Banking

This book focuses on the core issues in money and banking. By using simple applications for anyone that understands basic economics, the lessons in...

The activities of central banks are relevant to everyone in society. This book starts by considering how and why in general central banks evolved a...

An objective and perceptive account of the literature of monetary theory, this volume, by a central banker who has studied monetary theory over the...

The capacity of national central banks to 'step in' and bail out an economy is one which has proved to be vitally important over the years. This co...

The main purpose of this volume is to organize, examine, and analyze the works of John Lansing Carey, the longest serving chief staff officer of th...

This book explores the potential and problems of bank safety and efficiency arising from the rapidly growing area of cross-border banking in the fo...

William D. Cohan's The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. is the astonishing story of the world's most elite and legendary...

The book brings together internationally respected specialists from economics, history and political science such as Harold James, Louis Pauly and ...

This book provides detailed systematic micro-level analysis of the historical development of the Chinese banking industry, focusing in particular o...

This volume presents a broad investigation into the relationship between the centre and the periphery in banking. Focusing on the historical develo...

The collapse of Barings’ Bank was a commercial catastrophe that resonated worldwide, showing what kind of secrets can lie behind an apparently succ...

Returning to its roots in activism and economic justice, this issue exposes accounting practice as a contested terrain by examining its role as a s...

Comparative in structure and covering an extensive number of transition countries in its survey, this comprehensive book overviews the development ...

Cross-border banking, while having the potential for a more efficient financial sector, also creates potential challenges for bank supervisors and ...

The issues of developing country debt crises, increased volatility and risk, and the determination of market liquidity are high on the agendas of p...

There is an endless supply of rave reviews for Alan Greenspan and the Fed. This is due to Greenspan's political manipulations, the reluctance of po...

Appointed president of the World Bank in 1995, James Wolfensohn struck it like a whirlwind, determined to reinvent the institution founded by Frank...

This book examines the area of financial regulation in the banking sector. Editors Mayes and Wood bring together such acadmics as Charles Goodhart,...

"Central bankers worldwide welcome the recent increase of research on payment systems. This volume, providing an expert overview on this timely sub...

This book provides valuable insights into the practical challenges faced by the nascent Islamic finance industry and compares the Australian experi...

In 1775 John and Francis Baring & Company was just one of many merchant houses in London riding the wave of expanding world trade. By 1803, ...

This is a comprehensive biography of Clarence Charles Hatry, 1888-1965, an enigmatic and charismatic public figure. Hatry was the son of Jewish imm...

The book provides deep insight into theoretical and empirical evidence on information and communication technologies (ICT) as an important factor a...

Indonesia is the most populous Muslim country in the world. Taking into account also its endowment and potential economic resources, the Islamic ba...

This book explains why the European Union (EU) Member States – in response to the euro crisis – agreed to establish banking union, despite previous...

In 2001, the London Stock Exchange will be 200 years old, though its origins go back a century before that. This book traces the history of the Lon...

In recent years, European financial economists have been brought together, via research projects and conferences, by the Centre for Economic Policy...

The deregulation and disintermediation processes, the globalization of financial markets, the emergence of new competitors, and the introduction of...

In recent years, European financial economists have been brought together, via research projects and bubble01ces, by the Centre for Economic Policy...

This book provides an in-depth description and analysis of monetary policy in Europe and the United States. Unusually for a volume in the field, it...

The Bank of England's tercentenary (July 1994), coming as it does with the future status of the Bank a subject of much discussion, is an apposite m...

The first twenty years of the European Central Bank (ECB) offer a clear demonstration of how a central bank can navigate macroeconomic insecurity a...

Since the start of the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, research on central banking has gained momentum due to unusual levels of central bank activ...

Pricing or benchmarking is a process of evaluating the performance of a financial company’s products and services or systems, against other busines...

Since the financial crisis of 2008-09, central bankers around the world have been forced to abandon conventional monetary policy tools in favour of...

Drawing on years of research, Gerald Steele delves into the diverse ideas of Henry Simons, a neglected economist whose work in the 1930s on monetar...

Since the financial crisis of 2008-09, central bankers around the world have been forced to abandon conventional monetary policy tools in favour of...

The second volume of the history of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) takes up the story of how the Bank has become an in...

This book explains why the European Union (EU) Member States – in response to the euro crisis – agreed to establish banking union, despite previous...

The book provides deep insight into theoretical and empirical evidence on information and communication technologies (ICT) as an important factor a...

Banking historiography often does not sufficiently take into account bankers’ deliberations of their decision making, but rather limits investigati...

This book provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of research outcomes on the equity home bias puzzle – that people overinvest in domestic s...

This book reveals the surprising role that credit, money created ex nihilo by financiers, played in raising the British government’s war loans betw...

This is the first comprehensive study of loans and debts in Central European countries in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. It outlines the ...

Combining balance sheet analysis with historical institutional analysis, this book traces the evolution of social sector financial balance sheets i...