PREFACE Foreign exchange is attracting more attention than any other branch of finance. The interest evinced is universal and is no longer confined to bankers, international traders, and financial writers, as was the case prior to the Great War. The general public is showing a decided disposition to acquaint itself with the dislocation of...
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PREFACE The practice of most writers on Foreign Exchange is to treat their subject as a phase of the banking problem, emphasizing the bankers’ methods of handling foreign bills of exchange, and giving but minor stress to the relations of the business man with the exchange markets. It is the opinion of the present writer...
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The Market and its Meaning Ours is a, weary and disillusioned generation, dealing with a world which is nearer collapse than it has been at any time since the downfall of the Roman Empire. The problem which is discussed in this little book is an integral part of the general problem of reconstruction after the...
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PREFACE The object of this work is to present in a concise and simple form the theory and practice of Foreign Exchange. At first sight some apology may appear to be due for adding to the already long list of books on this branch of monetary science, but reference to the table of contents...
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Abstract There is a considerable literature analyzing the behavior of exchange rates. However, the modeling and forecasting of exchange rates has not been very successful. One of the obstacles to effective modeling of financial time series is heteroscedasticity. The recent availability of high frequency data, such as tick-by-tick data, provides us with extra information about...
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WHAT FOREIGN EXCHANGE IS AND WHAT BRINGS IT INTO EXISTENCE UNDERLYING the whole business of foreign exchange is the way in which obligations between creditors in one country and debtors in another have come to be settled — by having the creditor draw a draft directly upon the debtor or upon some bank designated...
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PREFACE There is nothing mysterious or difficult about foreign exchange when it is studied in the light of domestic exchange, which is easily understood, and in this volume I have endeavored to explain the essential principles of both domestic and foreign exchange in simple language, and with suitable illustrations. In this volume practically every...
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The new volume deals more especially with two topics, the distribution of corporate securities and the financial side of corporate reorganizations. It also presents some discussion of the disposition made of corporate income. Though both law and accounting must be referred to in explaining financial matters, I hold an opinion that corporation finance has...
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BULLION and Foreign Exchanges are subjects generally comprised among the contents of higher class books on Practical Arithmetic; though, of course, the consideration given in works of the kind to these interesting topics is necessarily only limited and superficial, at the best. There are several publications on Banking and Commercial Business which go somewhat...
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PREFACE I earnestly invite the most serious attention, with unbiased mind, of every one especially rulers, statesmen, legislators, and economists — to this analysis of the world’s prices and foreign and colonial exchanges of intermediaries; and to the simple arithmetical demonstration to travellers, traders, and financiers of their effects upon the interchanges of things between man...
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The recurrence at the present time of one of those visitations of commercial and financial distress of which I have, during a long life, experienced so many, has once more forced upon the consideration of Parliament and the public the interminable subject of banking and circulation. Whatever may be the variance of opinions on...
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INTRODUCTION In approaching the problem of the causes of the crisis of 1893, it is necessary to adopt a somewhat unusual mode of procedure, owing to the fact that in November, 1890, three years previous to the crisis of 1893, a severe financial panic was felt in Great Britain, Germany, and the United States. Such...
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THE PROBLEM For many years the country has suffered from recurring periods of severe financial stringency. During these periods interest rates have been excessively high, and business men have lost heavily through inability to obtain necessary loans and discounts from the banks. At times wide-spread panic and general suspension of payments by the banks...
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PREFATORY REMARKS In the present work the compiler has aimed to furnish a full and reliable history of the several stocks in the Boston market offered to Investors, — a large class, comprising not only capitalists so termed, but a host of persons of smaller means, who seek out some one of the various securities...
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INTRODUCTION THE following work is an attempt to explain, in as clear and simple language as possible, the elementary principles of Currency and Banking, their progressive development in practice, and the laws at present affecting them. Many of the works already existing on these subjects are excellent in several respects, and contain much valuable information; but...
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