Customer Review: This is an interesting,but incomplete,set of essays written by Jean-Charles Rochet and a number of co-authors which are based on the standard views of analyzing the banking industry's interest rate risk problems -asymmetric(incomplete or partial) information,adverse selection,moral hazard,and income... more info
Customer Review: Needs to be much more nuts and boltsy, and less soft survey like. As an example, doesn't even define what makes a bank regulatable as a bank -- one of the most basic issues in banking law.
Customer Review: THE AUTHORS ARE VERY WORRIED ABOUT THE PARLOUS STATE OF THE WORLD FINANCIAL SYSTEM AFTER "FREE CAPITAL" PRIVATIZATION, DEREGULATION, AND THE GOALS AND SHIBBOLETHS OF THE MAJOR GOVERMENTS FOR THE PAST DECADE. THIS IS A TECHNICAL ACCOUNT OF WHY THE STATUS QUO WILL VERY LIKELY PRODUCE DISASTER. DESPITE... more info
