International Corporate Finance

A new title from Routledge, this is a four-volume collection of cutting-edge and foundational research.

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Traditionally, finance officers in large commercial enterprises have concentrated on cost control, budgeting, and internal auditing. But, in a globalized environment, for multinational corporations, there has opened up a bewildering vista of new finance opportunities, and challenges.

These new possibilities and risks have only been complicated by the events of 2007 and beyond, when the global financial system endured extreme turbulence and banks suffered stomach-churning losses, necessitating unbelievable bailouts by national governments. (And the ongoing eurozone crisis has highlighted still further the often dysfunctional interactions between government regulators, banks, and capital markets.) Consequently, the growing scholarly and practical interest in the international aspects of corporate finance has in recent years thriven, particularly in relation to emerging markets.

In four volumes, this new collection from Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Finance series meets the need for an authoritative reference work to allow researchers and students to make sense of a vast and complex literature, and the continuing efflorescence in research output. Users will now be able easily and rapidly to locate the best and most influential scholarship, including some pieces newly translated into English, together with work that is otherwise often inaccessible or scattered throughout a variety of specialist journals and books. With material gathered into one easy-to-use set, researchers and students can spend more of their time with the key journal articles, book chapters, and other pieces, rather than on time-consuming (and sometimes fruitless) archival searches.

The collection covers—but is not limited to—topics such as: general corporate principles in relation to international financing techniques; the role of institutions, laws, and regulations in explaining differences in financial development across countries; corporate governance; the political economy of finance; theoretical and critical approaches to the relevant legal and policy issues; and the theory and practice of international financial regulation.

International Corporate Finance is fully indexed and includes a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by users as a vital one-stop research resource.