Routledge Library Editions: Banking & Finance
About the Book Series
Current interest in the history of money and banking remains strong and it is opportune to survey developments both in the UK, USA, Europe and Asia. This set provides historical analysis which incorporates research from the early twentieth century onwards in a form that is both accessible to students of money & banking and economists, economic historians and bankers
This set re-issues 38 volumes originally published between 1900 and 2000. It charts the history of early banking, discusses banking in the UK, Europe,Japan and the USA, analyses banks as multinationals, the UK mortgage market, banking policy and structure and examines specific sectors such as gilts and gold.
Banking and Finance in West Germany (RLE Banking & Finance)
1st Edition
By Hans Francke, Michael Hudson
June 09, 2014
This is a clear guide to the German financial system. It begins by outlining its historical development, emphasising the growth of close ties between the banking system and industry, and goes on to describe in details the nature of the credit institutions in general and the money and capital ...
Banking in Europe (RLE Banking & Finance): The Single Market
1st Edition
By Robert Dixon
June 09, 2014
This book describes the different banking systems of the twelve European Community countries and examines how they were affected by the Single European market of 1992. Exploring the implications of relevant EC legislation, the book highlights the problems that face financial institutions trying to ...
Mortgage Market (RLE Banking & Finance): Theory and Practice of Housing Finance
1st Edition
By Mark Boleat
June 09, 2014
Beginning with a theoretical analysis of housing finance in the context of housing markets and financial intermediation generally, the authors then analyse, drawing on international experience, each of the main types of housing finance system: informal, deposit taking, contract and mortgage bank. ...
Sovereign Risk Analysis (RLE Banking & Finance)
1st Edition
By Shelagh Heffernan
June 09, 2014
Directed both at students of international finance and practitioners in the field, the book stresses the importance of treating the analysis of sovereign risk in a more general framework than is typically the case, identifying the components of both the demand and supply of sovereign loans. The ...
The Export of Capital from Britain (RLE Banking & Finance): 1870-1914
1st Edition
Edited
By A Hall
June 09, 2014
During the years before 1914 the world’s still largely unused resources were brought increasingly within the framework of a single world economy. This process owed much to Britain’s ability to export capital on a scale which has never since been equalled. Yet periods of heavy investment overseas ...
The Multinational Banking Industry (RLE Banking & Finance)
1st Edition
By Neil Coulbeck
June 09, 2014
The role of international banks within the developed economies has come under increasingly hostile public scrutiny, yet little attention has been paid to the structure and purpose of the banks themselves. Most existing studies concentrate on the part played by international banks as intermediaries ...
UK Banking After Deregulation (RLE: Banking & Finance)
1st Edition
By Andy Mullineux
June 09, 2014
How does financial deregulation affect the operation of the banking system in the UK? What are the consequences of the development of an electronic banking system? This book addresses these and other important questions in a survey of UK change in the financial sector and in banking in particular....
Banking Policy and Structure (RLE Banking & Finance): A Comparative Analysis
1st Edition
By J Wilson
March 07, 2014
This book provides a comparative analysis of the several types of banking structure and the ways in which banks undertake their business. It surveys central banking arrangements in a number of countries. Against an historical background, it describes banking systems ranging from the so-called ‘unit...
Banking Services and the Consumer (RLE: Banking & Finance)
1st Edition
By Consumer Focus
March 07, 2014
This report, prepared for the government by the National Consumer Council, examines money transmission, access to banking services, new technology, banking and the law, disputes between bank and customer, saving and borrowing. There are special sections on Northern Ireland and Scotland and on bank ...
Banking and Finance in Japan (RLE Banking & Finance): An Introduction to the Tokyo Market
1st Edition
By Kazuo Tatewaki
March 07, 2014
The Tokyo market has often been a difficult financial environment for the non-Japanese to understand. This volume, written for an international readership provides a study of the financial centre behind one of the world’s largest economies....
Banking in an Unregulated Environment (RLE Banking & Finance): California, 1878-1905
1st Edition
By Lynne Doti
March 07, 2014
The study of financial history has never been more important. This volume focuses on theories about the relationship of financial markets to the rest of the economy. Searching out information on financial institutions and markets from the past, this work tests theories from the 1980s and 90s with ...
Banks and Politics During the Progressive Era (RLE Banking & Finance)
1st Edition
By Richard McCulley
March 07, 2014
Despite the political potency of money and banking issues, historians have largely dismissed the Progressive Era political debate over banking as irrelevant and have been preoccupied with explaining the shortcomings, limitations and inadequacies of the Federal Reserve Act. The picture that has ...