Routledge Focus on Economics and Finance
About the Book Series
The fields of economics and finance are constantly expanding and evolving. This growth presents a significant challenge to readers trying to keep up with the latest important insights. Routledge Focus on Economics and Finance presents short books on the latest big topics, leveraging cutting edge research from scholars globally.
Individually, each title in the series provides coverage of a key topic, whilst collectively, the series forms a comprehensive collection across the whole spectrum of economics and finance.
Green Fiscal Policy and Firm Behaviour: Towards Energy Efficiency
1st Edition
By Kinga B. Tchórzewska
June 05, 2026
This book is driven by the urgency of addressing the triple energy challenge— energy sustainability, security, and affordability. It explores a timely and policy-relevant research question, examining how effective green fiscal policies are in fostering the adoption of energy-efficient and ...
Interest Rates and Asset Values: A Case Study in Closed Markets
1st Edition
By Richard Thomas
June 05, 2026
In the complex world of corporate strategy and market dynamics, very few questions are as fundamental as understanding what drives the value of business assets. This book presents the first comprehensive empirical analysis of the causal relationship between interest rates and asset values in closed...
Resilient Global Supply Chains and Geopolitical Risk: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
By Aleksandra Kania
May 12, 2026
Global supply chains, long seen as engines of efficiency and economic integration, have been increasingly disrupted by recent crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflicts, and shifts in trade and industrial policy. These developments have raised costs, increased uncertainty, and reduced...
Dollar Dominance: Fundamentals, Nature, and Present Structure
1st Edition
By Junji Tokunaga
April 30, 2026
This book critically analyzes the US dollar’s dominance as an international currency through an analysis of US dollar gross balance sheets in the shadow banking system at global, systematically important banks. It begins by drawing upon Minsky and Kindleberger’s financial fragility hypothesis, ...
The Geoeconomics of Global Value Chains: Navigating Geopolitical Complexity and Industrial Policy Shifts
1st Edition
By Katarzyna Mroczek-Dąbrowska
April 29, 2026
The post-Cold War era was widely associated with the Washington Consensus, which promoted economic efficiency, specialization, and trade liberalization as pathways to growth and social welfare. Globalization facilitated the rise of geographically dispersed production networks, known as global value...
Proactivity in Economics: Between Resourcefulness and Entrepreneurship
1st Edition
By Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
March 09, 2026
Between plain resourcefulness and full-blooded entrepreneurship lies a middle ground of proactivity which, as this book argues, is a concept that allows economists to make better sense of activity where an individual takes greater agency over their personal outcomes through the existing employment ...
Geopolitics, China and the Global Supply Chain: Issues and Implications
1st Edition
By Sarah Chan
February 07, 2026
In an era of increasing geopolitical turmoil, this book looks at the impact of geopolitics on global supply chains and examines the role of China in East Asia’s regional economic integration. It evaluates the impact of geoeconomic fragmentation along different dimensions such as trade, FDI and ...
Financial Resilience and the Sustainable Development Goals
1st Edition
Edited
By Magdalena Zioło, Bruno S. Sergi
February 03, 2026
Financial resilience is a concept that is gaining importance in the context of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risk and can be considered from the perspective of any entity operating in the market economy, from households to local government units. This book presents the concept of ...
Crowdfunding European Business
1st Edition
By Antonella Francesca Cicchiello
December 26, 2025
This book questions the ability of crowdfunding (especially in the lending and equity-based models) to contribute to the development of European businesses, and therefore, to the relaunch of the European economy. Following a mainly micro (firm-based) approach, the study investigates the advantages ...
Financial Security and Household Life Insurance: Bridging the Gap
1st Edition
By Joanna Dębicka, Anna Jędrzychowska
December 15, 2025
This book offers a comprehensive understanding of a novel approach to household security following the loss of an adult member, introducing the concept of Bridging Household Life Insurance. It addresses the financial and functional instability that families face after the death of a spouse or ...
The Circular Economy and SMEs
1st Edition
Edited
By Fahimeh Khatami
December 03, 2025
Circularity is a practice that not only increases efficient industry performance but it focuses on resource management, waste reduction, innovation, stakeholder engagement, and operational excellence, also contribute to sustainable business and enhanced competitiveness. This book focuses on the ...
Customer Data Sharing Frameworks: Twelve Lessons for the World
1st Edition
By Anton Didenko, Natalia Jevglevskaja, Ross P. Buckley
November 28, 2025
The proliferation of open banking and open finance regimes across the globe demonstrates an ever-increasing interest of policymakers in empowering customers to take control of their data through innovative data sharing frameworks. These frameworks mostly operate within a single (e.g., financial ...