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.
Policy Makers on Policy: The Mais Lectures
2nd Edition
Edited
By Forrest Capie, Geoffrey E. Wood
August 14, 2018
Monetary policy is still one of the most contested areas of modern economics, and since the original publication of Policy Makers on Policy much has changed. This new edition collects contributions from leading policy makers and practitioners to reflect on the aims and objectives of monetary ...
Wages, Bonuses and Appropriation of Profit in the Financial Industry: The working rich
1st Edition
By Olivier Godechot
August 14, 2018
The 2008 financial crisis led the whole world to ask questions of the financial industry. Why are wages in the financial industry so high? Are bonuses responsible for the financial crisis? Where do bonuses come from? Politicians and others urged people to believe that the crisis was the price ...
Banking and Monetary Policies in a Changing Financial Environment: A regulatory approach
1st Edition
By Wassim Shahin, Elias El-Achkar
July 24, 2018
The 21st century witnessed major changes in the financial environment surrounding bank regulators and banks. Banking and Monetary Policies in a Changing Financial Environment delves into three of these developments and challenges. The first change in the financial environment relates to the rise ...
European Banking Union: Prospects and challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Juan E. Castañeda, David G. Mayes, Geoffrey E. Wood
January 24, 2018
Recent failures and rescues of large banks have resulted in colossal costs to society. In wake of such turmoil a new banking union must enable better supervision, pre-emptive coordinated action and taxpayer protection. While these aims are meritorious they will be difficult to achieve. This book ...
Modern Monetary Theory and European Macroeconomics
1st Edition
By Dirk H. Ehnts
June 16, 2017
This book provides a new methodological approach to money and macroeconomics. Realizing that the abstract equilibrium models lacked descriptions of fundamental issues of a modern monetary economy, the focus of this book lies on the (stylized) balance sheets of the main actors. Money, after all, is ...
Money, Valuation and Growth: Conceptualizations and contradictions of the money economy
1st Edition
By Hasse Ekstedt
June 16, 2017
We have experienced an era of extreme anti-inflationary policy combined with debts and deficits, the result of which has been a decrease in social stability. This book examines how using mainstream theory as the basis for economic decisions leads to misunderstandings of central concepts of our ...
The Global Financial Crisis and the New Monetary Consensus
1st Edition
By Marc Pilkington
November 07, 2016
The Global Financial Crisis has reshuffled the cards for central banks throughout the world. In the wake of the biggest crisis since the Great Depression, this volume traces the evolution of modern central banking over the last fifty years. It takes in the inflationary chaos of the 1970s and the ...
The Euro: A Challenge and Opportunity for Financial Markets
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Artis, Elizabeth Hennessy, Axel Weber
July 08, 2016
In this book leading financial professionals and academics examine the prospects for the European single currency. The impact of the Euro is assessed in terms of risks and opportunities for financial intermediaries, challenges for monetary and supervisory authorities and issues for portfolio ...
Exchange Rate Dynamics: A New Open Economy Macroeconomics Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean-OIiver Hairault, Thepthida Sopraseuth
June 17, 2016
This important new book builds upon the seminal work by Obsfeld and Rogoff, Foundations of International Macroeconomics and aims at providing a coherent and modern framework for thinking about exchange rate dynamics. With a wide range of contributions, this book is likely to be welcomed by the ...
Bank Deregulation & Monetary Order
1st Edition
By George Selgin
December 18, 2015
Can the 'invisible hand' handle money? George Selgin challenges the view that government regulation creates monetary order and stability, and instead shows it to be the main source of monetary crisis. The volume is divided into three sections: * Part I refutes conventional wisdom holding that any ...
Money and its Origins
1st Edition
By Shahzavar Karimzadi
August 19, 2015
The concept of the origin of money has been a topic of interest and discussion to almost all schools of economic thought. However, in spite of minor differences of interpretation, most views share an underlying core principal about the rise and origin of money, implicit in which is the central ...
Financial Geography: A Banker's View
1st Edition
By Risto Laulajainen
May 21, 2015
This truly internationally-focused book is a readable, comprehensive guide to the economic geography of the world's financial centres that is as enjoyable to read as it is informative. All students and academics involved with economic geography as well as professionals in the banking and finance ...