Since 1990, major banking and current crises have occurred in many countries throughout the world - including Mexico and Latin America in 1994-95, East Asia in 1997-98, and Russia and Brazil in 1998 - with large costs both to the individual countries experiencing the crises and to other nations....

1 Bank Structure in Canada -- 2 Bank Structure in Chile -- 3 Banking Structure of China -- 4 Banking in the European Economic Community: Structure, Competition, and Public Policy -- 5 The French Financial System -- 6 The Structure of the Italian Financial System -- 7 The Evolution of Japanese...

Equal treatment in access to credit has long been a fundamental social goal in the United States. However, despite the passage of several laws in the U.S. prohibiting discrimination in the provision of financial services on the basis of race, gender, and marital status, among other factors,...

This volume focuses on constructing a safer and more efficient financial system based on the lessons learned from the financial debacles of the 1980s. The first essay discusses the economic and political forces both propelling and opposing widespread banking reform. The next two essays describe...

In the late 1990s, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia experienced a series of major financial crises evinced by widespread bank insolvencies and currency depreciations, as well as sharp declines in gross domestic production. This sudden disruption of the Asian economic `miracle' astounded...

1 Purpose and Operation of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee -- 2 Guaranty of Deposits Under the Banking Act of 1933 -- 3 Restructuring Banking: The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee’s Program for Banking Reform -- 4 Market—Value Accounting by Banks: Benefits, Costs and...