Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Banking Crises -- Chapter 2: Causes of the Subprime Crisis -- Chapter 3: Regulatory Reform Since the Crisis -- Chapter 4: Addressing the Too-Big-To-Fail Problem -- Chapter 5: A Safer World of Banking: Out of...

India's public sector banks (PSBs) are compared unfavorably with their private sector counterparts, domestic and foreign. This comparison rests, for the most part, on financial measures of performance, and such a comparison provides much of the rationale for privatization of PSBs.In this paper,...