I The Evolving International Financial Environment -- 1 Global Financial Markets: The Past, The Future, and Public Policy Questions -- 2 The Telecommunications and Information Revolution: Implications for Financial Markets, Trading Systems, and Regulation -- 3 The Financial System and Global...

Stock and bond issues and capital markets in less developed countries (LDCs) have recently received increasing attention from policy-makers, and this preliminary study provides a cross-country survey of the actual experience of LDCs in this respect. Issues of stocks and bonds in relation to...

This path-breaking comparative study of the economies of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan analyses the evolution of the financial systems of each country in relation to their last four decades of dynamic economic growth. Each country study is addressed in two chapters, the first covering macroeconomic...