"A sufficient amount of capital is vital for banking and economic stability. The book traces the role and relevance of capital in the United States, the United Kingdom and Switzerland since the 19th century. It is of interest for policymakers, academics and everyone interested in banking history and regulation"--
"A sufficient amount of capital is vital for banking and economic stability. The book traces the role and relevance of capital in the United States, the United Kingdom and Switzerland since the 19th century. It is of interest for policymakers, academics and everyone interested in banking history and regulation"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Simon Amrein is a Lecturer and Head of the MSc in Banking and Finance programme at the Lucerne School of Business. He studied finance, economic history, and history at the Lucerne School of Business, the London School of Economics and Political Science and the European University Institute in Florence.
Inhaltsangabe
Part I. Introduction: 1. The scope of this book 2. The role and relevance of capital in banking 3. Chapter outline Part II. Capital Ratios in the Long Run: 1. Capital ratios since 1840 2. The problems of constructing long-run time series 3. Structural changes in balance sheets 4. Hidden reserves 5. Extended Shareholder Liabilities Part III. The 19th Century: How Ideas Shape Capital Structures: 1. Early banking literature: shared roots, different trajectories 2. England: balancing the interests of shareholders and depositors 3. Switzerland: transparency in the absence of regulation 4. United States: capital requirements from the very beginning 5. Concluding remarks Part IV. Two World Wars: Overturning Conventions: 1. Wartime dynamics of balance sheets 2. Assets side: financing wars 3. Liabilities side: deposits and capital issuances 4. British banking and capital: the absence of a topic 5. Amalgamations movement in England 6. During and after the second world war: banking without capital 7. Switzerland: the demise of guidelines - and the rise of rules 8. After the first world war: back to normal 9. The importance of formal capital requirements 10. The United States: the birth of risk-weighted assets 11. From deposits to assets: a new supervisory focus 12. Categorizing assets according to risk 13. Concluding remarks Part V. How Crises Drive Regulation: 1. The international environment and regulatory convergence 2. From informal to formal: the regulation and supervision of banking and capital in the United Kingdom 3. The irrelevance of capital: 1945 to 1973 4. The relevance of capital: the secondary banking crisis 5. The banking acts of 1979 and 1987 6. Regulation in Switzerland - and how it was influenced 7. Banking legislation in the 1930s 8. The evolution of capital regulation: 1934-1991 9. The influence of banks on the evolution of banking regulation 10. The United States: finding the right weight 11. Changes in capital adequacy standards in the 1970s 12. The Latin American debt crisis as a driver of capital standards 13. Concluding remarks Part VI. Epilogue: 1. Basel capital requirements and the characteristics of leverage before the 2007/2008 financial crisis 2. The limits of capital Bibliography.
Part I. Introduction: 1. The scope of this book 2. The role and relevance of capital in banking 3. Chapter outline Part II. Capital Ratios in the Long Run: 1. Capital ratios since 1840 2. The problems of constructing long-run time series 3. Structural changes in balance sheets 4. Hidden reserves 5. Extended Shareholder Liabilities Part III. The 19th Century: How Ideas Shape Capital Structures: 1. Early banking literature: shared roots, different trajectories 2. England: balancing the interests of shareholders and depositors 3. Switzerland: transparency in the absence of regulation 4. United States: capital requirements from the very beginning 5. Concluding remarks Part IV. Two World Wars: Overturning Conventions: 1. Wartime dynamics of balance sheets 2. Assets side: financing wars 3. Liabilities side: deposits and capital issuances 4. British banking and capital: the absence of a topic 5. Amalgamations movement in England 6. During and after the second world war: banking without capital 7. Switzerland: the demise of guidelines - and the rise of rules 8. After the first world war: back to normal 9. The importance of formal capital requirements 10. The United States: the birth of risk-weighted assets 11. From deposits to assets: a new supervisory focus 12. Categorizing assets according to risk 13. Concluding remarks Part V. How Crises Drive Regulation: 1. The international environment and regulatory convergence 2. From informal to formal: the regulation and supervision of banking and capital in the United Kingdom 3. The irrelevance of capital: 1945 to 1973 4. The relevance of capital: the secondary banking crisis 5. The banking acts of 1979 and 1987 6. Regulation in Switzerland - and how it was influenced 7. Banking legislation in the 1930s 8. The evolution of capital regulation: 1934-1991 9. The influence of banks on the evolution of banking regulation 10. The United States: finding the right weight 11. Changes in capital adequacy standards in the 1970s 12. The Latin American debt crisis as a driver of capital standards 13. Concluding remarks Part VI. Epilogue: 1. Basel capital requirements and the characteristics of leverage before the 2007/2008 financial crisis 2. The limits of capital Bibliography.
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