Finance Books

New and Published Books

1. The Theory of Futures Trading (Routledge Revivals)

   By Barry Goss

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1972, this book provides an important critical review on the theory of futures trading. B. A. Goss looks at the work and ideas of Keynes and Hicks on futures, and considers how these have also been developed by Kaldor. He discusses the evolution of the concept of hedging in the...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Futures Markets (Routledge Revivals)

   Their Establishment and Performance

   By Barry Goss

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1986, this book discusses many important aspects of the theory and practice of Futures Markets. It describes how they, at the time, grew to be an increasingly important feature of the world's major financial centres. Indeed, they adopted the role of being efficient forward...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Asset Management and International Capital Markets

   Edited by Wolfgang Bessler, Wolfgang Drobetz, Chris Adcock

   This innovative volume comprises a selection of original research articles offering a broad perspective on various dimensions of asset management in an international capital market environment. The topics covered include risk management and asset pricing models for portfolio management, performance...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
4. Beyond Liquidity

   The Metaphor of Money in Financial Crisis

   Edited by Brad Pasanek, Simone Polillo

   ‘Liquidity’, or rather lack of it, lies at the heart of the ongoing global financial crisis. In this collection of essays, the metaphor of money as liquidity, and the model of crisis it entails, is deliberated by a range of scholars from economics, history, anthropology, literature, and sociology....

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
5. Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in South and East Asia

   By Luigi Bernardi, Angela Fraschini, Parthasarathi Shome

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

   This book examines the present status, recent tax reforms and planned tax policies in some South and East Asia countries since the 1990s. The evidence is presented in a user friendly manner, but at the same time uses technically sophisticated methods. The main countries studied are China, India,...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Booms, Bubbles and Busts in US Stock Markets

   By David L. Western

   In the US stock market things have changed a great deal since the heady days of the 1980s and we are now entering an era of profound uncertainty, with most analysts predicting trouble ahead. Indeed, the alarming decline of the NASDAQ shows no sign of abating and the fear is that traditional...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. The Means to Prosperity

   Fiscal Policy Reconsidered

   Edited by Per Gunnar Berglund, Matias Vernengo

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

   While recent developments in monetary theory have been fast to spread to policy analysis and practice and the media, the same is not true of fiscal policy, and a void has emerged. Issues such as timing, cyclical adjustments, long-term sustainability, and social implications are often seen as...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
8. Copulae and Multivariate Probability Distributions in Finance

   Edited by Alexandra Dias, Mark Salmon, Chris Adcock

   Portfolio theory and much of asset pricing, as well as many empirical applications, depend on the use of multivariate probability distributions to describe asset returns. Traditionally, this has meant the multivariate normal (or Gaussian) distribution. More recently, theoretical and empirical work...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
9. International Trade and Economic Growth (Collected Works of Harry Johnson)

   Studies in Pure Theory

   By Harry Johnson

   Series: Collected Works of Harry G. Johnson

   The studies collected in this volume embody the results of research conducted in the mid 1950s into various theoretical problems in international economics. They fall into three groups – comparative cost theory, trade and growth and balance of payments theory. This volume consolidates the work of...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
10. Money, Trade and Economic Growth (Collected Works of Harry Johnson)

    Survey Lectures in Economic Theory

    By Harry Johnson

    Series: Collected Works of Harry G. Johnson

    This book deals with the effects of international trade on economic growth and money. It also re-examines Keynesian theory and analyzes economic growth in an affluent society in terms of planning, economic and social policy....

    Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge