The central role of the housing market in the recent recession raised a series of questions about similar episodes throughout economic history. Were the underlying causes of housing and mortgage crises the same in earlier episodes? Has the onset and spread of crises changed over time? How have...

Until about twenty years ago, the consensus view on the cause of financial-system distress was fairly simple: a run on one bank could easily turn to a panic involving runs on all banks, destroying some and disrupting the financial system. Since then, however, a series of events—such as...

Eric Barthalon applies the neglected theory of psychological time and memory decay of Nobel Prize-winning economist Maurice Allais (1911-2010) to model investors' psychology in the present context of recurrent financial crises. Shaped by the behavior of the demand for money during episodes of...

Part I. Blockchain Economics and Financial Market Innovation -- Corporate Finance in the New Business Ecosystem in Digital Age -- The Global Financial System's New Tool: Digital Money -- Redesigning Current Banknotes with Blockchain Infrastructure: A Model Proposal -- Initial Coin Offerings:...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Finance, Institutions, and Industrial Change: Spatial Perspectives -- 2 Financial Markets and Industrial Change -- 3 Sovereign Risk Analysis: A Qualitative Approach -- 4 Corporate Raiders: The Case...