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.
International Tax Coordination: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Virtues and Pitfalls
1st Edition
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By Martin Zagler
November 08, 2013
International taxation is a major research topic, and for a field of research at the intersection of so many disciplines there has been surprisingly little done across disciplinary boundaries. This book fills the gap by combining teams from business, economics, information science, law and ...
Monetary Policy Over Fifty Years: Experiences and Lessons
1st Edition
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By Heinz Herrmann
November 08, 2013
This book is based on a conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Deutsche Bundesbank. Since the 1950s, there have been fundamental changes in the monetary order and financial systems, in our understanding of the effects of monetary policy, the best goals for central banks and the ...
Monetary and Banking History: Essays in Honour of Forrest Capie
1st Edition
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By Geoffrey Wood, Terence Mills, Nicholas Crafts
November 08, 2013
Forrest Capie is an eminent economic historian who has published extensively on a wide range of topics, with an emphasis on banking and monetary history, particularly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but also in other areas such as tariffs and the interwar economy. He is also a former ...
New Approaches to Monetary Theory: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Heiner Ganßmann
November 08, 2013
Everybody uses money every day, but we rarely stop to think about how money works. In this book, scholars from different disciplines seek to answer that question; from historians to economists, sociologists, a philosopher and a physicist. Money works as a social construction because we have mutual ...
The Capital Needs of Central Banks
1st Edition
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By Sue Milton, Peter Sinclair
November 08, 2013
Central banks have evolved over many years, and sometimes centuries, as policy-making, not profit-making, institutions, and yet they are structured legally and financially like ‘for-profit’ companies of the twenty-first century. The question is what is an appropriate level of equity, or capital, ...
The New International Monetary System: Essays in Honor of Alexander Swoboda
1st Edition
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By Charles Wyplosz
November 08, 2013
The New International Monetary System brings together twelve original contributions by leading scholars and practitioners to a conference convened in May 2008 on the occasion of the retirement of Alexander Swoboda. The contributions are arranged in three main parts. Part I deals with the ...
Inflation Theory in Economics: Welfare, Velocity, Growth and Business Cycles
1st Edition
By Max Gillman
September 03, 2013
These essays bring together a progression in monetary theory. The major theme that runs through all of the chapters is that in order to do monetary economics well in general equilibrium, it helps to have a good money demand underlying the theory. A proper underlying money demand sets up arguably ...
Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in South and East Asia
1st Edition
By Luigi Bernardi, Angela Fraschini, Parthasarathi Shome
August 07, 2013
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, ...
Towards a Socioanalysis of Money, Finance and Capitalism: Beneath the Surface of the Financial Industry
1st Edition
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By Susan Long, Burkard Sievers
June 18, 2013
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...
The Means to Prosperity: Fiscal Policy Reconsidered
1st Edition
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By Per Gunnar Berglund, Matias Vernengo
May 10, 2013
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 ...
Institutional Change in the Payments System and Monetary Policy
1st Edition
By Stefan W. Schmitz, Geoffrey Wood
November 14, 2012
"Central bankers worldwide welcome the recent increase of research on payment systems. This volume, providing an expert overview on this timely subject, should be required reading for us all". - Erkki Liikanen, Governor of the Bank of Finland Monetary policy has been at the centre of economic ...
Architects of the International Financial System
1st Edition
By Anthony Endres
September 25, 2012
Who were the great thinkers on international finance in the mid-twentieth century? What did they propose should be done to create a stable international financial order for promoting world trade and economic growth? This important book studies the ideas of some of the most innovative economists in...