Reforming Financial Systems

Herausgeber: Caprio, Jr. Gerard; Vittas, Dimitri

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume summarizes the key lessons of financial history for emerging market and developing economies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9780521581158
• ISBN-10: 052158115X
• Artikelnr.: 22360030

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; 1. Financial history: lessons of the past for
reformers of the present Gerard Caprio Jr. and Dimitri Vittas; 2. The
evolution of central banking Forrest Capie; 3. Free banking: the Scottish
experience as a model for emerging economies Randall S. Kroszner; 4.
Regulation and bank stability: Canada and the United States, 1870-1980
Michael Bordo; 5. Deposit insurance Eugene White; 6. Contingent liability
in banking: useful policy for developing countries? Anthony Saunders and
Berry Wilson; 7. Universal banking and the financing of industrial
development Charles W. Calomiris; 8. Before main banks: a selective
historical overview of Japan's prewar financial system Frank Packer; 9.
Thrift deposit institutions in Europe and the United States Dimitri Vittas;
10. The development of industrial pensions in the United States during the
twentieth century Samuel H. Williamson; 11. The rise of securities markets:
what can government do? Richard Sylla; Index.