The latest global financial and economic crisis of 2008 has shown the need to re-examine the desirability of financial liberalization. This book is undertaking such a study on the issue of financial and market liberalization by adopting sophisticated econometric methods. It examines the effects...

Does an unregulated financial system absorb too many productive inputs? This paper studies this question in the context of a dynamic model with heterogeneous producers. In the absence of a financial system, the only way to purchase inputs is using internal funds. Producers are subject to...

La crise financière a conduit les banques à brader une valeur essentielle à leur bon fonctionnement, et dont elles s'étaient jusqu'alors prévalues: la confiance. En développant les investissements socialement responsables au-delà de tout marketing bancaire, celle-ci peut être regagnée....