deepening integration of China into global financial markets and its move from an indirect bank-based system towards a direct … academics, consultants and students working in banking and finance, international financial markets, comparative economics …, Finance and Business Research at the International Business program of The Hague University of Applied Sciences in the …

Focusing on U.S. non-finance industries, we examine the connection between the financialization of the US economy and … rising income inequality. We argue that the increasing reliance by firms on earnings realized through financial channels … substantial on all three dimensions of increased inequality. The counterfactual analysis suggests that financialization accounts …

-- Commercial bank operations -- International banking -- Regulation of financial institutions -- Financial institutions -- Thrift … institutions and finance companies -- Insurance companies and pension funds -- Investment banking -- Investment companies -- Risk …

combined with innovation and competition between regulated and unregulated banks encouraged the emergence of shadow banks, as …