Emerging markets in an upside down world : challenging perceptions in asset allocation and investment

Booth, Jerome P. (Jerome Paul) (author.).

Summary: The world is upside down. The emerging market countries are more important than many investors realise. They have been catching up with the West over the past few decades. Greater market freedom has spread since the end of the Cold War, and with it institutional changes which have further assisted emerging economies in becoming more productive, flexible, and resilient. The Western financial crisis from 2008 has quickened the pace of the relative rise of emerging markets - their relative economic power, and with it political power, but also their financial power as savers, investors and.

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ISBN: 9781118879658
ISBN: 1118879651
ISBN: 9781118879641
ISBN: 1118879643
ISBN: 9781118879672
Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations, map.
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Publisher: Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	5.9.1 When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail6 Core/Periphery Disease; 6.1 The core/periphery paradigm; 6.1.1 Core breach?; 6.1.2 Another core/periphery concept: decoupling; 6.1.3 And another: spreads; 6.2 Beyond core/periphery; 6.2.1 Towards a relative theory of risk; 6.2.2 GDP weighting; 7 The Structure of Investment; 7.1 Misaligned incentives; 7.2 Confused incentives; 7.3 Evolutionary dynamics, institutional forms; 7.3.1 History matters; 7.4 Network theory; 7.5 Game theory; 7.6 Investor structure and liquidity; 7.7 Market segmentation; 7.7.1 Warning signals
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.