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.
Crowdfunding European Business
1st Edition
By Antonella Francesca Cicchiello
March 14, 2024
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 ...
The Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Performance: Finance, Governance and Risk
1st Edition
By Elżbieta Bukalska, Anna Wawryszuk-Misztal, Tomasz Sosnowski
February 23, 2024
Financial management encompasses a set of complex activities that should be performed by a professional financial manager. Some financial decisions are riskier than others, and as such can result in higher or lower profitability. This risk-return trade-off is the key aspect of financial management....
Customer Data Sharing Frameworks: Twelve Lessons for the World
1st Edition
By Anton Didenko, Natalia Jevglevskaja, Ross P. Buckley
February 15, 2024
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 ...
Economic Innovations: Creating New Instruments to Improve Economic Life
1st Edition
By Beth Webster, Bill Scales
January 29, 2024
This book is a series of vignettes about changes to Australian institutions, organisations and systems that have significantly improved economic and social well-being for Australians. Economic system innovations have had a profound impact on our lives, from the invention of banking in the middle ...
Public Policy and the Impact of COVID-19 in Europe: Economic, Political and Social Dimensions
1st Edition
By Magdalena Tomala, Maryana Prokop, Aleksandra Kordonska
January 29, 2024
This book analyses Europe’s COVID-19 response provided by governments and societies, to assess its influence on the economy from both a short- and long-term perspective. The authors argue that there are three key factors that determine how successful a given country is. The first is the ...
Well-being and Growth in Advanced Economies: The Need to Prioritise Human Development
1st Edition
By Maurizio Pugno
January 29, 2024
Economic growth is generally regarded by governments and most ordinary people as a panacea for all problems, including issues caused by the COVID pandemic. But this raises an important question: is further growth in advanced economies able to increase well-being once people’s basic subsistence ...
Markets vs Public Health Systems: Perspectives from the Austrian School of Economics
1st Edition
By Łukasz Jasiński
September 25, 2023
Problems related to the functioning of public healthcare systems encourage the search for alternative solutions, for example to ensure improved access to medical services. However, these proposals also require appropriate theoretical support to better present and apply them. This book draws on ...
Economics, Education and Youth Entrepreneurship: International Perspectives
1st Edition
By Marian Noga, Andrzej Brzeziński
January 09, 2023
The aim of this book is to justify the importance of economic knowledge for every human being in a country with an economic system based on the market mechanism, and to explain and debunk the myths and stereotypes related to economic education and its effectiveness, particularly among young people....
The Economics of Intellectual Property and Openness: The Tragedy of Intangible Abundance
1st Edition
By Bartłomiej Biga
January 09, 2023
This book focuses on the economic aspects of intellectual property (IP). It includes considerations of the wider category of intangible assets. However, the primary focus is devoted to patents which the author argues are the most vivid example of the Tragedy of Intangible Abundance (TIA). TIA ...
Foreign Exchange Rates: A Research Overview of the Latest Prediction Techniques
1st Edition
By Arif Orçun Söylemez
August 29, 2022
Predicting foreign exchange rates has presented a long-standing challenge for economists. However, the recent advances in computational techniques, statistical methods, newer datasets on emerging market currencies, etc., offer some hope. While we are still unable to beat a driftless random walk ...
Islamic Economics and COVID-19: The Economic, Social and Scientific Consequences of a Global Pandemic
1st Edition
By Masudul Alam Choudhury
August 29, 2022
This book is a timely exploration of an unprecedented, cataclysmic pandemic episode. It examines certain critical aspects of socio-scientific theory across a variety of diverse themes, and through an epistemic lens. The book investigates the general theory of pandemic episodes and their adverse ...
The Political Economy of Financial Development in Malaysia: From the Asian Crisis to 1MDB
1st Edition
By Lena Rethel
June 30, 2022
Current inquiries into the political economy of financial policymaking in Malaysia tend to focus on the high-level drama of crisis politics or simply point to the limited impact of post-crisis financial reforms, given that politico-business relations have remained close. In so doing, pundits ignore...