Contemporary Topics In Finance: A Collection Of Literature Surveys

The literature surveys presented in this edited volume provide readers with up-to-date reviews on eleven contemporary topics in finance.

• Topics include unconventional monetary policy, implicit bank guarantees, and financial fraud - all linked to the exceptional event of the Global Financial Crisis
• Explores how recent studies on inflation risk premia and finance and productivity have benefitted from new empirical methods and the availability of relevant data
• Demonstrates how angel investing, venture capital, relationship lending and microfinance have benefitted from increased research as they have become more seasoned
• Investigates crowdfunding and crypto-currencies which have both arisen from recent technological developments

Iris Claus is Macroeconomic Advisor at the International Monetary Fund's Pacific Financial Technical Assistance Centre in Fiji. She previously held policy and research positions at the Asian Development Bank, the New Zealand Inland Revenue, the New Zealand Treasury, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, and the Bank of Canada. Iris is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Surveys and Asian Economic Papers, a Senior Fellow at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and an affiliate of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA). Her current research interests are in unconventional monetary policy, taxation, financial intermediation, open economy macroeconomics and general equilibrium modeling.

Leo Krippner is Senior Advisor in the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's Economics Department. He previously worked in the Reserve Bank's Financial Markets Department, the New Zealand Treasury, and in private sector funds management at AMP Capital Investors and AXA Funds Management. Leo is a Senior Fellow at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, an affiliate of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), and a member of the Education Trust of the New Zealand Association of Economists (NZAE). He is the recipient of the 2017 Central Banking Award in Economics and the 2003 A R Bergstrom Prize in Econometrics. His current research interests are in term structure modelling, macro-finance, and econometric modeling.