Financial Institutions and Markets: Current Issues in Financial Markets

by G. Kaufman (Editor), R. Bliss (Editor)

Overview

This book isa collection of research papers that contribute to the understanding of ongoing developments in financial institutions and markets both in the United States and globally.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349375837
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	01/08/2009
Edition description:	1st ed. 2008
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

GEORGE KAUFMAN is Professor of Business Administration, Loyola University, Chicago, USA.

ROB BLISS is Professor, Calloway School of Business and Accountancy, Wake Forest University, USA.

Table of Contents

When a Bank is not a Bank: The Case of Industrial Loan Companies; C.Johnson  & G.G.Kaufman Banking and Commerce: What Difference Does Wal-Mart Make?; C.E.Blair Managing Financial Failure in an Evolving Economic and Financial Environment; E.H.G.Hüpkes The Political Economy of Burden Sharing and Prompt Corrective Action; G.H.Garcia Uncertainty, Transparency and Future Monetary Policy; M.D.Hayford  & A.G.Malliaris The Trimmed Mean PCE Inflation Rate: A Better Measure of Core Inflation; H.Rosenblum  & N.Y.Cote Payday Lending and Payments Services: An Historical and Modern Analysis; R.DeYoung  & R.J.Phillips Insider Trading and Large Chapter 11 Bankruptcies: 1995–2006; T.Nasser  & B.E.Gup