World Leasing Yearbook 2001

Purchasing is not the only option when a company needs new equipment and in 1999, the equipment leasing market world‐wide was valued at US$473.5 billion. Leased items today can range from aircraft and industrial machinery to photocopiers and computers. This 22nd edition of the World Leasing Yearbook provides a ready reference source for all players in the leasing market.

The first section provides a series of short, signed essays on current trends. These consider US outbound cross‐border leasing; asset securitisation, Leaseurope statistics, the International Accounting Standard accounting for leases; and background to the Unidroit Convention. This section begins with a...