Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

This book features contributions from leading researchers into the effect of the recent financial crisis on lending in the banking sector. They exp...

The recent financial crisis has generated many structural changes within the economy. Many issues are ongoing, and the question of how to recover f...

Puerto Rico is experiencing its deepest economic crisis since the first half of the twentieth century. The unique political and economic relationsh...

A study of the first great global stock market crash and and its impact on the peripheries of the British state In late September 1720 the South S...

This collection explores the current economic and political crisis in Greece and more widely in Europe. Greece is used to illustrate and exemplify ...

Friedman and McNeill draw on recent research in evolutionary game theory and behavioral economics to explore the relationship between our moral cod...

During the ongoing global financial crisis, a lack of moral and ethical leadership in society has been exposed. The Most Reverend Rowan Williams, A...

Analysis of the current financial/economic crisis from the Director of the Banking Sector at the FSA (Financial Services Authority). New edition up...

This revised edition offers the most up-to-date advice for investors who wish to defend themselves, or even make a profit from, the blighted polici...

The latest scholarly developments in research on banking, financial markets, and the recent financial crisis. This selection of papers were present...

Euro Crash is a unique analysis of the European Monetary Union, arguing that it was not sub-optimal currency areas or profligate government spendin...

Understanding the formation of bubbles and the contagion mechanisms afflicting financial markets is a must as extreme volatility events leave no ma...

To what extent is South Africa affected by G8 economies and BRIC growth shocks? This book identifies channels that amplify these shock effects, the...

The respective legal frameworks that control central banks are shaped by whether they are market oriented or government controlled. However such st...

Both quantitative and qualitative analysis is used to review China's stock market in a book containing the latest research on China's IPO market, t...

This book presents an in-depth appreciation of key topics related to the behaviour of financial institutions in the crisis and stresses areas of ma...

Provides a comprehensive overview of a broad range of uses of the flow of funds within the central bank community as well as in the academic field,...

Researchers, policymakers and commentators have long debated the patterns through which adverse shocks in a few markets may quickly spread to a ran...

A vivid portrait of an exceptional woman and a lively history of the economic and financial crises that helped make the treasury secretary and form...

This book provides an introduction to the relationship between economics and ethics, explaining why ethics enters economics, how ethics affects ind...

This book analyses and confronts the functioning of guarantee systems for SMEs in countries where these schemes had an important development. The b...

An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over todays world from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling...

Two Crises, Different Outcomes examines East Asian policy reactions to the two major crises of the last fifteen years: the global financial crisis ...

Nowhere in Europe are people more likely to enjoy a regular flutter in stocks and shares than in Britain. Whether we consider the millions of onlin...