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1. The Dynamics of Organizational Collapse

   The Case of Barings Bank

   By Helga Drummond

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

   The collapse of Barings’ Bank was a commercial catastrophe that resonated worldwide, showing what kind of secrets can lie behind an apparently successful organization. Following Nick Leeson’s arrest and subsequent conviction for fraud, investment banks anxiously reviewed their risk management...

   Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
2. Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy

   A Keynesian Perspective

   By Carl Chiarella, Peter Flaschel, Reiner Franke, Willi Semmler

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

   The financial instability and its spillover to the real sector have become a great challenge to macro-economic theory. The book takes a Keynesian theoretical perspective, representing an attempt to revive what Keynes stressed in his General Theory, namely the role of the financial market in...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
3. Banking Crises, Liquidity, and Credit Lines

   A Macroeconomic Perspective

   By Gurbachan Singh

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

   The banking crisis in 2007-10 was one amongst many such crises in the past. This book provides a fresh approach to liquidity. It starts from basics and gradually builds up analysis of credit lines with few technicalities. Though the analysis is theoretical, the book provides a historical background...

   Published April 10th 2012 by Routledge
4. Banking Regulation and the Financial Crisis

   By Jin Cao

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

   This book is a review on the economic theories of systemic risks in the financial market and the topics in constructing the macroprudential framework for banking regulation in the future. It explains the reasons why the traditional microprudential regulatory framework missed its target in...

   Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge
5. Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in Latin America

   Edited by Luigi Bernardi, Alberto Barreix, Anna Marenzi, Paola Profeta

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

   This book provides a comprehensive analysis of tax systems and tax reforms in a number of Latin American countries since the early 1990’s, including Argentina and Brazil, Costa Rica and Mexico, Paraguay, Colombia, Chile and Uruguay. The authors present and discuss tax systems from a broad...

   Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
6. Banking in Central and Eastern Europe 1980-2006

   From Communism to Capitalism

   By Stephan Barisitz

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

   Comparative in structure and covering an extensive number of transition countries in its survey, this comprehensive book overviews the development of the banking systems in Central and Eastern European since the communist era until the present time. Taking in a range of countries including Hungary,...

   Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
7. Towards a Socioanalysis of Money, Finance and Capitalism

   Beneath the Surface of the Financial Industry

   Edited by Susan Long, Burkard Sievers

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

   The current global financial crisis has raised awareness of the impact the world of finance has on the economy and the future of democracy. Following the crisis, this book aims at a deep understanding of the human psycho-social dynamics beneath the surface of the financial industry, its markets and...

   Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
8. Designing Central Banks

   Edited by David Mayes, Geoffrey E Wood

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

   The activities of central banks are relevant to everyone in society. This book starts by considering how and why in general central banks evolved and specifically the special aspects of the contribution of the Northern European Central Banking Tradition. With that foundation, the book will then...

   Published September 30th 2011 by Routledge
9. Doing Money

   Elementary Monetary Theory from a Sociological Standpoint

   By Heiner Ganßmann

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

   This book puts in place the groundwork for an alternative theory of money in a sociological perspective, proceeding by way of a critique of existing theories....

   Published July 12th 2011 by Routledge
10. Prediction Markets

    Theory and Applications

    Edited by Leighton Vaughan Williams

    Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

    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...

    Published June 15th 2011 by Routledge