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