The Future of Banking Regulation
The Basel II Accord
Published on 9. April 2008
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-1-4051-5826-8 (ISBN)
Description
This up-to-date book offers answers to the mounting questions about the future of international banking regulation. * The Basel II Accord is a new system designed to determine how much capital internationally active banks are required by supervisors to hold against their portfolio of risky assets * This volume examines the numerous competitive and strategic questions raised by the Accord, and focuses on the potential outcomes in the financial industry after its enactment * Brings together the most current thinking on the topic by both leading academic authorities and top-level representatives from the banking and regulatory community, including the prior and current Chairmen of the Basel Committee
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-5826-8 (9781405158268)
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Persons
Harald Benink is Professor of Finance at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam,The Netherlands. He is also a Senior Research Associate to the Financial Markets Group (FMG) of the London School of Economics (LSE). Jon Danielsson is Reader in Finance at LSE. Charles Goodhart has been the Norman Sosnow Professor of Banking and Finance at LSE since 1985 until his retirement in 2002. He is the Director of the Regulation and Financial Stability Research Programme at FMG/LSE.
Content
1. Howard Davies (Director, London School of Economics). 2. Jaime Caruana (Governor, Bank of Spain & Chairman, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision). 3. Richard Herring (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania). 4. Harald Benink (RSM Erasmus University & FMG/LSE) and George Benston (Goizueta School of Business, Emory Unversity). 5. Jon Danielsson (FMG/LSE) and Asgeir Jonsson (University of Iceland). 6. George Kaufman (Loyola University of Chicago). 7. Clas Wihlborg (Copenhagen Business School). 8. Tom de Swaan (CFO, ABN AMRO Bank). 9. Karel Lannoo (Centre for European Policy Studies). 10. Hung Tran (International Monetary Fund). 11. Mark Tilden (LECG Consultants)