Research Catalog

Title

Political institutions and financial development / edited by Stephen Haber, Douglass C. North, and Barry R. Weingast.

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Haber, Stephen H., 1957-
• North, Douglass C. (Douglass Cecil)
• Weingast, Barry R.

Description

ix, 304 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Social science history

Uniform Title

Social science history.

Subject

• Finance > Political aspects
• Finance > Government policy
• Monetary policy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Political Institutions and Financial Development / Stephen Haber, Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast -- 2. Political Institutions and Financial Development: Evidence from the Political Economy of Bank Regulation in Mexico and the United States / Stephen Haber -- 3. The Political Economy of Early U.S. Financial Development / Richard Sylla -- 4. Answering Mary Shirley's Question, or: What Can the World Bank Learn from American History? / John Joseph Wallis -- 5. Beyond Legal Origin and Checks and Balances: Political Credibility, Citizen Information, and Financial Sector Development / Philip Keefer -- 6. The Microeconomic Effects of Different Approaches to Bank Supervision / James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio and Ross Levine -- 7. Political Drivers of Diverging Corporate Governance Patterns / Peter Gourevitch and James Shinn -- 8. Credible Commitment and Sovereign Default Risk: Two Bond Markets and Imperial Brazil / William R. Summerhill -- 9. Legal Origin vs. the Politics of Creditor Rights: Bond Markets in Brazil, 1850-2002 / Aldo Musacchio -- 10. Conclusion: Economics, Political Institutions, and Financial Markets / Douglass C. North and Mary M. Shirley.

ISBN

• 9780804756921 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0804756929 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780804756938 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0804756937 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2007029138
• 40014995216

OCLC

• 156891963
• ocn156891963
• SCSB-9052081

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries