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The watchdog that didn't bark : the financial crisis and the disappearance of investigative reporting
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ISBN: 9780231158183 Year: 2014 Publisher: Chichester (W.S.) Columbia University Press

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In this sweeping, incisive post mortem, Dean Starkman exposes the critical shortcomings that softened coverage in the business press during the mortgage era and the years leading up to the financial collapse of 2008. He locates the roots of the problem in the origin of business news as a market messaging service for investors in the early twentieth century. This access-dependent strain of journalism was soon opposed by the grand, sweeping work of the muckrakers. Propelled by the innovations of Bernard Kilgore, the great postwar editor of the Wall Street Journal, these two genres merged when mainstream American news organizations institutionalized muckraking in the 1960s, creating a powerful guardian of the public interest. Yet as the mortgage era dawned, deep cultural and structural shifts -- some unavoidable, some self-inflicted -- eroded journalism's appetite for its role as watchdog. The result was a deafening silence about systemic corruption in the financial industry. Tragically, this silence grew only more profound as the mortgage madness reached its terrible apogee from 2004 through 2006. Starkman frames his analysis in a broad argument about journalism itself, dividing the profession into two competing approaches -- access reporting and accountability reporting -- which rely on entirely different sources and produce radically different representations of reality. As Starkman explains, access journalism came to dominate business reporting in the 1990s, a process he calls CNBCization, and rather than examining risky, even corrupt, corporate behavior, mainstream reporters focused on profiling executives and informing investors. Starkman concludes with a critique of the digital-news ideology and corporate influence, which threaten to further undermine investigative reporting, and he shows how financial coverage, and journalism as a whole, can reclaim its bite. Bron : http://www.bol.com


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Dynamic General Equilibrium Modeling
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ISBN: 9783540856849 9783540856856 3540856846 Year: 2009 Publisher: Berlin Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Modern business cycle theory and growth theory uses stochastic dynamic general equilibrium models. In order to solve these models, economists need to use many mathematical tools. This book presents various methods in order to compute the dynamics of general equilibrium models. In part I, the representative-agent stochastic growth model is solved with the help of value function iteration, linear and linear quadratic approximation methods, parameterised expectations and projection methods. In order to apply these methods, fundamentals from numerical analysis are reviewed in detail. In part II, the authors discuss methods in order to solve heterogeneous-agent economies. This part of the book also serves as an introduction to the modern theory of distribution economics. Applications include the dynamics of the income distribution over the business cycle or the demographic transition in a large-scale overlapping generations model. In an accompanying home page to this book, computer codes to all applications can be downloaded. "This is perhaps the perfect book to learn how to solve quantitative macroeconomics models. Its balance between theory, choice of models, computational insights and use of examples make it an excellent teaching tool. One of the very few books a professional macroeconomist should have: I always learn something important when I consult it." José-Víctor Ríos Rull, University of Minnesota "This book not only does an excellent job in explaining the existing tools, but it also teaches the reader on how to write her/his own programs and it provides the reader with the tools to help advance the state of the art of dynamic macroeconomics. " Wouter J. Den Haan, University of Amsterdam "This is an excellent book for economists who do quantitative research. It will be an invaluable teaching tool for graduate macroeconomic courses." Ayse Imrohoroglu, University of Southern California " ¦ provides the reader with exactly the necessary computational tools to solve the dynamic general equilibrium models macroeconomists care about. It is therefore the perfect complement to Stokey, Lucas and Prescott's and Sargent and Ljungqvist's theoretical treatment of modern macroeconomics." Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania


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Communiceren in tijden van crisis
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ISBN: 9789401418584 9401418586 Year: 2014 Publisher: Leuven LannooCampus

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Geen enkele crisissituatie is gelijk, maar vaak zijn er overeenkomsten. De onvoorspelbaarheid, snel opeenvolgende gebeurtenissen, de grote verwarring en een toenemende druk om te communiceren spelen immers altijd hun rol. Aan de hand van eigen ervaring én praktijkvoorbeelden toont de auteur hoe organisaties zich het meest doeltreffend kunnen voorbereiden op, en omgaan met, een crisis. Van het maken van een degelijk crisiscommunicatieplan tot het omgaan met klassieke en nieuwe media: stap voor stap leidt het boek je door het hele proces.Vanuit talrijke praktijkvoorbeelden gaat de auteur in op de voorwaarden van succesvolle crisiscommunicatie, de banden tussen elk geslaagd communicatiebeleid en de media, en de groeiende rol die sociale media in het communicatiespectrum innemen.www.lannoo.be


