This vital new Handbook is an authoritative volume presenting key issues in finance that have been widely discussed in the financial markets but have been neglected in textbooks and the usual compilations of conventional academic wisdom. A wide range of topics including the recent economic crisis, capital controls, the Franc zone, quantitative easing and securitisation, as well as the key controversies associated with them, are explored and explained in depth by well-known authorities in finance and economics. Designed to complement and expand upon standard textbooks as well as the specialist critical literature on particular topics in finance, this informative Handbook will prove invaluable to academics, researchers and students focusing on economics, finance and heterodox economics.
Contents: Introduction 1. Asian Monetary Union Wei Song 2. Bad Banks David G. Mayes 3. Bank Regulation Geoffrey Wood 4. Capital Controls Giovanni Cozzi 5. Capital Market Inflation Henryk Braun 6. Central Banks Tim Congdon 7. Central Bank Policy Juan Pablo Painceira 8. Commodity Markets Luigi Ventimiglia 9. Co-operative Banking Panu Kalmi 10. Credit Cycles Dirk Bezemer 11. Emerging Markets Kobil Ruziev 12. Microfinance Judith Tyson 13. The Exchange Rate Annina Kaltenbrunner 14. Financial Crises Martin H. Wolfon 15. Financial Fragility Eric Tymoigne 16. Financial Keynesianism Riccardo Bellofiore 17. Financial Markets In Developing Countries Noemi Levy Orlik 18. Financialization Engelbert Stockhammer 19. The Flow of Funds Jo Michell 20. Globalisation Jonathon Perraton 21. Hedge Funds Photis Lysandrou 22. The Iceland Crisis Robert H. Wade and Silla Sigurgeirsdottir 23. Inflation Targeting Philip Arestis 24. International Banking Trevor Evans 25. International Finance Jeff Powell 26. Islamic Banking Ewa Karwowski 27. John Maynard Keynes Michael S. Lawlor 28. Limited Liability Stephanie Blankenburg 29. Liquidity Anastasia Nesvetailova 30. Karl Marx Andrew Trigg 31. The Methodology Of Finance Sheila C. Dow 32. Hyman P. Minsky Jan Kregel 33. Money In Finance L. Wrandall Wray 34. Money Manager Capitalism Charles J. Whalen 35. Option Pricing Models Paulo L. dos Santos 36. Overcapitalisation Jan Toporowski 37. Private Equity Funds Jan Toporowski 38. Quantitative Easing Shujoya Venugopalan 39. Risk Tracy Mott 40. Securitisation Sanjay Krishnan 41. Tax Havens Ronen Palan 42. Transnational Companies and Finance Grazia Ietto-Gillies 43. Thorstein Veblen Charles G. Leathers and J. Patrick Raines
