In recent years, the major industrialized nations have developed cooperative procedures for supervising banks, harmonized their standards for bank capital requirements, and initiated cooperative understanding about securities market supervision. This book assesses what further coordination and harmonization in financial regulation will be required ......
In recent years, the major industrialized nations have developed cooperative procedures for supervising banks, harmonized their standards for bank capital requirements, and initiated cooperative understanding about securities market supervision. This book assesses what further coordination and harmonization in financial regulation will be required ......
Latin America's Banks and Capital Markets After Liberalization
In this first book-length analysis of the Latin American financial sector, Barbara Stallings and Rogerio Studart examine the dramatic changes resulting from financial liberalization in the region.
An extensive discussion on the digital revolution in banking - by leading independent commentator Chris Skinner, voted Top 10 Banking Blogger by Financial Brand 2012 and 2013
Argues that open competition among private firms could provide a monetary system better than that currently provided by state monopolized central banks, indicating how monetary uncertainty is brought on by cycles of inflation and disinflation inherent in the system.
Autonomy and Accountability in Three Federal Agencies
Eager to make government work better, cost less, and be more accountable, reformers are embracing a common prescription: consolidate and downsize government agencies to eliminate duplication and overlap. But is this prescription really a panacea for what ails government, or is the solution for better government performance more complex? This book ......
Report from an American Bar Association/Brookings Symposium
Juries are the one place where common citizens play an important part in the governmental process. But both the jury system and the American legal system itself have been under attack.
The global financial crisis is largely behind us, but the challenges it poses to the future stability of the world's economic system affects everyone from American families to Main Street businesses to Wall Street financial powerhouses. This book deals with this topic.
