Banking, Money and International Finance
Insurance Market Integration in the European Union
1st Edition
By Sławomir Ireneusz Bukowski, Marzanna Barbara Lament
May 27, 2024
Insurance Market Integration in the European Union offers an in-depth analysis of the mechanisms of insurance market integration and measures the degrees of this integration. It examines the operation of the EU single financial market and, against this backdrop, the regulation relating to the ...
The Role of Crises in Shaping Financial Systems: From the Global Financial Crisis to COVID-19
1st Edition
By Małgorzata Iwanicz-Drozdowska, Elżbieta Malinowska-Misiąg, Piotr Mielus, Paweł Smaga, Bartosz Witkowski
May 27, 2024
The Role of Crises in Shaping Financial Systems: From the Global Financial Crisis to COVID-19 underscores the role of crises as turning points for the financial sector and its interactions with the real economy. It sheds new light on the financial industry through the lens of three recent ...
Banking, Lending and Real Estate
1st Edition
By Claudio Scardovi, Alessia Bezzecchi
May 31, 2023
This book deals directly with the risk/return multiple trade-offs coming out of the closely intertwined relationship between banking and real estate. The authors explore how banks could embrace a more proactive approach to make the most of their, mostly ‘long only’, exposure to real estate, and ...
Global Stock Market Development: Quantitative and Behavioural Analysis
1st Edition
By Marcin Kalinowski
May 31, 2023
In the current era of globalised financial markets, the stock market cannot be assessed solely by comparing quantitative features such as the number of listed companies or capitalisation on the stock exchange. This is of secondary importance from an investor's point of view. What is important, ...
The Digital Disruption of Financial Services: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Ewa Lechman, Adam Marszk
May 31, 2023
This book contributes to the present state of knowledge, offering the reader broad evidence on how new digital technologies impact financial systems. It focuses on both macro- and micro-perspectives of ICT influence on financial markets. The book demonstrates how ICT can impact trading systems or ...
The Digitalization of Financial Markets: The Socioeconomic Impact of Financial Technologies
1st Edition
Edited
By Adam Marszk, Ewa Lechman
May 31, 2023
The book provides deep insight into theoretical and empirical evidence on information and communication technologies (ICT) as an important factor affecting financial markets. It is focused on the impact of ICT on stock markets, bond markets, and other categories of financial markets, with the ...
The Economics and Finance of Commodity Price Shocks
1st Edition
By Mikidadu Mohammed
May 31, 2023
The behaviour of commodity prices never ceases to marvel economists, financial analysts, industry experts, and policymakers. Unexpected swings in commodity prices used to occur infrequently but have now become a permanent feature of global commodity markets. This book is about modelling commodity ...
Inflation Targeting and Central Banks: Institutional Set-ups and Monetary Policy Effectiveness
1st Edition
By Joanna Niedźwiedzińska
January 09, 2023
Over the last three decades, inflation targeting (IT) has become the most popular monetary policy framework among larger economies. At the same time, its constituting features leave room for different interpretations, translating into various central banks’ institutional set-ups. Against this ...
Carbon Risk and Green Finance
1st Edition
By Aaron Ezroj
August 01, 2022
As the world plans for economic recovery following the global COVID-19 pandemic, major economies are looking to comprehensive strategies for addressing carbon risks and identifying green finance opportunities. Since Bank of England Governor Mark Carney and Michael Bloomberg began tackling climate ...
Banking and Effective Capital Regulation in Practice: A Leadership Perspective
1st Edition
By Sophia Velez
May 30, 2022
Due to a historical lack of attention to the importance of modelling, measuring and managing risk, senior bank leaders are struggling to implement unified practices within their financial institutions that could address the gaps posed by risky management behaviour, rogue trading, liquidity crises, ...
Democracy and Money: Lessons for Today from Athens in Classical Times
1st Edition
By George C. Bitros, Emmanouil M. L. Economou, Nicholas C. Kyriazis
May 06, 2022
The authors of this book argue that post-war fiscal and monetary policies in the U.S. are prone to more frequent and more destabilizing domestic and international financial crises. So, in the aftermath of the one that erupted in 2008, they propose that now we are sleepwalking into another, which ...
Innovation in Financial Services: Balancing Public and Private Interests
1st Edition
Edited
By Lech Gąsiorkiewicz, Jan Monkiewicz
April 29, 2022
This book delves into the many innovative changes that the financial industry has undergone in recent years. The authors investigate these developments in a holistic manner and from a wide range of perspectives: both public and private, business and consumer, regulators and supervisors. Initially, ...