uncovering the damage of offshore banking and tax havens

... the City of London, once the capital of the greatest empire the world has known, is the center of the most important part of the global offshore system The City’s offshore ... each other against the ordinary citizens of these poor countries and against their own citizens too The United States anchors the third big offshore pole Before the great global offshore ... will take them by the hand and do them justice.” It is easy to see, in light of examples like this, why offshore business is so often described as unpatriotic Offshore corporate tax avoidance...

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... Brian, Doug, and many more family, friends, and colleagues. Finally, I offer my heartfelt gratitude to my mother, father, grandmother and grandfather, who shared their love of reading and learning ... of competition indicators 96 Results of hypothesis testing 99 Hypothesis 1 100 Hypothesis 2 101 Hypothesis 3 102 Hypothesis 4 103 Hypothesis 5 103 Hypothesis 6 104 Summary of hypothesis ... acceptable standards, and as such is fully adequate in scope and quality. It is therefore approved as the fulfillment of the Dissertation requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Business Administration....

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... mobile phones and the Internet than are Americans Finland has the highest per capita use of mobile phones in the world, and Finland and Sweden lead the world in the percentage of the population ... the Internet Maybe these usage patterns stem from the low population densities of these countries and the cold and dark winters that keep Scandinavians inside at their PCs For their part, Scandinavians ... the right course of action Figure plots the growth rates M1, M2, and M3 from 1960 to 2002 The growth rates of these three monetary aggregates tend to move together; the timing of their rise and...

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... run the program. value of the bond is calculated as the sum of the present values of all the coupon pay- ments plus the present value of the final payment of the face value of the bond. The present ... simply that you enter the amount of the yearly coupon payment C, the face value F, the number of years to maturity n, and the price of the bond P and then run the program. Price of Bond ($) Yield ... the duration of a portfolio of securities is the weighted average of the durations of. .. face value and will then purchase another one at the end of the first year If the...

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... (The Enron bankruptcy, the largest ever in the United States, will be discussed further in Chapter 8.) Because of the scale of the bankruptcy and the questions it raised about the quality of the ... expectations then simply says: X e ϭ X of (6) That is, the expectation of X... 1 (say, the end of 2000 to the end of 2001) Ptϩ1 ϭ price of the security at time t ϩ 1, the end of the ... of a liquidity (term) premium and the. .. for the expectation of this variable ( Joe’s expectation of his driving time), and X of CHAPTER 7 The Stock Market, the Theory of...

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... in the southern... they work for, the stockholders who own most of the firm’s equity (called the principals) are not the same people as the managers of the firm, who are the ... currencies, and the sharp increase in the value of these liabilities after the devaluation lead to a further deterioration in the banks’ balance sheets Under these circumstances, the banking ... selection and moral hazard problems in the credit markets of Mexico, East Asia, and Argentina, explains the collapse of lending and hence economic activity in the aftermath of the...

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... advocates and opponents of centralized banking power were a recurrent theme during the operation of this second attempt at central banking in the United States, and with the election of Andrew Jackson, ... price of personal computers and their increasing presence in the home, we have seen a further innovation in the home banking area, the appear- ance of a new type of banking institution, the virtual ... the decline in the number of banks since 19 85 Another result of the loosening of restrictions... benefits of bank consolidation and nationwide banking The elimination of...

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... 1950s, they held on the order of 1% of corporate stock outstanding; currently they hold on the order of 25%. Pension funds are now the dominant players in the stock market. Although the purpose of ... with the bursting of the tech bubble in 2000, many of them lost much of their wealth when the value of their shares came down to earth When the corporation decides which kind of ... the price of the futures contract to be the same as the price of the underlying bond,... and audits the brokers, traders, and exchanges to prevent fraud and to ensure the...

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... secretary of the FOMC, the Board’s director of the Research and Statistics Division and his deputy, and the. .. on both the economy and the state of the banking system ... Bank Act of 1946 gave the government statutory authority over the Bank of England The Court (equivalent to a board of directors) of the Bank of England is made up of the governor ... with the chancellor of the Exchequer (the equivalent of the U.S secretary of the Treasury) All of this changed when the new... residents of the United Kingdom.) The inflation...

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... in the money supply. The money multiplier reflects the effect on the money supply of other factors besides the monetary base, and the following model will explain the factors that deter- mine the ... depositors, the excess reserves ratio desired by banks, and the required reserve ratio set by the Fed affect the multiplier m. We begin the derivation of the model of the money supply with the equation: ... sheet of the Fed and the amount of reserves The market for reserves is where the federal funds rate is determined, and this is why we turn to a supply -and- demand analysis of ...

