"This book analyzes corporate finance and alternative approaches for financial management and management accounting. It also explores financial globalization and its consequences: the political, legal, economic, and social ...

How foreign lending weakens emerging nationsIn the nineteenth century, many developing countries turned to the credit houses of Europe for sovereign loans to balance their books and weather major fiscal shocks such as war. ...

This study investigates the nonlinear relationship between public debt and sovereign credit ratings, using a wide sample of over one hundred advanced, emerging, and developing economies. It finds that: i) higher public ...