Modernizing Financial Systems
Published on 11. October 1999
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-333-77758-9 (ISBN)
Description
The essays in this volume seek to provide an understanding of the key issues that should be kept in mind in reforming and modernizing financial systems. They also explore various policy proposals for the development of an institutional framework which will ensure the safety of the payment system, the competitive nature of financial services firms and the incentive for prudent risk taking and sound portfolio investments.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
tables, graphs, notes, index
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 143 mm
Weight
637 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-77758-9 (9780333777589)
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Content
Modernizing financial systems, D.B. Papadimitriou; issues in financial modernization, L.H. Meyer; dead weight and a distant shore; R.S. Carnell; the "New" science of credit risk management at financial institutions, J.L. Yellen; innovation in the supervision of financial institutions, J.L. Merger; policy in the United States - is there need for a change?, B. Shull; financial services modernization - principles based on US and foreign experience; J.L. Bothwell; the Canadian banking system, C. Freedman; commercial banking structure, and performance - an international comparison, J.R. Barth et al; preventing bank crises - taking the "State" out of state banks, G.G. Kaufman; bank insolvency - bad luck, bad policy, or bad banking; G. Caprio, Jr, et al.