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Book Fragile Finance

Download or read book Fragile Finance written by A. Nesvetailova and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-17 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fragile Finance examines financial crisis in the era of global credit. Drawing on the work of Hyman Minsky, the book discusses the global financial system over the past decade, suggesting that financial fragility stems from an explosive combination of financial innovation, over-borrowing, and progressive illiquidity of financial structures.

Book Global Financial Deregulation

Download or read book Global Financial Deregulation written by Itzhak Swary and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1992 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial institutions in developed countries have undergone a profound structural change in recent years. As a result, banking has become internationalized and competition has intensified within vast and complex markets for a range of financial services. This book reviews these changes.

Book U S  Bank Deregulation in Historical Perspective

Download or read book U S Bank Deregulation in Historical Perspective written by Charles W. Calomiris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how deregulation is transforming the size, structure, and geographic range of U.S. banks, the scope of banking services, and the nature of bank-customer relationships. Over the past two decades the characteristics that had made American banks different from other banks throughout the world--a fragmented geographical structure of the industry, which restricted the scale of banks and their ability to compete with one another, and strict limits on the kinds of products and services commercial banks could offer--virtually have been eliminated. Understanding the origins and persistence of the unique banking regulations that defined U.S. banking for over a century lends an important perspective on the economic and political causes and consequences of the current process of deregulation.

Book Debt  Financial Fragility  and Systemic Risk

Download or read book Debt Financial Fragility and Systemic Risk written by E. Philip Davis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable feature of the period since 1970 has been the patterns of rapid and turbulent change in financing behavior and financial structure in many advanced countries. This book explores, in theoretical and empirical terms, the nature of the relationships between the underlying phenomena--levels and changes in debt, vulnerability to default in the corporate and household sectors, and systematic risk in the financial sector. The book focuses on the generality of this phenomena--whether similar patterns are observable in certain countries, as well as in the international capital markets themselves. Emphasis is placed to the importance of the nature and evolution of financial structure to the genesis of instability. Given the international scope of the analysis, the work is germane to the study of the development of financial systems in all advanced countries, as well as the euromarkets.

Book The Changing Face of American Banking

Download or read book The Changing Face of American Banking written by Ranajoy Ray Chaudhuri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With almost 6,300 commercial banks, significantly more than in any other country, the world of US banking is unique, fascinating, and always in flux. Two principal pieces of legislation have shaped the banking structure in this country: The McFadden Act of 1927, which prohibited banks from branching into other states, and The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which separated commercial and investment banking activities. The repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999 was one of the main contributing factors behind the global financial crisis of 2008. This measure resulted in the passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, which once again prohibited commercial banks from making certain types of speculative investments. The Changing Face of American Banking analyzes the impact of both these acts - as well as that of their subsequent repeal - in depth, examining the real effects of government regulations on the US commercial banking sector. Ray Chaudhuri pinpoints the evolving nature of US commercial banks and banking regulations and explores their impact on the economy. Instead of just focusing on banks and regulations, this work considers the correlations and causality between banking performance and economic growth and productivity. It also brings the banking literature up to date with the 2008-2009 financial crisis and its aftermath, including the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 and its effect on American banking.

Book Bank Size and Systemic Risk

Download or read book Bank Size and Systemic Risk written by Mr.Luc Laeven and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proposed SDN documents the evolution of bank size and activities over the past 20 years. It discusses whether this evolution can be explained by economies of scale or “too big to fail” subsidies. The paper then presents evidence on the extent to which bank size and market-based activities contribute to systemic risk. The paper concludes with policy messages in the area of capital regulation and activity restrictions to reduce the systemic risk posed by large banks. The analysis of the paper complements earlier Fund work, including SDN 13/04 and the recent GFSR chapter on “too big to fail” subsidies, and its policy message is in line with this earlier work.

Book Does Financial Deregulation Work

Download or read book Does Financial Deregulation Work written by Bruce Coggins and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed critique of the reasoning behind the deregulation of banks, savings and loans, and other financial services. In challenging the conventional arguments, Coggins proposes an alternative set of assumptions drawn from post-Keynesian monetary theory and the historical and institutional approach to industrial organization. He concludes that stability in the financial systems is dependent upon a regulatory regime which focuses on limiting competition and encouraging productive over speculative investment. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Financial Fragility and Economic Performance in Developing Economies

Download or read book Financial Fragility and Economic Performance in Developing Economies written by Marco Rossi and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1999-05 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last two decades several developing economies have liberalized their domestic financial markets and eliminated current and capital controls and restrictions, though to various extent and at different speed. Starting with the work of McKinnon (1973) and Shaw (1973), and proceeding with that, among others, of King and Levine (1993), it is broadly accepted that financial liberalization, by fostering financial development, can increase economic performance.2 However, the banking crises of the 1980s and 1990s have pointed out the link between financial liberalization and financial fragility and the existence of a possible trade-off between the benefits of liberalization and the costs of increasing financial fragility, especially in developing markets.3 On these grounds, some have pointed out that, although there are clear benefits from moving away from a repressed financial system, it might not be optimal to pursue quick and extensive financial deregulation, especially at an early stage in the liberalization process when market institutions have not yet fully adjusted.4

Book Financial Deregulation

Download or read book Financial Deregulation written by Alexis Drach and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume is the first archival based historical investigation on the liberalization measures taken in various countries in the financial sector in the decades following the Bretton Woods system, from a comparative and a global perspective.

