...Ed Brown; Jonathan Cloke; John Christensen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the activities of tax havens in the global financial markets and explore their role in providing a supply‐side stimulant for corrupt practices. It aims to argue that the corruption debate needs to shift...

.... Design/methodology/approach The paper provides an analytical overview of three of the implications of the current crisis, and introduces the idea of the “activist state” in financial markets. Findings The article focuses on three issues raised in connection with the recent crisis: the rapid rise...

... to be driven somewhat more by subjective, even transcendental (of observable gross domestic product – GDP – or “real” processes) psychological and social constructs than is commonly understood. Since the 1980s, structural changes in evolving financial markets, especially advances in information‐processing...

...George Cairns; Joanne Roberts; David Weitzner; James Darroch Purpose This paper aims to explore the linkages between greed and governance failures in both financial institutions and financial markets. Design/methodology/approach The paper described how innovation changed the US financial...

... crises. There are two major reasons that explain this resilience: 1. the flexible exchange rate regime; and 2. the adoption and, perhaps more importantly, the maintenance and improvement of the same set of economic policies for over a decade. International finance Financial markets...

... feature of the paper is an argument that recent developments in international business have been led by financial market inflation, rather than by the autonomous managerial strategies of international businesses. Recession Financial markets Multinational companies Inflating asset markets...

... markets Recession Financial markets Virtually every aspect of conventional economic theory is intellectually unsound; virtually every economic policy recommendation is just as likely to do harm as it is to lead to the general good. Far from holding the intellectual high ground, economics rests...

... election are driving significant differences in approach. Under these circumstances what can the lens of the KAM paradigm tell us about the actions taken or proposed and what is or is not likely to work? © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Economic booms Recession Financial markets...

.... Originality/value It is hoped that analysis such as this will lead to improvement of regulations of financial markets, reducing chances of future crises of such proportions. This is indeed what began to happen more frequently in 2006. Figure 3 compares the subprime mortgages that were in delinquencies...