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The ethics of banking : conclusions from the financial crisis.
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ISBN: 9789400706552 9789400706569 9789400735927 Year: 2011 Publisher: Dordrecht Springer

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This book analyzes the systemic and the ethical mistakes that have led to the financial crisis of 2008. It explores the middle ground between the argument that financial managers cannot be expected to take responsibility for a systemic crisis and the argument that moral failure is the one and only origin of the crisis. The book investigates the role of speculation in the formation of the crisis. It distinguishes between productive speculation for hedging and for securing market liquidity on the one hand, and unproductive and even detrimental hyper-speculation, on the other. The book argues that hyper-speculation goes far beyond the degree of speculation that is necessary for the liquidity of financial markets in a developed economy, and has thus increased the risks of the financial system and will continue to do so. This book offers an ethics of banking and an ethical economy of the financial markets to counterbalance the financial industry's purely economic approach.


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Dit kan niet waar zijn : onder bankiers
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ISBN: 9789045028163 9045028166 Year: 2015 Publisher: Amsterdam Atlas Contact

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Twee jaar lang heeft Joris Luyendijk zich ondergedompeld in het hart van de financiële wereld. Juist omdat hij geen kenner was van de bankenwereld, was hij de ideale auteur om te onderzoeken wat er gebeurd is: hoe gesloten de wereld van de high finance ook is, velen wilde met hem praten om uit te leggen hoe mooi hun werk was. Hoe zwaar. Hoe interessant.En hoe gevaarlijk.Want de conclusie is even stevig als pijnlijk: de instellingen die ervoor moeten zorgen dat de economie functioneert, kunnen de wereld in de afgrond storten. En dat gebeurt allemaal met de beste bedoelingen door mensen die precies dezelfde zorgen hebben als u en ik, door mensen die de hypotheek moeten betalen en de kinderen op een goeie school wilden hebben.De scherpe blik en de onbevangen manier van vragenstellen zorgt ervoor dat Luyendijk als geen ander inzichtelijk maakt hoe we ervoor staan. And it is not pretty.Bron : http://www.bol.com


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Nouvelles normes financières
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ISBN: 9782817800707 9782817800691 2817800699 2817800702 Year: 2010 Publisher: Paris Springer Paris

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En réaction à la crise de 2008, une forte contestation des normes financières dites « modernes » est apparue chez toutes les parties prenantes du système économique conduisant à un diagnostic pessimiste sur la pertinence et la qualité du dispositif de normes installé dans le milieu des années 1990. Répondant à ce constat, ce livre propose une refondation des normes de la finance à partir d'un diagnostic nouveau porté sur la crise : une pensée défaillante de l'incertitude financière, schématisée dans le recours systématique à la représentation brownienne des aléas. La proposition centrale de l'

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Social banking and social finance : answers to the economic crisis.
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ISBN: 9781441977731 9781441977748 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berlin Springer

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For over 2,000 years, banks have served to facilitate the exchange of money and to provide a variety of economic and financial services. During the most recent financial collapse and subsequent recession, beginning in 2008, banks have been vilified as perpetrators of the crisis, the public distrust compounded by massive public bailouts. Nevertheless, another form of banking has also emerged, with a focus on promoting economic sustainability, investing in community, providing opportunity for the disadvantaged, and supporting social, environmental, and ethical agendas. Social Banking and Social Finance traces the emergence of the bank with a conscience  and proposes a new approach to banking in the wake of the economic crisis. Featuring innovations and initiatives in banking from Europe, Canada, and the United States, Roland Benedikter presents an alternative to traditional banking practices that are focused exclusively on profit maximization. He argues that social banking is not about changing the system, but about improving some of its core features by putting into use the "triple bottom line" principle of profit-people-planet. Important lessons can be learned by the success of social banks that may be useful for the greater task of improving the global financial system and avoiding economic crises in the future.

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