Authors:Triple H, Robert Caprio, James Rosenthal,
Publisher: World Wrestling Entertainment
Keywords: triple, wwe, approach, game, making
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-08
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0743478886
ISBN-13: 9780743478885

Triple H is The Game. Arguably he is in better shape than any other WWE superstar, and last year he proved it when his incredible physical condition enabled him to come back from injuries that would have finished a lesser wrestler. In a Tag Team Championship bout that paired him with Stone Cold Steve Austin against Chris Benoit and Chris Jericho in May 2001, he tore his left quadriceps muscle completely off the bone. After six months of hellacious rehab, he returned to a hero’s welcome in January 2002. In MAKING THE GAME he takes the reader step by step through his personal training tech

Author: Gerard Caprio; James A. Hanson; Robert E. Litan
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: imf, bank, brookings, emerging, markets, world, future, crises, lessons, past, preparation, financial
Number of Pages: 291
Published: 2005-11-15
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0815712898
ISBN-13: 9780815712893

Numerous crises rocked the world financial sector in the 1990s: the Asian bubble burst; Argentina and Brazil suffered currency crises; and the post-Soviet economy bottomed out in Russia. Here a distinguished group of economists and policy analysts draw lessons from attempts to recover from these and other financial crises of recent history. Potential hazards facing the world economy in the twenty-first century are also discussed along with approaches that could help to prevent them.

Authors:Vittorio Caprio, Jonathan Williams,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: chemistry, series, postgraduate, synthesis, asymmetric, catalysis
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2009-03-09
List price: $69.99
ISBN-10: 1405175192
ISBN-13: 9781405175197

Asymmetric synthesis has become a major aspect of modern organic chemistry. The stereochemical properties of an organic compound are often essential to its bioactivity, and the need for stereochemically pure pharmaceutical products is a key example of the importance of stereochemical control in organic synthesis. However, achieving high levels of stereoselectivity in the synthesis of complex natural products represents a considerable intellectual and practical challenge for chemists. Written from a synthetic organic chemistry perspective, this text provides a practical overview of the f

Authors:Gerard Caprio, Dimitri Vittas, Patrick Honohan,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: reader, economics, countries, developing, sector, policy, financial
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2002-10-24
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0821351761
ISBN-13: 9780821351765

This book collects ten complementary essays on different aspects of financial sector policy for developing and transitional economies. The essays, by leading theoreticians and practitioners, draw on the history and experience of financial sector policy reforms to derive lessons for the future. The collection is carefully chosen to cover the major contemporary issues, including both crisis avoidance and institution-building. The increasing importance of non-bank finance and of international linkages (including dollarization) for small economies are given special attention.

Authors:James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio Jr, Ross Levine,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: govern, angels, regulation, bank, rethinking
Number of Pages: 444
Published: 2005-12-26
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0521855764
ISBN-13: 9780521855761

This volume assembles and presents a new database on bank regulation in over 150 countries (included also on CD). It offers the first comprehensive cross-country assessment of the impact of bank regulation on the operation of banks, and assesses the validity of the Basel Committee’s influential approach to bank regulation. The treatment also provides an empirical evaluation of the historic debate about the proper role of government in the economy by studying bank regulation and analyzes the role of politics in determining regulatory approaches to banking. The data also indicate that rest

Authors:James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio Jr, Ross Levine,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: govern, angels, regulation, bank, rethinking
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2008-05-12
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 052170930X
ISBN-13: 9780521709309

This volume assembles and presents a new database on bank regulation in over 150 countries. It offers the first comprehensive cross-country assessment of the impact of bank regulation on the operation of banks, and assesses the validity of the Basel Committee’s influential approach to bank regulation. The treatment also provides an empirical evaluation of the historic debate about the proper role of government in the economy by studying bank regulation and analyzes the role of politics in determining regulatory approaches to banking. The data also indicate that restrictions on the entry

Authors:Joseph E. Stiglitz, Gerard Caprio, Patrick Honohan,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: fast, liberalization, financial
Number of Pages: 318
Published: 2001-10-08
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0521803691
ISBN-13: 9780521803694

This volume addresses one of the most topical and controversial issues in banking and financial policy. It explains why governments have felt the need to liberalize banking and finance, for example, by privatizing banks and allowing interest rates to be set by the market. It describes how the consequences have not always been smooth, and considers how financial liberalizations could be approached better in the future. In addition to a clear and concise presentation of current theories and global experience, there are six carefully chosen country case studies.