Macroeconomics

Iceland became one of the symbols of the global financial crisis.

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

Building on the impressive first edition, this revised and updated book examines a wide range of highly topical issues.

Chinese banks have been making headlines recently, but what lies beneath?

The Global Financial Crisis is acknowledged to be the most severe economic downturn since the 1930s, and one that is unique in its underlying causes, its scope, and its wider social, political and economic implications.

This topical volume analyzes the impact of the 2008 financial crisis.

Economic Forecasting provides a comprehensive overview of macroeconomic forecasting.

This book on the different aspects of international economic policy covers financial crises, reserve accumulation, capital flows and currency wars as well as issues relating to foreign direct investment and developments in China and India.

This book focuses on the concepts of social capital, corporate social responsibility, and economic development in relation to economic theory of institutions and behavioural economics.

This book explores implications of the modern view of central banks rising from the proposition that words have no meaning beyond their use in a particular context and setting.

Despite considerable progress on political and economic convergence over the last decade, financial structures of individual countries within the EU remain diverse.

This is the first comprehensive book on the politics and economics of financial sector consolidation in an emerging market in West Africa.

International trade is the core foundation of globalisation.

The global financial and economic crisis has brought about many effects that are still difficult to interpret univocally.

This book presents a clear exposition of what constitutes asymmetry in economics.

Hong Kong's laissez-faire tradition has crippled attempts to transform it into a more knowledge-intensive economy and this is a lesson with wide applicability.

The 2008 financial crisis poses three fundamental questions for economists and policy makers; understanding the origins of the crisis, understanding the consequences of this crisis for the world economy, and finally understanding why the 2008 financial crisis is not as serious as the 1929 crisis.

Public sector organizations are about to enter one of the most challenging environments they have ever had to face as they bear much of the cost of the credit crunch.

The book describes the birth and growth of financial institutions and stock exchanges in Scandinavia and Finland from 1656 to 2010, including their banking crises and the history of banking regulation.

The story of the recent global economic crisis is told in the words of the main players in the drama.

This book examines new issues in financial markets and institutions raised by the global economic crisis that began in 2007.

This book proposes new methods to build optimal portfolios and to analyze market liquidity and volatility under market microstructure effects, as well as new financial risk measures using parametric and non-parametric techniques.

This book explains what is behind the wave of increasingly frequent and severe financial crises since the 1980s.

We have seen many empires come and go.

This book sheds light on the impact of the Great Recession from the perspective of both developing and developed countries.

The historical response to bank crises has always been more regulation.

The book presents arguments against the taxpayers'-funded bailing out of failed financial institutions, and puts forward suggestions to circumvent the TBTF problem, including some preventive measures.

This book explores the causes and effects of the rise of neoliberalism in Eastern Europe in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

This book provides a deep insight into the market changes and policy challenges that transition economies have undergone in the last twenty years.

This collection of conference papers presents a contemporary insight into key trends impacting on the global financial sector post crisis and highlights new policy and research areas affecting banks and other financial institutions.

Corporate social responsibility is examined in this book as multi-stakeholder approach to corporate governance.

The rise of the Arab world and China are part of the same story, once trading partners via the Silk Road.

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) provide a public good; if MFIs create and deepen markets where none existed before, there may be a case for public support.

As the real economy is increasingly digitalized, banking lags behind.

This book analyzes the post-subprime crisis world from the global, Asian and Chinese perspectives.

During the ongoing global financial crisis, a lack of moral and ethical leadership in society has been exposed.

The increasing interdependence of the world economy has huge implications for global finance in the twenty-first century.

This book presents a thorough evaluation of Michal Kalecki's theory of the capitalist economy.

This book provides a systematic account of financial crisis in the developing world by exploring how Minsky's theory may be extended to countries at early stages of financial development, going beyond the parameters of the established 'emerging market crisis' literature.

This book aims to showcase and advance recent debates over the extent to which undergraduate macroeconomics teaching models adequately reflect the latest developments in the field.

The recent crisis has redrawn attention to financial globalization.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of neo-liberal and progressive economic reforms and policies implemented in Chile since the Pinochet dictatorship.

Systemic financial crises have become a common feature of the global financial landscape.

This book modifies the existing economic theory of health analysis by integrating the issues and principles of moral philosophy in an extended framework.

This study examines the manner in which Gunnar Myrdal's intellectual style left an impact on the shaping of Sweden's welfare state, on race relations in the United States, on post-World War Two economic cooperation in Europe, and on the analysis of Third World economic development.

The Group of Seven Industrialized Countries, G7 developed a new doctrine of international supervision and regulation of financial markets.

This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the development of Keynes's economic ideas in the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money , using archival material, the historical record of the economics of Keynes's time and place and the scholarship available on Keynes's biography and philosophy.

This book discusses ways to improve macroeconomic policy in the context of the various macroeconomic problems of the past two decades, with the chapters having been written at various times over that period.

Can the European Economic and Monetary Union survive as an institution providing the highest degree of monetary integration?

Given the propensity of the world financial system to crisis, this book explores the radical alternative put forward by Islamic (and Western) theories of non-interest banking.