This fifth extensively revised and updated edition gives a practical overview of contemporary finance from a New Zealand perspective. Written by ex...

Research shows that spending on health care varies by geographic area and that higher spending in an area is not always associated with better qual...

The past two decades have witnessed tremendous change and growth in the financial sector in countries across the globe. At the heart of this sector...

The past two decades have witnessed both tremendous change and tremendous growth in the financial sector in countries across the globe. At the same...

This book explores the ways in which global stock exchanges work. A stock exchange or share market is a corporation or mutual organisation which pr...

Text in Persian. Hassanali Mehran, who headed the Central Bank of Iran for more than two years, describes the goals and the policies of the bank fr...

In ‘Heat, Dust, and Taxes,’ Lex Fullarton explores the taxpayer compliance behavior of blue-collar workers in the Pilbara region of Western Austral...

Since the 1998 near collapse of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), a large hedge fund -- a pooled investment vehicle that is privately managed an...

Concern has increased over the size and sustainability of the United States' recent budget deficits and the country's long-run budget outlook. This...

Like the crisis in the banking system, the foreclosure problem has grown so large that it threatens the entire economy. Foreclosures depress housin...

The long-term trend in declining retirement security has been exacerbated by the recent turmoil in the financial markets, and underscores the need ...

Recent developments in the sub-prime home loan market have triggered concern in Congress and the public at large as to whether borrowers were fully...

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...

Individual retirement accounts, or IRAs, hold more assets than any other type of retirement vehicle. In 2004, IRAs held about $3.5 trillion in asse...

This book focuses on borrower default. A probit model is used to estimate the probability of default/rescheduling. In most studies of country risk,...

Audit activities help ensure taxpayers pay the right amount of tax and help address the net $385 billion tax gap—the difference between the amount ...

Reports by the public of suspected underreporting of taxes or other tax violations can help IRS detect millions of dollars in taxes that would othe...

From the time of Elizabeth I in the second half of the sixteenth century, London has dominated the marine insurance markets. This led the English t...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountabil...

This is the only truly comprehensive work on marine insurance in the United States published since the last edition of Phillips on Insurance in 186...

This book deals with the complex and often challenging process for international companies in expanding their business through investing in the Ind...