This study providesa comprehensive description of the global insurance industry and details the current state of international agreements that govern trade in insurance.

This book discusses banking, insurance, and securities regulation, as well as issues in consumer finance and electronic commerce.

Today's knowledge-based economy requires an entirely new system of assessing the value of companies--a system tapping the vast communication capabilities of the Internet.

This study explains why financial services have for centuries been regulated to a greater extent than are most products that do not directly affect people's health or safety.

This study outlines the compelling case for widespread deregulation of property-liability insurance rates and forms.

High loan-to-value mortgage lending is a fast-growing sector of the mortgage industry that has evolved to meet the needs of today's consumers.

The authors demonstrate how regulation intended to control costs can exacerbate cost growth by subsidizing high-risk activities and firms at the expense of low-risk activities and firms.

In response to heightened competition, the larger insurance companies and various insurance industry groups have become interested in the concept of federal chartering and regulation.

Key economists for the government and for the Microsoft Corporation lay out their views on the key issues and then respond to the views presented by the opposing side.

The central causes of the Savings and Loans debacle, according to this study, lay in the decision to substitute government regulation for the disciplines of the market.