Seijas and Frederick show how the creation of U.S. dollars and Mexican pesos paralleled these countries’ efforts to establish enduring political and economic systems, illustrating why these nations closed the nineteenth century on very different historical trajectories.




Safeguarding the Euro in Times of Crisis


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This book tells the inside story of those who played key roles in setting up the organisations and combatting the crisis. In exclusive interviews, global financial leaders and ESM insiders provide a rich stock of perspectives and anecdotes that bring to life the urgency of the crisis as well as the innovative solutions found to resolve it. The European Stability Mechanism and its temporary predecessor the EFSF provided billions of euros in loans to five hard-hit euro area countries during the European financial and sovereign debt crisis of the early 2000s, helping to safeguard the stability of those countries and the euro area as a whole. Initially, the crisis-torn euro area was ill-equipped institutionally, but the rapid establishment of the firewalls, the assistance programmes, deep‐seated country reforms, the strengthening of European institutions, and extraordinary European Central Bank measures shielded Europe from a euro area break-up. With the EFSF/ESM set-up, its managers aspired to create a new, more entrepreneurial international financial institution, one that is agile enough to respond quickly to new challenges, while still ensuring the strict governance befitting an organisation pursuing a public mission. The euro area has emerged from near disaster in more robust shape. As Europe strives to further strengthen its architecture in preparation for any possible future crises, it is important to reflect upon how the euro area reinvigorated its fortunes and draw the relevant lessons for future crisis management in Europe and beyond.