This text highlights the achievements of commercial banks in New York and distinguishes them from their more flamboyant competitors. It is argued that in many ways the history of commercial banking in the state of New York constitutes the history of commercial banking for the entire nation.
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 ......
Combining theory, empirical evidence, institutional analysis, and policy evaluation, the second edition of Money, Interest, and Banking in Economic Development provides a comprehensive overview of the role of monetary and financial economics in developing countries. Maxwell Fry includes new chapters on finance in endogenous growth models, foreign ......
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 ......
Examines the evolution of US policy toward the World Bank and the impact of the United States on the institution's policies and operations. Beginning with the US role in the start-up of the Bank, Catherine Gwin describes the ebb and flow of the US support.
Describes and analyses the relationship between the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 to the present. Jacques J. Polak focuses primarily on this period from the 1970s when both the Fund and the Bank strove to meet developing countries' pressing needs for macroeconomic stabilization and ......
The U.S. banking system, its regulation and deregulation, and especially its deposit guarantees, continue to pose complex problems. The Crisis in American Banking offers six original perspectives on this continuing crisis, drawing from modern Austrian economics and from public choice theories that have seldom been applied to contemporary banking ......
The last decade has been both traumatic and revolutionary for the U.S. banking industry. In late 1990 and early 1991, the outlook for the banking industry and even the federal insurance fund that backs most of its deposits looked especially bleak.
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.
