Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
About the Book Series
This series explores the roles of money and banking in the modern world. Banking is an increasingly important and international industry, and its interaction with money is a major concern for the world's economic policy-makers.
Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy: A Keynesian Perspective
1st Edition
By Carl Chiarella, Peter Flaschel, Reiner Franke, Willi Semmler
April 23, 2012
The financial instability and its spillover to the real sector have become a great challenge to macro-economic theory. The book takes a Keynesian theoretical perspective, representing an attempt to revive what Keynes stressed in his General Theory, namely the role of the financial market in ...
Banking in Central and Eastern Europe 1980-2006: From Communism to Capitalism
1st Edition
By Stephan Barisitz
November 15, 2011
Comparative in structure and covering an extensive number of transition countries in its survey, this comprehensive book overviews the development of the banking systems in Central and Eastern European since the communist era until the present time. Taking in a range of countries including Hungary,...
Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By Luigi Bernardi, Alberto Barreix, Anna Marenzi, Paola Profeta
November 15, 2011
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of tax systems and tax reforms in a number of Latin American countries since the early 1990’s, including Argentina and Brazil, Costa Rica and Mexico, Paraguay, Colombia, Chile and Uruguay. The authors present and discuss tax systems from a broad ...
Designing Central Banks
1st Edition
Edited
By David G. Mayes, Geoffrey E. Wood
August 17, 2011
The activities of central banks are relevant to everyone in society. This book starts by considering how and why in general central banks evolved and specifically the special aspects of the contribution of the Northern European Central Banking Tradition. With that foundation, the book will then ...
Taxation and Gender Equity: A Comparative Analysis of Direct and Indirect Taxes in Developing and Developed Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By Caren Grown, Imraan Valodia
July 09, 2010
Around the world, there are concerns that many tax codes are biased against women, and that contemporary tax reforms tend to increase the incidence of taxation on the poorest women while failing to generate enough revenue to fund the programs needed to improve these women’s lives. Because taxes are...
Monetary Growth Theory: Money, Interest, Prices, Capital, Knowledge and Economic Structure over Time and Space
1st Edition
By Wei-Bin Zhang
July 06, 2010
This book answers some challenging questions in monetary growth theory within a compact theoretical framework. The author succeeds in integrating the theory of money, the theory of value and the theory of growth. The book re-examines many important ideas in modern monetary economics within a single...
Money, Uncertainty and Time
1st Edition
By Giuseppe Fontana
July 06, 2010
This excellent new book from one of the brightest young economists, Giuseppe Fontana, involves a compendium of issues surrounding uncertainty, money and time. Fontana shines a post Keynesian light onto statements and claims made by well-known neo-classical authors and as such leaves readers ...
Central Banking, Asset Prices and Financial Fragility
1st Edition
By Eric Tymoigne
June 18, 2010
The current literature on central banking contains two distinct branches. On the one side, research focuses on the impact of monetary policy on economic growth, unemployment, and output-price inflation, while ignoring financial aspects. On the other side, some scholars leave aside macroeconomics in...
Bank Performance: A Theoretical and Empirical Framework for the Analysis of Profitability, Competition and Efficiency
1st Edition
By Jacob Bikker, Jaap W.B. Bos
December 17, 2009
Economic literature pays a great deal of attention to the performance of banks, expressed in terms of competition, concentration, efficiency, productivity and profitability. This book provides an all-embracing framework for the various existing theories in this area and illustrates these theories ...
Competition and Profitability in European Financial Services: Strategic, Systemic and Policy Issues
1st Edition
By Morten Balling, Frank Lierman, Andy Mullineux
February 18, 2009
Financial services firms play a key role in the European economy. The efficiency and profitability of these firms and the competition among them have an impact on allocation of savings, financing of investment, economic growth, the stability of the financial system and the transmission of monetary ...
The Lender of Last Resort
1st Edition
Edited
By Forrest Capie, Geoffrey E. Wood
January 25, 2008
The capacity of national central banks to 'step in' and bail out an economy is one which has proved to be vitally important over the years. This collection from Wood and Capie brings together important literature for the first time in book form....
Central Banking Systems Compared: The ECB, The Pre-Euro Bundesbank and the Federal Reserve System
1st Edition
By Emmanuel Apel
November 09, 2007
This new study provides a comprehensive survey of the recently established European financial system in comparison to previous European systems and the US Federal Reserve. This well-written contribution to financial economics should be of interest to academics as well as professionals concerned ...