Finance

Edited by Donghyun Park, Sang-Hyop Lee, Minsoo Lee

Developing Asia’s sustained rapid growth has improved general living standards and lifted hundreds of millions of Asians out of poverty within a generation. Yet the region now finds itself confronting rising inequality. Countries where inequality has worsened over the past 2 decades collectively…

Hardback – 2015-05-04
Routledge
Routledge-GRIPS Development Forum Studies

By Ahmed Naciri

Credit rating agencies play an essential role in the modern financial system and are relied on by creditors and investors on the market. In the recent financial crisis, their power and reliability were often questioned, yet a simple rating downgrade could threaten to bankrupt a whole country. This…

Hardback – 2015-01-22
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Corporate Governance

Edited by Ingmar Nolte, Mark Salmon, Chris Adcock

This book brings together the latest research in the areas of market microstructure and high-frequency finance along with new econometric methods to address critical practical issues in these areas of research. Thirteen chapters, each of which makes a valuable and significant contribution to the…

Hardback – 2014-11-27
Routledge

Edited by Bob Jessop, Brigitte Young, Christoph Scherrer

The recent financial crisis exposed both a naïve faith in mathematical models to manage risk and a crude culture of greed that embraces risk. This book explores cultures of finance in sites such as corporate governance, hedge funds, central banks, the City of London and Wall Street, and small and…

Hardback – 2014-10-14
Routledge
Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

By Jane Frecknall-Hughes

There are many practical textbooks explaining how taxation is applied and calculated but few ever deal thoroughly with the theory behind the practice. This book concisely addresses the principles and theories behind taxation in an accessible and internationally relevant way. It encourages readers…

Paperback – 2014-10-12
Routledge

By Angelo Corelli

Financial Risk Management is a topic of primary importance in financial markets and, more generally, in life. Risk can be seen as an opportunity if related to the concept of compensative return. It is therefore important to learn how to measure and control risk, in order to get exposure to as much…

Paperback – 2014-10-06
Routledge
Routledge Advanced Texts in Economics and Finance

By Tze Leung Lai, Raja P. Velu, Samuel Po-Shing Wong

Hardback – 2015-07-25
Chapman and Hall/CRC

Edited by Richard T. Harrison

An increase in the restrictions on the availability of funding for new and growing businesses in the aftermath of the global financial crisis has been accompanied by the emergence and growth of crowdfunding as an alternative method of raising capital. Crowdfunding contributes towards the…

Hardback – 2015-07-23
Routledge

Edited by Brent D. Hales, Norman Walzer, James R. Calvin

Increasingly, community leaders around the world face major natural and economic disasters that require them to find ways to rebuild both physical infrastructure and the local economy. Doing this effectively requires an understanding of how various parts of the community are interconnected, as well…

Hardback – 2015-07-01
Routledge
Community Development – Current Issues Series