Financial institutions and markets
Subtitle: the financial crisis--an early retrospective
By: edited by Robert R. Bliss and George G. Kaufman
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780230108356
Subjects: Financial institutions; Monetary policy; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; Financial crises; Banks and banking
Description: This book is a collection of research papers that contribute to the understanding of ongoing developments in financial institutions and markets both in the United States and globally.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Banking from riches to rags : ignoring the supervisory red flags and thwarting prompt corrective action / Gillian G.H. Garcia; title: Too much right can make a wrong : setting the stage for the US financial crisis / Richard J. Rosen; title: The UK banking crisis / Philip Molyneux; title: The sub-prime crisis, the credit crunch, and bank "failure" : an assessment of the UK authorities' response / Maximilian J.B. Hall; title: Financial crisis and regulation : the case of Spain / Santiago Carbó Valverde; title: Basel II has been a costly distraction on the road to minimizing the societal cost of bank failures and financial crises / George G. Kaufman; title: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac : creatures of regulatory privilege / David J. Reiss; title: Uncertainty and transparency of monetary policy / Giorgio Di Giorgio, Guido Traficante; title: Privatization and governance regulation in frontier emerging markets : the case of Romania / Gilles Chemla, Adrian Pop, Diana Pop; title: Universal access, cost recovery, and payment services / Sujit Chakravorti, Jeffery W. Gunther, Robert R. Moore; title: Estimating the volume of counterfeit US currency in circulation worldwide : data and extrapolation / Ruth Judson, Richard Porter.