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Title:International Finance & Financial Services
Author:Kristian L Hagen (ed)
ISBN:1600217567 : 9781600217562
Illustrations:tables & charts
Format:Hardback
Size:180x260mm
Pages:259
Weight: .786 Kg.
Published:Nova Science Publishers - May 2008
List Price: 85.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:FINANCE & ACCOUNTING


International finance is the branch of economics that studies the dynamics of exchange rates, foreign investment, and how these affect international trade. Financial services is a term used to refer to the services provided by the finance industry. Financial services is also the term used to describe organisations that deal with the management of money and includes merchant banks, credit card companies, consumer finance companies, government sponsored enterprises, and stock brokerages. Financial services is the largest industry (or industry category) in the world, in terms of earnings. This book presents important analyses in these interaction fields.

Preface; Trade Integration, Competition, and the Decline in Exchange-Rate Pass-Through; Does the Time Inconsistency Problem make flexible Exchange Rates look worse than you think?; Asymmetry in the Interest-Rate Volatility Transmission Mechanism: The German Leadership Hypothesis; Irreversibility and Costs of Adjustment; Earnings Management and Internal Control Mechanisms: Evidence from Chilean Firms; International Fiscal Competition, Transfer Pricing and Multinational Firms' Strategies; The World Competition Agency as a Necessary International Institution; The Development of the Single European Market for Financial Services and its Effects on Slovenia; Progressing towards Legitimacy: Financial Services Sector Policymaking in the EU After Lamfalussy; It Service Delivery: Cost and Core Competency in Financial Services; Index.