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... t VI Monetary Theory [...]... expectation of the variable inside the parentheses Var ϭ variance of the variable inside the parentheses If A is the fraction of the portfolio ... and affect their conclusions about whether the quantity of money is the primary determinant of aggregate spending: Is the demand for money sensitive... developed a theory of the ... result of this evidence, the M1 money demand function became the conventional money demand function used by economists The Case of the Missing Money The stability of the demand...

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... understand the differences in their views about the importance of monetary policy, we need to look at the nature of the two types of evi- dence and the advantages and disadvantages of each. The ... in the money supply and output are perfectly correlated; that is, the money supply M and output Y move upward and downward at the same time. The result is that the peaks and troughs of the M and ... Scandals and the Slow Recovery from the March 2001 Recession The collapse of the tech boom and the stock market... time the economy has returned to the natural rate level of...

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... Which of the following not provide charters? A) The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency B) The Federal Reserve System C) The National Credit Union Administration D) State banking and insurance ... Edition 2) Savings and loan associations are regulated by the A) Federal Reserve System B) Securities and Exchange Commission C) Office of the Comptroller of the Currency D) Office of Thrift Supervision ... and the price in the secondary market sets the price that the corporation would receive if they choose to sell more stock in the primary market Ques Status: New Economics of Money, Banking, and...

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... Which of the following not provide charters? A) The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency B) The Federal Reserve System C) The National Credit Union Administration D) State banking and insurance ... Securities and Exchange Commission C) Office of the Comptroller of the Currency D) Office of Thrift Supervision Answer: D Ques Status: Previous Edition AACSB: Analytic skills 12) The regulatory ... undergo the least price fluctuations because of A) the short terms to maturity for the securities B) the heavy regulations in the industry C) the price ceiling imposed by government regulators D) the...

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... market? Answer: The existence of the secondary market makes their stock more liquid and the price in the secondary market sets the price that the corporation would receive if they choose to sell ... economy because they provide liquidity services, they lower transaction costs through economies of scale, they reduce the risk exposure of investors through risk sharing, and they solve the asymmetric ... Summarize the basic function performed by financial markets 2.7 Regulation of the Financial System 1) Which of the following is not a goal of financial regulation? A) Ensuring the soundness of the...

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... are the price of money • Prior to 1980, the rate of money growth and the interest rate on long-term Treasury bonds were closely tied • Since then, the relationship is less clear but the rate of ... (GDP), is the market value of all final goods and services produced in a country during the course of a year • Aggregate income, the total income of factors of production (land, labor, and capital) ... Money, Banking, and Financial Markets • A simplified approach to the demand for assets • The concept of equilibrium • Basic supply and demand to explain behavior in financial markets • The search...

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... Compare and contrast direct and indirect finance • Identify the structure and components of financial markets • List and describe the different types of financial market instruments • Recognize the ... relate to financial intermediaries • List and describe the different types of financial intermediaries • Identify the reasons for and list the types of financial market regulations 1-4 © 2016 ... Chapter An Overview of the Financial System 20-1 © 2016 Pearson Education Ltd All rights reserved Preview • This chapter presents an overview of the study of financial markets and institutions...

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... List and summarize the functions of money Identify different types of payment systems Compare and contrast the M1 and M2 money supplies © 2016 Pearson Education Ltd All rights reserved Meaning of ... against the disappearance of the paper system • However, the use of e-money will likely still increase in the future 1-10 © 2016 Pearson Education Ltd All rights reserved Will Bitcoin Become the ... Although Bitcoin functions as a medium of exchange it is unlikely to become the money of the future because it performs less well as a unit of account and a store of value 1-11 © 2016 Pearson Education...

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... rights reserved The Distinction Between Interest Rates and Returns • The more distant a bond’s maturity, the lower the rate of return the occurs as a result of an increase in the interest rate ... Bond • When the coupon bond is priced at its face value, the yield to maturity equals the coupon rate • The price of a coupon bond and the yield to maturity are negatively related • The yield to ... Ltd All rights reserved The Distinction Between Interest Rates and Returns • Rate of Return: The payments to the owner plus the change in value expressed as a fraction of the purchase price P -P...

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... • Describe the connection between the bond market and the money market through the liquidity preference framework • List and describe the factors that affect the money market and the equilibrium ... framework: – As the interest rate increases: • The opportunity cost of holding money increases… • The relative expected return of money decreases… – ? ?and therefore the quantity demanded of money decreases ... All rights reserved Theory of Portfolio Choice Holding all other factors constant: The quantity demanded of an asset is positively related to wealth The quantity demanded of an asset is positively...

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