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.
The Digital Transformation of Banking
1st Edition
By Bilal Sucubaşı, Andrijana Bojadzievska Danevska, Savica Dimitrieska, Elena Parnardzieva Stanoevska
August 31, 2025
The banking sector is evolving rapidly due to technological advancements, regulatory changes, and shifting customer expectations. This book addresses these changes by comprehensively analysing key areas where technology intersects with banking. It provides a detailed and insightful examination of ...
International Trade, Regulation and the Global Economy: The Impact of Anti-Competitive Market Distortions
1st Edition
By Shanker Singham
August 18, 2025
The barriers between the voluntary exchange of willing buyers and willing sellers have progressively been reduced through trade liberalisation, competition and better property rights protection. However, the world has done significantly less well in reducing barriers involving competition and ...
The Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Performance: Finance, Governance and Risk
1st Edition
By Elżbieta Bukalska, Anna Wawryszuk-Misztal, Tomasz Sosnowski
July 30, 2025
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....
Monetary Policy and Inflation: Quantity Theory of Money
1st Edition
By Mateusz Machaj
June 27, 2025
Recent years have seen a return to high inflation that has sparked debate about the causal role of monetary policy in significant price increases, especially in the context of the quantity theory of money. This book builds upon a long-accepted tradition of quantity theory of money in explaining ...
Efficient Mutual Fund Markets: A Global Perspective
1st Edition
By Stanisław Urbański, Bartosz Rymkiewicz, Jacek Leśkow, Bartosz Stawiarski
June 06, 2025
This book covers a new and innovative approach to the issue of investment portfolio efficiency from the perspective of a large institutional investor. It discusses the challenges relating to changes in returns on the international stock market, with particular emphasis on investments. Instead of ...
Financing for Development: Towards a New, Green Bretton Woods
1st Edition
By Stefan Brunnhuber
May 16, 2025
This book provides a robust argument for an upgrade of the financial system to enable a more sustainable approach. It explores the upcoming debate on a newly modified international financial architecture, facing serial ecological crisis and the advent of new technologies, and which operates in a ...
Health Insurance in the United States of America: Austrian Perspectives on Interventionism before ObamaCare
1st Edition
By Łukasz Jasiński
April 01, 2025
The U.S. health care system is dominated by private and public (governmental) insurance which makes it difficult for many Americans to imagine access to health care without it. The health care system in the USA is sometimes mistakenly referred to as market-based, partly because of the previous...
Capital Structure and Firm Performance: Global Financing Decisions among Listed Companies
1st Edition
By Ewelina Sokołowska, Milad Zargartalebi
December 11, 2024
In the complex world of finance, understanding the relationship between a company's capital structure and its overall performance is crucial. This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the interdependence between capital structure decisions and business performance, with a specific focus on ...
Regional Economic Integration in East Asia: Institutions, Agreements and the European Experience
1st Edition
By Magdalena Suska
November 08, 2024
This interdisciplinary book analyses the regional economic integration and its institutionalisation that has been pursued in East Asia since the late 1990s and its far-reaching impact for the entire region and beyond. It presents the specificity and evolution of East Asia’s economic integration as ...
The Economics of ObamaCare
1st Edition
By Łukasz Jasiński
October 09, 2024
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly referred to as ObamaCare or PPACA), which was signed into US law in 2010, generated a lot of noise from both supporters and detractors. This book argues that the changes introduced by ObamaCare were, in the long history of government ...
Reading John Maynard Keynes: A Short Introduction
1st Edition
By Andrés Solimano
May 03, 2024
This book focuses on understanding the thinking of one of the greatest economists of the 20th century, John Maynard Keynes (JMK), stressing the evolution of his thinking from adherence to the classic Quantity Theory of Money to the development of his own novel theories of unemployment, stagnation ...
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 ...