Economic & Financial Crises & Disasters

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...

The financial crisis of 2008 is probably the single most important economic event in post-war history. Macroprudential policy is the response to th...

By exploring how financial, legal and wider socio-economic systems can accelerate or decelerate the harmonization in financial markets, this book c...

By looking at the three most recent economic crises, the S&L crisis, the dot-com bubble, and the recent subprime mortgage disaster, the author ...

Financial crisis, recession and worsening inequality have long been blamed on a surplus of capital. But the actions that led the latest boom and bu...

State guarantees commonly function as financial panacea, allowing states to consolidate banking systems and create intergovernmental funds. Rules s...

Since the 2007 2008 global financial crisis, there has been much debate about the role of financial regulation and the causes of financial instabil...

The European Periphery Debt Crisis (EPDC) has its roots in the structural characteristics of the individual economies affected. This book offers a ...

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...

Restructuring the balance sheets of Western governments, banks and households is an important issue in the recovery after the recent crisis. Choraf...

This collection presents a political sociology of crisis in Europe. Focusing on state and society transformations in the context of the 2008 financ...

Based on the crisis experience, the book offers an overview of lessons for macrofinancial analysis and financial stability. It illustrates the inte...

An indepth look at the origins and development of the current financial crisis, from an economist and Washington insider. Jarsulic explains how a w...

In an original, and highly interdisciplinary, mixed method approach, Green and Janmaat identify four major traditions of social cohesion in develop...

Tillmann C. Lauk discusses law-making at the European level and argues that problems with EU legislation, banking regulation and currency debasemen...

Tillmann C. Lauk discusses law-making at the European level and argues that problems with EU legislation, banking regulation and currency debasemen...

This book analyses how the financial system adjusts to institutional changes such as new technology, political tendencies, cultural differences, ne...

Banks, Bankers, and Bankruptcies Under Crisis uses case studies of failed banks, banks that would have failed without taxpayer intervention, and in...

Spain is at the epicentre of a crisis that threatens the future of the Eurozone. This book explains the deep historical and structural roots of the...

With the effects of the latest financial crisis still unfolding, this is a timely guide to the politics of international financial reform comparing...

In an original, and highly interdisciplinary, mixed method approach, Green and Janmaat identify four major traditions of social cohesion in develop...

Understanding the American stock market boom and bust of the 1920s is vital for formulating policies to combat the potentially deleterious effects ...

This timely reader of seminal papers published by Palgrave on behalf of Comparative Economic Studies, examines how and why foreign banks enter emer...

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

Since the mid-20th century, organizational theorists have increasingly distanced themselves from the study of core societal power centers and impor...