Competition and Finance

Name: Competition and Finance
Author: Kevin Dowd

A Reinterpretation of Financial and Monetary Economics

Specificaties

Paperback, blz. | Engels

Palgrave Macmillan UK | 1996

ISBN13: 9780333613733

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Palgrave Macmillan UK e druk, 1996 9780333613733

Verwachte levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen

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Samenvatting

Competition and Finance offers a new, unified treatment of the fields of financial and monetary economics. The first part integrates recent developments in agency theory and information economics into a unified financial theory of the firm. A review of recent developments in the economics of banking and then monetary economics leads to a conclusion assessing present-day systems of central banking and proposing financial and monetary reform.

Specificaties

ISBN13:9780333613733

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:paperback

Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

Hoofdrubriek:Economie

Inhoudsopgave

Preface - Introduction - Bilateral Financial Contracts - Capital Structure and Corporate Financial Policy - Why Financial Intermediaries Exist - Broker Intermediaries - Mutual-Fund Intermediaries - Bank Intermediaries - The Structure of the Banking Industry - Recent Models of Banking Instability - Media of Exchange and Payment Systems - The Economics of the Unit of Account - The Mechanics of Convertibility - 'Real Bills' Systems - Monometallic, Bimetallic and Related Monetary Standards - Commodity-Basket Monetary Standards - The Construction of the Price Index - 'Tabular Standards' - Price-Level Optimality - Productivity Growth and the Price Level - Financial and Monetary Reform - References - Index