Bank Crises: Causes, Analysis and Prevention (Research in Financial Services: Private and Public Policy, 10) - Hardcover

Kaufman, George G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0762303581 ISBN 13: 9780762303588

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 1999

Synopsis

The papers in this volume were presented at three invited sessions at the annual meeting of the Western Economic Association in Lake Tahoe, Nevada on June 30 and July 1, 1998. The comments of the speaker at each of these sessions are also included. The papers focus on the widespread banking and financial crises that have plagued many countries worldwide. A study by the International Monetary Fund (Lindgren, Garcia, & Saal, 1996) reported that banking crises had been experienced by nearly three-quarters of its 180-plus member countries since 1980. And this was before the current problems in Korea and Southeast Asia. Only the African continent, where banking systems are generally quite primitive, appears to have been unaffected. The papers in this volume amplify on the evidence in this area for additional countries; expand the earlier analyses; describe, discuss, and evaluate alternative procedures for resolving bank insolvencies and recapitalizing the banking system, and suggest ways of maintaining bank solvency and preventing reoccurrences of these costly crises. The papers are timely, add considerably to our storehouse of knowledge, and are likely to be of particular value to policy makers, bankers, and fellow researchers.

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Review:

Twelve papers, presented at the annual meeting of the Western Economic Association held in Lake Tahoe in June-July 1998, examine recent banking and financial crises in a number of countries worldwide and address the challenge of resolving these crises and preventing future crises. ...Kaufmann is John F. Smith Professor of Finance at Loyola University, Chicago.
Journal of Economic Literature

About this edition

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0762303581
• ISBN 13: 9780762303588
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Kaufman G. G., Cogan Diane