Competition and Finance
A Reinterpretation of Financial and Monetary Economics
Published on 4. September 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 572 pages
978-0-333-61373-3 (ISBN)
Description
Competition and Finance offers a new, unified treatment of the fields of financial and monetary economics. The first part integrates recent developments in agency theory and information economics into a unified financial theory of the firm. A review of recent developments in the economics of banking and then monetary economics leads to a conclusion assessing present-day systems of central banking and proposing financial and monetary reform.
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Edition
1996 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
XII, 572 p.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
812 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-61373-3 (9780333613733)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-24856-8
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Book
09/1996
Palgrave Macmillan
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Content
Preface - Introduction - Bilateral Financial Contracts - Capital Structure and Corporate Financial Policy - Why Financial Intermediaries Exist - Broker Intermediaries - Mutual-Fund Intermediaries - Bank Intermediaries - The Structure of the Banking Industry - Recent Models of Banking Instability - Media of Exchange and Payment Systems - The Economics of the Unit of Account - The Mechanics of Convertibility - 'Real Bills' Systems - Monometallic, Bimetallic and Related Monetary Standards - Commodity-Basket Monetary Standards - The Construction of the Price Index - 'Tabular Standards' - Price-Level Optimality - Productivity Growth and the Price Level - Financial and Monetary Reform - References - Index