Research Catalog

Title

Financial institutions and markets : current issues in financial markets / edited by Robert R. Bliss and George G. Kaufman.

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bliss, Robert R.
• Kaufman, George G.

Description

xiv, 210 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"This edited collection contains papers that contribute to the understanding of ongoing developments in financial institutions and markets both in the United States and globally. Including chapters on industrial loan companies, transparency, inflation, and insider trading, this volume addresses and analyzes the key issues currently affecting those markets."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Financial institutions > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1. When a Bank Is Not a Bank: The Case of Industrial Loan Companies / Christian Johnson and George G. Kaufman -- 2. Banking and Commerce: What Difference Did Wal-Mart Make? / Christine E. Blair -- 3. Managing Financial Failure in an Evolving Economic and Financial Environment / Eva H. G. Hupkes -- 4. The Political Economy of Burden Sharing and Prompt Corrective Action / Gillian G. H. Garcia -- 5. Uncertainty, Transparency, and Future Monetary Policy / Marc D. Hayford and A. G. Malliaris -- 6. The Trimmed Mean PCE Inflation Rate: A Better Measure of Core Inflation / Harvey Rosenblum and Nicole Y. Cote -- 7. Payday Lending and Payments Services: A Historical and Modern Analysis / Robert DeYoung and Ronnie J. Phillips -- 8. Insider Trading and Large Chapter 11 Bankruptcies: 1995-2006 / Tareque Nasser and Benton E. Gup.

ISBN

• 0230609066
• 9780230609068

LCCN

• 2008013986
• 40016183890

OCLC

• ocn221663449
• 221663449
• SCSB-9052254

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries