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.
New Paradigms in Financial Economics: How Would Keynes Reconstruct Economics?
1st Edition
By Kazem Falahati
July 03, 2014
The recent global financial crisis has made the inadequacies of the scientific state of economics and finance glaringly obvious, as these disciplines gave the false reassurance that such a self-destructive phenomenon could not happen. A similar phenomenon arose in the 1930’s, when the pitfalls of ...
Credit and Collateral
1st Edition
By Vania Sena
June 19, 2014
Collateral - generally defined as an asset used to provide security for a lender's loan - is an important feature of credit contracts and all the available evidence suggests that its use is getting more pervasive. This informative book builds upon recent research into this topic. Sena analyses ...
Debt, Risk and Liquidity in Futures Markets
1st Edition
By Barry Goss
June 19, 2014
The issues of developing country debt crises, increased volatility and risk, and the determination of market liquidity are high on the agendas of policy makers, market participants and researchers in the area of financial markets. These issues are also of major importance to regulators and exchange...
Dollarization: Lessons from Europe for the Americas
1st Edition
Edited
By Louis-Phillipe Rochon, Mario Seccareccia
June 19, 2014
The use of the US dollar for domestic monetary transactions outside the USA has gone on for many years now - Panama in 1904 being the earliest example. Since the advent of the Euro, the debate over the benefits of monetary integration has warmed up - particularly for NAFTA countries.This collection...
International Financial Co-Operation: Political Economics of Compliance with the 1988 Basel Accord
1st Edition
By Bryce Quillin
June 19, 2014
The Basel Accord - now commonly referred to as "Basel I" - has exerted a profound influence on international financial politics and domestic prudential financial sector regulatory policy yet great controversy has always surrounded the Accord’s impact on the safety and competitiveness of the world’s...
Monetary Policy in Central Europe
1st Edition
By Miroslav Beblavý
June 19, 2014
In this book Miroslav Beblavý, who has been involved in policy-making at the highest level in his country, offers a detailed study of monetary policy and monetary institutions in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia during the 1990s and the early 2000s and a more general look at ...
Open Market Operations and Financial Markets
1st Edition
Edited
By David Mayes, Jan Toporowski
June 19, 2014
A mixture of academic and practitioner research, this is the most detailed book available that provides an account of open market operations. With broad international appeal it includes discussions of central bank operations in Europe, North America, Australia and Japan. Exploring the ...
The Future of Payment Systems
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Millard, Andrew Haldane, Victoria Saporta
June 19, 2014
Drawing on wide-ranging contributions from prominent international experts and discussing some of the most pressing issues facing policy makers and practitioners in the field of payment systems today, this volume provides cutting-edge perspectives on the current issues surrounding payment systems ...
The Structure of Financial Regulation
1st Edition
Edited
By David G. Mayes, Geoffrey E. Wood
June 19, 2014
This book examines the area of financial regulation in the banking sector. Editors Mayes and Wood bring together such acadmics as Charles Goodhart, Charles Calomiris and Kern Alexander whose expertise shines through this volume to provide a reference tool for researchers, students and bankers ...
Prediction Markets: Theory and Applications
1st Edition
Edited
By Leighton Vaughan Williams
May 30, 2014
How can we effectively aggregate disparate pieces of information that are spread among many different individuals? In other words, how does one best access the ‘wisdom of the crowd’? Prediction markets, which are essentially speculative markets created for the purpose of aggregating information and...
Reforming the Governance of the Financial Sector
1st Edition
Edited
By David Mayes, Geoffrey Wood
May 30, 2014
Many financial institutions have in recent years failed – failed either completely, and gone into bankruptcy, or failed in the sense that they have not achieved what their owners or their customers expected them to deliver. This has had significant and adverse effects on customers, taxpayers, ...
Social Banks and the Future of Sustainable Finance
1st Edition
Edited
By Olaf Weber, Sven Remer
May 30, 2014
Social Banking describes a way of value-driven banking that has a positive social and ecological impact at its heart, as well as its own economic sustainability. Although it has a long and successful history, it has arguably never been more topical than it is now in the aftermath of the latest ...