Banking, Money and International Finance
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, ...
Management of Foreign Exchange Risk: Evidence from Developing Economies
1st Edition
By Y. C. Lum, Sardar Islam
April 29, 2022
This book provides a technical and specialised discussion of contemporary and emerging issues in foreign exchange and financial markets by addressing the issues of risk management and theory and hypothesis development, which have general implications for finance theory and foreign exchange market ...
Banking in China (1890s–1940s): Business in the French Concessions
1st Edition
By Hubert Bonin
December 13, 2021
From the 1890s to the 1940s, French State and entrepreneurial companies were enticed to promote French interests, beyond mere colonial targets, for the sake of economic patriotism. Chinese concessions, not including Hong Kong, were thus inserted into geo-economic moves, and French stakeholders ...
Financial Integration in the European Monetary Union
1st Edition
By Sławomir Ireneusz Bukowski
June 30, 2021
This book introduces readers to the world of international financial markets and their integration on a global and regional scale. The author presents the theoretical and practical issues concerning the processes of financial market integration, with a particular focus on the monetary union. The ...
The Regulation of Financial Planning in Australia: Current Practice, Issues and Empirical Analysis
1st Edition
By Angelique Nadia Sweetman McInnes
June 30, 2021
This book investigates the legitimacy of the current Australian Financial Services Licensee-Authorised Representative (AFSL-AR) licensing model, as specified in the Commonwealth Corporations Act 2001.The book rectifies the deficiency in scholarly attention to this matter by developing a new ...
The Economics of Financial Cooperatives: Income Distribution, Political Economy and Regulation
1st Edition
By Amr Khafagy
April 01, 2021
Building on theories of finance and distribution, and the political economy of finance, this book explains the influence of financial cooperatives on wealth and income distribution, and institutional factors that determine the development of financial cooperatives. The book discusses the dynamics ...
Financial Risk Management in Banking: Evidence from Asia Pacific
1st Edition
By Shahsuzan Zakaria, Sardar Islam
March 31, 2021
As risk-taking is an essential part of the banking industry, banks must practise efficient risk management to ensure survival in uncertain financial climates. Banking operations are specifically affected by fluctuations in interest rates which cause financial imbalance; thus banks are now required ...