Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

Using highly-readable, non-technical language, the authors, both professional economists, describe all the major global economic forces at work in ...

On June 28th 2012, the small island of Cyprus became the fifth government to request an economic bail-out from the Eurozone after losing access to ...

'Overall, the book is highly technical, including full mathematical proofs of the results stated. Potential readers are post-graduate students or r...

Since 2008 many European states have experienced significant challenges in adapting to austerity, and political actors within these states have mad...

Economic and financial crises have become perennial features of today’s global economy. Macroeconomic theories of crisis, including the global cris...

Southern Europe has been hit hard by the global economic crisis and, as such, their welfare states have come under acute strain. Unmet need has sha...

The contributions to this edited collection, first published in 1983, are based on two underlying themes. The first examines the major recession th...

This book traces the impact of the global financial crisis on East Asia, and the way that key regional states responded to the crisis. It considers...

Economic and financial crises have become perennial features of today’s global economy. Macroeconomic theories of crisis, including the global cris...

The 25 years leading up to the international financial crisis have been depicted as ‘capitalism unleashed’, containing deregulation, privatisation,...

Following the outbreak of the international financial crisis, Southern Europe became an epicentre of economic instability and international concern...

This book examines the recent evolution of the Mediterranean Welfare regime, and how the economic crisis may be contributing to redefine its basic ...

The Cold War was fought between “state socialism” and “the free market.” That fluctuating relationship between public power and private money con...

Financial Systems at the Crossroads: Lessons for China is written by leading financial experts to study the causes of financial disasters internati...

Sixteen countries across the world — including the United States and many European nations — have fallen into economic crises since the late 1990s....

Financial Systems at the Crossroads: Lessons for China is written by leading financial experts to study the causes of financial disasters internati...

Debt is the hidden engine driving undocumented migration to the United States. So argues David Stoll in this powerful chronicle of migrants, moneyl...

The contributions to this edited collection, first published in 1983, are based on two underlying themes. The first examines the major recession th...

This edited volume presents the most recent achievements in risk measurement and management, as well as regulation of the financial industry, with ...

This book addresses the viability of the EU economic and social model within and after the global economic crisis. It identifies four key issues wh...

The 2008 financial crisis has severely shaken confidence in liberal economic theory and policy. However, the sharply divergent experiences of the s...

One striking weaknesses of our financial architecture, which helped bring on and perhaps deepen the Panic of 2008, is an inadequate appreciation of...

Workers experience an increasingly uncertain future and many have been forced to search for jobs in a highly competitive market. In this volume, we...

Some analysts looked at the 1997/98 East Asian crisis not as one crisis but as a combination of crises, beginning with a crisis of confidence and e...

This book examines the need for greater East Asian cooperation and the challenges to this grand endeavor. With differing national outlooks, how can...

The world economy fell into a global financial crisis in 2008/9 and is still jittered by its aftershocks. Like other financial crises happened in t...

The global credit crisis of 2008-2009 was the most serious shock to the world economy in fully 80 years. It was for the world as a whole what the A...

This book traces the impact of the global financial crisis on East Asia, and the way that key regional states responded to the crisis. It considers...

This book is an annual effort by the economists from the Nanyang Technological University to provide analysis, interpretations and insights on cont...

The City has long been the main generator of London's wealth and, needless to say, the impact of the Economic Crisis in the recent years on the Cit...

In this remarkable and provocative book, Yanis Varoufakis explodes the myth that financialisation, ineffectual regulation of banks, greed and globa...

Four years have passed since the onset of the 2008 global crisis, and although some believe that there may be a second down draft soon, attention h...

The Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 has highlighted the resilience of the financial markets and broader economies from the developing world. T...

The recent financial crisis has made it paramount for the financial services industry to find new perspectives to look at their industry and, most ...

Volume 14 of "Advances in Financial Economics" presents recent research on corporate governance from a number of countries across the world, includ...

This volume provides an integrated compilation of selected major articles published by the author in several fields of international finance. These...

This book is a collection of invited and selected papers from the Singapore Economic Policy Forum 2009 around a central theme, Challenges Facing Si...

Every banking crisis, whatever its particular circumstances, has two features in common with every previous one. Each has been preceded by a period...

Written by one of the foremost experts on the business cycle, this is a compelling and engaging explanation of how and why the economic downturn of...

Since the summer of 2007, credit markets in almost all industrial countries have been in substantial turmoil and this has become the focus of inten...

This book is an annual effort by the economists at the Nanyang Technological University to provide analysis, interpretations and insights of contem...

Written by one of the foremost experts on the business cycle, this is a compelling and engaging explanation of how and why the economic downturn of...

In the midst of one of the most serious financial upheavals since the Great Depression, George Soros, the legendary financier and philanthropist, w...

From the vantage point of the key powers in global finance including the United States, the European Union, Japan, and China, this highly accessibl...

From the vantage point of the key powers in global finance including the United States, the European Union, Japan, and China, this highly accessibl...