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.
The Cryptocurrency Phenomenon: The Origins, Evolution and Economics of Digital Currencies
1st Edition
By Gianni Nicolini, Silvia Intini
December 18, 2024
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the cryptocurrency phenomenon from a financial/monetary point of view. It offers a unique slant in at least two ways, with the financial perspective as the reference point. An examination of the technicalities surrounding blockchain and the mining of...
Inflation Dynamic: Global Positive Economic Analysis
1st Edition
By Weshah Razzak
November 28, 2024
This book explains inflation dynamic, using time series data from 1960 for 42 countries. These countries are different in every aspect, historically, culturally, socially, politically, institutionally, and economically. They are chosen on the basis of the data availability only and cover the Middle...
Digital Currencies and the New Global Financial System
1st Edition
Edited
By Ranjan Aneja, Robert Dygas
August 26, 2024
This book analyses the current debate around Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) and the future of New Global Financial System. It offers deep insight into the global monetary policy in the context of digital and cryptocurrencies and examines both the opportunities and challenges to come. The ...
Money, Debt and Politics: The Bank of Lisbon and the Portuguese Liberal Revolution of 1820
1st Edition
By José Luís Cardoso
August 26, 2024
This book presents an innovative history of the first Portuguese public bank, by exploring the relationship between banking activities and the political context. It provides an overview of the origins of the banking system in Portugal, and also in Brazil, and explores new archive materials related ...
Negative Interest Rates and Financial Stability: Lessons in Systemic Risk
1st Edition
By Karol Rogowicz, Małgorzata Iwanicz-Drozdowska
August 26, 2024
This book sheds new light on a recently introduced monetary tool – negative interest rates policy (NIRP). It provides in-depth insight into this phenomenon, conducted by the central banks in several economies, for example, the Eurozone, Switzerland and Japan, and its possible impact on systemic ...
The Digital Revolution in Banking, Insurance and Capital Markets
1st Edition
Edited
By Lech Gąsiorkiewicz, Jan Monkiewicz
August 26, 2024
The digital transformation of finance and banking enables traditional services to be delivered in a more effective and efficient way but, at the same time, presents crucial issues such as fast-growing new asset classes, new currencies, datafication and data privacy, algorithmization of law and ...
Digital Finance and the Future of the Global Financial System: Disruption and Innovation in Financial Services
1st Edition
Edited
By Lech Gąsiorkiewicz, Jan Monkiewicz
May 27, 2024
This book offers an in-depth analysis of the most salient features of contemporary financial systems and clarifies the major strategic issues facing the development of digital finance. It provides insight into how the digital finance system actually works in a socioeconomic context. It presents ...
Responsible Finance and Digitalization: Implications and Developments
1st Edition
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By Panu Kalmi, Tommi Auvinen, Marko Järvenpää
May 27, 2024
The aftermath of the 2008 crisis has substantially increased the regulation of banks and insurance companies and curtailed their risk taking, which has shifted much of the risk to their clients: firms and consumers. At the same time, digitalization has encouraged the entry of new firms combining ...
Sovereign Debt Sustainability: Multilateral Debt Treatment and the Credit Rating Impasse
1st Edition
By Daniel Cash
May 27, 2024
In 2020, the G20 proposed a solution for the debt-related issues affecting the world’s poorest countries due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, their initiatives have failed to meet their objectives. The author argues that the reason for this failure is the inability to bring sovereign countries to...
Central Banks in Organizational Networks: Entangled Market Actors
1st Edition
By Christoph F-D. Wu
January 29, 2024
This inter-disciplinary and wide-ranging study unravels the social processes of decision-making at the interface of central banks and financial market participants, and thereby raises important questions about responsible central bank governance and its obligations to stakeholders in society. The ...
Pension Fund Capitalism: The Privatization of Pensions in Developed and Developing Countries
1st Edition
By Leokadia Oręziak
January 29, 2024
This book examines the origins and consequences of so-called pension fund capitalism, which has spread around the world since 1981, when the pension system was completely privatized in Chile. The author highlights the driving forces behind the privatization of pensions, its forms and tools used in ...
Moral Hazard: A Financial, Legal, and Economic Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Juan Flores Zendejas, Norbert Gaillard, Rick Michalek
September 25, 2023
Moral Hazard is a core concept in economics. In a nutshell, moral hazard reflects the reduced incentive to protect against risk where an entity is (or believes it will be) protected from its consequences, whether through an insurance arrangement or an implicit or explicit guarantee system. It is ...