Financial crimes and financial misdemeanours

Financial Depth – Financial Repression Linkage

Financial Structure and Financial Crisis

For many years the economies of South East Asia were regarded as models for economic development. The four tigers, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, grew from low levels of income per head to among the highest in the world in a few decades. The newly industrializing economies of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand had also started to grow at an extremely rapid rate. The Philippines had...

The Comparison of Personality Traits and Cognitive Distortions of Prisoners Convicted of Robbery, Drugs, and Financial Crimes

Introduction: This study was to investigate and compare the personality traits and cognitive distortions of people convicted of robbery, drugs, and financial crimes. Methods: A descriptive causal comparison was performed among all prisoners of financial crimes, robbery, and drugs in Shirvan prison; in which two hundred forty male prisoners were selected voluntarily. Neo-five-factor questionnair...

Financial globalization, financial crises and contagion

Two observations suggest that financial globalization played an important role in the recent financial crisis. First, more than half of the rise in net borrowing of the U.S. nonfinancial sectors since the mid 1980s has been financed by foreign lending. Second, the collapse of the U.S. housing and mortgage-backed-securities markets had worldwide effects on financial institutions and asset market...

Financial exploitation, financial capacity, and Alzheimer's disease.

Research in the past decade has documented that financial exploitation of older adults has become a major problem, and psychology is only recently increasing its presence in efforts to reduce exploitation. During the same time period, psychology has been a leader in setting best practices for the assessment of diminished capacity in older adults culminating in the 2008 American Bar Association ...