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...

A loan that uses real estate as collateral is typically referred to as a mortgage. The U.S. mortgage market is one of the largest markets in the wo...

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...

Part of the Department of Labor's (DOL) mission is to promote the retirement security of America’s workers, a goal that has become increasingly cha...

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...

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...

This book explores federal privacy laws, information resellers and their ability to safeguard all sensitive data. The growth of information reselle...

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was established as an independent government corporation under the authority of the Banking Act of...

Despite the recent trend towards accounting homogenisation across countries, there are still substantial differences world-wide in accounting stand...

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

International finance is the branch of economics that studies the dynamics of exchange rates, foreign investment, and how these affect internationa...

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

Financial statement analysis involves an understanding of an entity by applying analytical techniques to its accounting numbers. However, financia...

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...

This book provides an analysis of select programs relating to life insurance. Topics include the Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance program (F...

A life settlement is a transaction in which an insurance policy owner sells a life insurance policy to a third party for an amount that exceeds the...

Liquidity refers to the degree to which an asset or security can be bought or sold in the market without affecting the asset's price. This book pro...

Student loan forgiveness and loan repayment programs provide borrowers a means of having all or part of their student loan debt forgiven or repaid ...

Book & CD-ROM. This book contains the fully-indexed text of the SEC investigation of the failure to uncover the Bernard Madoff Ponzi Scheme. Th...

As anyone knows who has tried to organise any sort of group, from a book club to the National Trust, from a scout troop to a business networking gr...

This book is an overview of issues associated with the marriage penalty. The first section explains how the marriage penalty (and the marriage bonu...

Medicare is a nation-wide health insurance programme for the aged and certain disabled persons. Over its 32 year history, it has provided important...

Medicare is an American health insurance programme for the aged and certain disabled persons. Over its nearly 35-year history, it has provided impo...

Through a variety of new mobile applications ("apps"), technology is rapidly changing the way consumers shop. Today's mobile apps offer new benefic...

The consumer financial services market has seen the increasing use and proliferation of mobile technology to access financial services and manage p...

The current U.S. financial regulatory system has relied on a fragmented and complex arrangement of federal and state regulators, put into place ove...

The insurance sector is a significant part of the U.S. economy (with one estimate putting it at 7 percent of GDP) and an essential asset protection...

Changing the growth of money supply will change the rate of return on money which will then change the steady-state capital-labour ratio. Changes i...

Money is, of course, something with which everyone is familiar. But how many people truly understand the role money plays in the society? Judging f...

In this first book of the series "Money, Economics, and Finance: Developments, Analyses, and Research", topics discussed include a brief history of...

In this second book of the series, topics discussed include the economic significance, current risk, and policy responses to deflation; crowd-fundi...