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.
Central Banks in Organizational Networks: Entangled Market Actors
1st Edition
By Christoph F-D. Wu
January 29, 2024
This inter-disciplinary and wide-ranging study unravels the social processes of decision-making at the interface of central banks and financial market participants, and thereby raises important questions about responsible central bank governance and its obligations to stakeholders in society. The ...
Pension Fund Capitalism: The Privatization of Pensions in Developed and Developing Countries
1st Edition
By Leokadia Oręziak
January 29, 2024
This book examines the origins and consequences of so-called pension fund capitalism, which has spread around the world since 1981, when the pension system was completely privatized in Chile. The author highlights the driving forces behind the privatization of pensions, its forms and tools used in ...
Moral Hazard: A Financial, Legal, and Economic Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Juan Flores Zendejas, Norbert Gaillard, Rick Michalek
September 25, 2023
Moral Hazard is a core concept in economics. In a nutshell, moral hazard reflects the reduced incentive to protect against risk where an entity is (or believes it will be) protected from its consequences, whether through an insurance arrangement or an implicit or explicit guarantee system. It is ...
Financialization, Financial Literacy, and Social Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas A. Lucey
May 31, 2023
The objective of this book is to prompt a re-examination of financial literacy, its social foundations, and its relationship to citizenship education. The collection includes topics that concern indigenous people’s perspectives, critical race theory, and transdisciplinary perspectives, which invite...
Mergers, Acquisitions and International Financial Regulation: Analysing Special Purpose Acquisition Companies
1st Edition
By Daniele D'Alvia
May 31, 2023
This is a much-needed work in the financial literature, and it is the first book ever to analyse the use of Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) from a theoretical and practical perspective. By the end of 2020, more than 240 SPACs were listed in the US (on NASDAQ or the NYSE), raising a ...
The Financialized Economy: Theoretical Views and Empirical Cases
1st Edition
By Alexander Styhre
January 09, 2023
Social science theorists from various scholarly disciplines have contributed to a recent literature that examines how the finance industry has expanded and now wields increasing influence across a variety of economic fields and industries. In some cases, this tendency towards a more sizeable and ...
Environmental Risk Modelling in Banking
1st Edition
Edited
By Magdalena Ziolo
December 29, 2022
Environmental risk directly affects the financial stability of banks since they bear the financial consequences of the loss of liquidity of the entities to which they lend and of the financial penalties imposed resulting from the failure to comply with regulations and for actions taken that are ...
Finance and Sustainable Development: Designing Sustainable Financial Systems
1st Edition
Edited
By Magdalena Ziolo
August 01, 2022
There are many studies confirming the relationship between financial systems and economic development, but there are few which examine the degree to which financial systems a) impact the quality of information, b) influence sound corporate governance, c) ensure effective mechanisms of risk ...
The Economics of Cryptocurrencies
1st Edition
Edited
By J. Mark Munoz, Michael Frenkel
August 01, 2022
Cryptocurrencies have had a profound effect on financial markets worldwide. This edited book aims to explore the economic implications of the use of cryptocurrencies. Drawing from chapter contributors from around the world, the book will be a valuable resource on the economics of cryptocurrencies. ...
Behavioural Public Finance: Individuals, Society, and the State
1st Edition
Edited
By M. Mustafa Erdoğdu, Larissa Batrancea, Savaş Çevik
May 30, 2022
This book tackles political, social, and behavioural aspects of public finance and fiscal exchange. The book combines conventional approaches toward public finance with new developments in economics such as political governance, social and individual aspects of economic behaviour. It colligates ...
Monetary Policy after the Great Recession: The Role of Interest Rates
1st Edition
By Arkadiusz Sieroń
May 30, 2022
Walter Bagehot noticed once that “John Bull can stand many things, but he cannot stand two per cent.” Well, for several years, he has had to stand interest rates well below that, in some countries even below zero. However, despite this sacrifice, the economic recovery from the Great Recession has ...
Capital and Finance: Theory and History
1st Edition
By Peter Lewin, Nicolás Cachanosky
May 06, 2022
This book applies finance to the field of capital theory. While financial economics is a well-established field of study, the specific application of finance to capital theory remains unexplored. It is the first book to comprehensively study this financial application, which also includes modern ...