Book Fragile by Design

Download or read book Fragile by Design written by Charles W. Calomiris and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-23 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why stable banking systems are so rare Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries—but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone but have provided miniscule amounts of credit to business enterprises and households. Analyzing the political and banking history of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil through several centuries, Fragile by Design demonstrates that chronic banking crises and scarce credit are not accidents. Calomiris and Haber combine political history and economics to examine how coalitions of politicians, bankers, and other interest groups form, why they endure, and how they generate policies that determine who gets to be a banker, who has access to credit, and who pays for bank bailouts and rescues. Fragile by Design is a revealing exploration of the ways that politics inevitably intrudes into bank regulation.

Book Bank Deregulation   Monetary Order

Download or read book Bank Deregulation Monetary Order written by George Selgin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the 'invisible hand' handle money? George Selgin challenges the view that government regulation creates monetary order and stability, and instead shows it to be the main source of monetary crisis. The volume is divided into three sections: * Part I refutes conventional wisdom holding that any monetary system lacking government regulation is 'inherently unstable', and looks at the workings of market forces in an otherwise unregulated banking system. * Part II draws on both theory and historical experience to show how various kinds of government interference undermine the inherent efficiency, safety, and stability of a free monetary system. * Part III completes the argument by addressing the popular misconception that a monetary system is unsound unless it delivers a stable output price-level.

Book Handbook of Finance and Development

Download or read book Handbook of Finance and Development written by Thorsten Beck and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship between financial and real sector development. The different chapters, written by leading contributors in the field, survey research on the importance of financial development for economic growth, the causes and consequences of financial fragility, the historic development of financial systems in several major economies and regions of the world, and the regulatory and supervisory underpinnings of financial sector development.

Book Financial Fragility  Debt and Economic Reforms

Download or read book Financial Fragility Debt and Economic Reforms written by Sunanda Sen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume articulates a state of concern with the destabilising and the growth retarding effects of current world finance relations. Emphasis laid in this volume on finance is justified, not only in terms of its dominance over real activities in the world economy but also with its influence on the pace of economic reforms in the debt-ridden countries. A large number of essays in this volume deals with the recent pattern of capital flows in the world economy. The latter has been of a high priority in the agenda for research in economics in recent times, especially with tendencies for financial fragility in the major financial markets and the enforcing of the structural adjustment programmes in the developing countries as a part of loan conditionalities. The volume provides a rich analysis of contemporary international finance relations, with individual chapters contributed by reputed economists who have made significant contributions to the literature.

Book The Redistributive Effects of Financial Deregulation

Download or read book The Redistributive Effects of Financial Deregulation written by Mr.Anton Korinek and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial regulation is often framed as a question of economic efficiency. This paper, by contrast, puts the distributive implications of financial regulation center stage. We develop a model in which the financial sector benefits from risk-taking by earning greater expected returns. However, risktaking also increases the incidence of large losses that lead to credit crunches and impose negative externalities on the real economy. We describe a Pareto frontier along which different levels of risktaking map into different levels of welfare for the two parties. A regulator has to trade off efficiency in the financial sector, which is aided by deregulation, against efficiency in the real economy, which is aided by tighter regulation and a more stable supply of credit. We also show that financial innovation, asymmetric compensation schemes, concentration in the banking system, and bailout expectations enable or encourage greater risk-taking and allocate greater surplus to the financial sector at the expense of the rest of the economy.

Book Bank Concentration and Fragility

Download or read book Bank Concentration and Fragility written by Thorsten Beck and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Public policy debates and theoretical disputes motivate this paper's examination of (i) the relationship between bank concentration and banking system fragility and (ii) the mechanisms underlying this relationship. We find no support for the view that concentration increases the fragility of banks. Rather, banking system concentration is associated with a lower probability that the country suffers a systemic banking crisis. In terms of policies, we find that (i) regulations and institutions that facilitate competition in banking are associated with less not more -- banking system fragility and (ii) including these policy indicators does not change the results on concentration. This suggests that concentration is a proxy for something else besides the competitive environment. Also, we do not find that official capital regulations, reserve requirements, or official prudential regulations lower crises probabilities. Finally, we present suggestive evidence that concentrated banking systems tend to have larger, better-diversified banks, which may help account for the positive link between concentration and stability"--NBER website

Book Essays on Bank Regulation and Intervention

Download or read book Essays on Bank Regulation and Intervention written by Wen-ling Lu and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My second essay, "Do Bank Regulation and Supervision Improve Bank Performance and Reduce The Likelihood of Banking Crises?" focuses on the impact of bank regulation and supervision on various banking outcomes. The emphasis is on whether specific bank regulations and supervisory practices changed over time and whether they reduced the likelihood of a country experiencing a banking crisis. Given the role that banks have played in crises over time and in countries worldwide, this cross country analysis is important to determine whether specific regulatory and supervisory practices have helped reduce the likelihood f crises in countries, and thereby enhanced bank stability, performance and development.