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unusual facts about International finance



Jane D'Arista

She served for 20 years as a staff economist for the U.S. Congress, and then, from 1988 to 1999, she taught international finance at Boston University School of Law.

Plaza Accord

The U.S. Federal Reserve System under Paul Volcker had halted the stagflation crisis of the 1970s by raising interest rates, but this resulted in the dollar becoming overvalued to the extent that it made industry in the U.S. (particularly the automobile industry) less competitive in the global market.

Robert Z. Aliber

Robert Z. Aliber is a Professor Emeritus of International Economics and Finance at the University of Chicago.


see also

Home bias puzzle

Home bias in trade puzzle, the a widely-discussed problem in macroeconomics and international finance related to over consumption of domestically produced goods relative to imports.

Hypo Alpe Adria in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank a.d. Banja Luka and Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank d.d. Mostar (HAA) are member banks of Hypo Alpe Adria, one of the leading international financial groups on the territory of Alps-Adriatic region, of which parent bank was founded in 1896 in Klagenfurt, Austria.

International Finance Centre

The IFC's towers have featured in several Hollywood films, including Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, where Lara Croft leaps off the then-under-construction 2 International Finance Centre, landing on a ship out in the Kowloon Bay, and The Dark Knight, where Batman leapt from 2 IFC to 1 IFC, where an action scene then takes place.

Iqbal Quadir

Quadir's vision of a large-scale commercial project led him to organize a global consortium involving Telenor, Norway’s leading telecommunications company; an affiliate of micro-credit pioneer Grameen Bank in Bangladesh (winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize); Marubeni Corp. in Japan; Asian Development Bank in the Philippines; Commonwealth Development Corp. in the United Kingdom; and International Finance Corp. and Gonofone in the United States.

Liberal Party of Canada candidates, 2004 Canadian federal election

He was hired by the prestigious Linklaters firm of New York in 1996, and practiced international finance and corporate law.

Mark Taylor

Mark P. Taylor, professor in economics and international finance and dean of Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick

Metzler Visiting Professorship

The Metzler Visiting Professorship in International Finance, founded by the German private bank Bankhaus Metzler in 1992, is an academic exchange program between the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, and the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.

Oscar Moreno

He started as a trial attorney at the Philippine National Railways and later became the corporate legal counsel of major financial institutions in the country such as the Far East Bank and Trust Company, Ayala Investment and Development Corporation, Ayala International Finance Ltd. (Hong Kong), Bank of the Philippines Islands, Citibank, Ayala Life Assurance, Inc. and FGU Insurance Corporation.

Rault

Didier Rault, (b. 1968), Founder and Chairman of International Finance Capital

Roger C. Poole

Dr. Poole also did a post-doctoral study in international finance at the London School of Economics.

Summer Palace Dialogue

Merit E. Janow: Professor of International Trade/WTO Law, Director of International Finance and Economic Policy Program, and Co-Director of the APEC Study Center, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Former Member, Appellate Body from North America, World Trade Organization (WTO).

Thomas Palley

His work has covered macroeconomic theory and policy, international finance and trade, economic development, and labor markets where his approach is Post Keynesian.