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.
Performance Measurement Systems in Banks
1st Edition
By Rahat Munir, Kevin Baird
December 18, 2020
Given the significant changes in the banking environment and the resultant pressures on banks to change their systems and procedures, this book is a timely reference that provides a comprehensive analytical overview of changes in the performance measurement system (PMS) of banks in the ...
Public Value Theory and Budgeting: International Perspectives
1st Edition
By Usman W. Chohan
December 18, 2020
Public value theory has advanced over the past 30 years, but there is a need to extend its boundary outwards into new contexts and update its discourse to reflect new social challenges. We are now trying to create value in a globalized world, with supranational entities, with new international ...
The Financial Markets of the Arab Gulf: Power, Politics and Money
1st Edition
By Jean Francois Seznec, Samer Mosis
December 18, 2020
Financial markets across the Arabian Peninsula have gone from being small, quasi-medieval structures in the 1960s to large world-class groupings of financial institutions. This evolution has been fueled by vast increases in income from oil and natural gas. The Financial Markets of the Arab ...
The Rise and Development of FinTech: Accounts of Disruption from Sweden and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Robin Teigland, Shahryar Siri, Anthony Larsson, Alejandro Moreno Puertas, Claire Ingram Bogusz
December 18, 2020
This comprehensive guide serves to illuminate the rise and development of FinTech in Sweden, with the Internet as the key underlying driver. The multiple case studies examine topics such as: the adoption of online banking in Sweden; the identification and classification of different FinTech ...
A New Measure of Competition in the Financial Industry: The Performance-Conduct-Structure Indicator
1st Edition
Edited
By Jacob Bikker, Michiel van Leuvensteijn
September 30, 2020
The 2008 credit crisis started with the failure of one large bank: Lehman Brothers. Since then the focus of both politicians and regulators has been on stabilising the economy and preventing future financial instability. At this juncture, we are at the last stage of future-proofing the financial ...
Financial Literacy in Europe: Assessment Methodologies and Evidence from European Countries
1st Edition
By Gianni Nicolini
September 30, 2020
Are people ready to take pivotal financial decisions like choosing a mortgage, saving for retirement, or investing their savings? How does the degree of knowledge about financial products and services affect the quality of their choices? Can financial fraud be prevented by increasing consumer ...
Money, Inflation and Business Cycles: The Cantillon Effect and the Economy
1st Edition
By Arkadiusz Sieroń
September 30, 2020
Who would disagree that money matters? Economists have yet to sufficiently explore issues related to monetary inflation in relation to the Cantillon effect, i.e. distribution and price effects resulting from uneven changes in the money supply and their impact on the economy. This book fills this ...
Monetary Equilibrium and Nominal Income Targeting
1st Edition
By Nicolás Cachanosky
August 14, 2020
This book examines the case of nominal income targeting as a monetary policy rule. In recent years the most well-known nominal income targeting rule has been NGDP (level) Targeting, associated with a group of economists referred to as market monetarists (Scott Sumner, David Beckworth, and Lars...
Money, Markets and Capital: The Case for a Monetary Analysis
1st Edition
By Jean Cartelier
August 14, 2020
Money and payments are familiar to everybody. Economists however are often at a loss in assessing the extent to which money matters. As a matter of fact, money is at the origin of the main cleavage in economic theory. Beyond sophisticated models what is at stake is whether money is just an ...
Distance, Rating Systems and Enterprise Finance: Ethnographic Insights from a Comparison of Regional and Large Banks in Germany
1st Edition
By Franz Flögel
June 30, 2020
In response to the credit crunch during the global financial crisis of 2007–2008, many have called for the re-establishment of regional banks in the UK and elsewhere. In this context, Germany’s regional banking system, with its more than 1,400 small and regional savings banks and cooperative banks,...
Financial Systems in Troubled Waters: Information, Strategies, and Governance to Enhance Performances in Risky Times
1st Edition
Edited
By Alessandro Carretta, Gianluca Mattarocci
June 30, 2020
This collection considers the financial crisis from a managerial perspective, focussing on the business implications for the financial industry. Topics examined include governance, information needs and strategy of financial intermediaries and investors. The contributions build on the existing ...
Complexities of Financial Globalisation: Analytical and Policy Issues in Emerging and Developing Economies
1st Edition
By Tony Cavoli, Sasidaran Gopalan, Ramkishen S. Rajan
May 27, 2020
Since the 1990s, several emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) have, to varying degrees, embraced the process of financial globalisation, broadly defined as a set of policies that involve allowing for greater openness to cross-border capital flows as well as greater market access to ...