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.
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 ...
Islamic Economics and Finance: A Glossary
2nd Edition
By Muhammad Akram Khan
September 17, 2007
Islamic economics and finance have increased in importance over the last few decades, with new Islamic financial institutions opening up and a number of important books published on the topic.This glossary, fully updated and revised for the new edition, uses easy to understand language to introduce...
Money Doctors: The Experience of International Financial Advising 1850-2000
1st Edition
Edited
By Marc Flandreau
September 29, 2003
The book brings together internationally respected specialists from economics, history and political science such as Harold James, Louis Pauly and Kenneth Mouré. First providing a short history of money doctors, the book then goes on to cover such themes as:*the IMF and policy advice*the Russian ...
Financial Market Risk: Measurement and Analysis
1st Edition
By Cornelis Los
September 22, 2003
This new book uses advanced signal processing technology to measure and analyze risk phenomena of the financial markets. It explains how to scientifically measure, analyze and manage non-stationarity and long-term time dependence (long memory) of financial market returns. It studies, in particular,...
A History of Monetary Unions
1st Edition
By John F Chown
April 25, 2003
In this comprehensive historical overview, the author writes about monetary unions with an admirable completeness and covers such themes as:*The Gold Standard*Monetary Unions in Countries and Areas from Latin America to The British Empire to Japan and Korea with many in between*EMU and its Policy ...
Technology and Finance: Challenges for Financial Markets, Business Strategies and Policy Makers
1st Edition
Edited
By Morten Balling, Frank Lierman, Andy Mullineux
December 06, 2002
Technology and Finance analyses the dramatic implications of technology for today's financial sector, for productivity growth and for monetary policy. A wide range of financial market activities are now technology driven; technology is also crucial in retail, private and corporate banking, and it ...
Monetary Policy, Capital Flows and Exchange Rates: Essays in Memory of Maxwell Fry
1st Edition
Edited
By William Allen, David Dickinson
March 29, 2002
Maxwell Fry was known internationally for his research into international and domestic financial issues. This book constitutes a tribute to his pioneering work in so many areas, and draws together contributions from a range of academic and policy-making colleagues who were fortunate enough to ...
Monetary Stability in Europe
1st Edition
By Stefan Collignon
March 29, 2002
In this book, the author presents fresh perspectives on the theories surrounding European Monetary Union. Urging the reader to examine conventional ideas from new viewpoints, he discusses the events which led to EMU, analyses the current situation, and projects possible futures.Essential reading ...
Adapting to Financial Globalisation
1st Edition
Edited
By Morten Balling, Elizabeth Hennessy, Eduard H. Hochreiter
July 25, 2001
Adapting to the demands of financial globalisation is currently one of the most pressing preoccupations of bankers, financial institutions and financial authorities. Many aspects of this issue are addressed in this volume, based on a colloquium held in Vienna in April 2000 by the Société ...
Finance: A Characteristics Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By David Blake
June 05, 2000
Since the 1980s, the characteristics model in economics has been applied to the field of finance, and offers a fresh perspective for understanding financial behaviour. This book brings together some of the latest research by leading exponents of the characteristics model and its application to ...
Organisational Change and Retail Finance: An Ethnographic Perspective
1st Edition
By Richard Harper, David Randall, Mark Rouncefield
February 08, 2000
Financial organizations, like many others, are undergoing radical change. This is affecting both their organizational processes and the technology that supports those processes. This book reports on the use of sociological ethnography in helping guide these changes, both in terms of helping better ...