Author : C. Mantzavinos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,91 MB
Release : 2004-05-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521548335
This book shows how the institutional framework of a society emerges and how markets within institutions work.
Author : Douglass C. North
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 27,42 MB
Release : 1990-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521397346
An analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies is developed in this analysis of economic structures.
Author : Marcel Fafchamps
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 48,16 MB
Release : 2003-12-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262262703
An analysis of recent data on the economic behavior of market institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, with implications for future research and current policy. In Market Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa, Marcel Fafchamps synthesizes the results of recent surveys of indigenous market institutions in twelve countries, including Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, and Zimbabwe, and presents findings about economics exchange in Africa that have implications both for future research and current policy. Employing empirical data as well as theoretical models that clarify the data, Fafchamps takes as his unifying principle the difficulties of contract enforcement. Arguing that in an unpredictable world contracts are not always likely to be respected, he shows that contract agreements in sub-Saharan Africa are affected by the absence of large hierarchies (both corporate and governmental) and as a result must depend to a greater degree than in more developed economies on social networks and personal trust. Fafchamps considers policy recommendations as they apply to countries in three different stages of development: countries with undeveloped market institutions, like Ghana; countries at an intermediate stage, like Kenya; and countries with developed market institutions, like Zimbabwe. Market Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa caps ten years of personal research by the author. Fafchamps, in collaboration with such institutions as the Africa Division of the World Bank and the International Food Policy Research Institute, participated in the surveys of manufacturing firms and agricultural traders that provide the empirical basis for the book. The result is a work that makes a significant contribution to research on the continuing economic stagnation of many countries in sub-Saharan Africa and is also largely accessible to researchers in other fields and policy professionals.
Author : Gail Rolland
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 33,99 MB
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1119990378
The global financial markets are not just driven by the big investment houses and fund managers. Along with these, private banks, insurance houses, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds and a range of boutique investment managers, regional institutions and brokers of different sizes and nationalities all operate and interact to form the bedrock of the global financial infrastructure. Because of this, it is essential that practitioners and observers of the markets fully understand the linkages, objectives and functions of these institutions, and the new and dynamic environment they are working in. Market Players provides a complete roadmap to the institutions and intermediaries operating in today's global financial landscape, illustrating what they are, how they work, how they interact and importantly, their motivation. It explains the core financial market business of these institutions and considers how they have become the firms that we see today, providing readers with a clear understanding of which market sectors are likely to see the most involvement from the different types of institution and, importantly, why they are involved in these market areas. Key features include: a series of case studies looking at examples of some of these institutions including an explanation of the EIB and the UK agency UKFI. They also look at the financial crisis and the impact on AIG and Northern Rock, two institutions that clearly illustrate what can go wrong and how the other market players have to step in when this happens. an international perspective looking at representative institutions from Europe, Asia and North America, showing global similarities and differences. a Post Financial Crisis perspective on the structure of international banks in today's markets. coverage of the major players on both the buy and sell side of the market Written in plain English, Market Players is an accessible and much needed guide to financial institutions, equipping readers with the knowledge to better understand how the global financial markets really work.
Author : Jakob de Haan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 35,23 MB
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 110702594X
Second edition of a successful textbook that provides an insightful analysis of the world financial system.
Author : Janine Berg
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 36,42 MB
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1784712108
Labour market institutions, including collective bargaining, the regulation of employment contracts and social protection policies, are instrumental for improving the well-being of workers, their families and society. In many countries, these instituti
Author : Alexander Ebner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 28,94 MB
Release : 2008-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199231427
Where do markets come from and what drives their evolution? How do organizations cope with the competitive dynamism of markets? What is the role of governance mechanisms in the institutional coordination of markets? In this book, leading social scientists consider these questions and examine the institutional foundations of economic change.
Author : Avner Greif
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,40 MB
Release : 2006-01-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521480444
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Author : Oliver E. Williamson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 47,9 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 068486374X
This long-awaited sequel to the modem classic "Markets and Hierarchies" develops and extends Williamson's innovative use of transaction cost economics as an approach to studying economic organization by applying it to work and labor as well as the corporation itself. In addition, Williamson explores its growing implications for public policy, including its potential influence on antitrust and merger guidelines, labor policy, and SEC and public utility regulations.
Author : Edward J. Balleisen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 21,3 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521118484
After two generations of emphasis on governmental inefficiency and the need for deregulation, we now see growing interest in the possibility of constructive governance, alongside public calls for new, smarter regulation. Yet there is a real danger that regulatory reforms will be rooted in outdated ideas. As the financial crisis has shown, neither traditional market failure models nor public choice theory, by themselves, sufficiently inform or explain our current regulatory challenges. Regulatory studies, long neglected in an atmosphere focused on deregulatory work, is in critical need of new models and theories that can guide effective policy-making. This interdisciplinary volume points the way toward the modernization of regulatory theory. Its essays by leading scholars move past predominant approaches, integrating the latest research about the interplay between human behavior, societal needs, and regulatory institutions. The book concludes by setting out a potential research agenda for the social sciences.
