Moving money : banking and finance in the industrialized world /

"Moving Money analyzes the influence of politics on financial systems. Daniel Verdier examines how information asymmetry and economies of scale over time have created a redistributional conflict between large and small banks, and financial centers and their peripheries, and he discusses how gov...

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Main Author: Verdier, Daniel, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0511042477
9780511042478
9780511491887
0511491883
9780511045608
0511045603
1280434104
9781280434105
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Theoretical Conjectures on Banking, Finance and Politics
  • Capital scarcity, capital mobility, and information asymmetry: a survey
  • The institutions of capital mobility
  • The First Expansion (1850-1913)
  • The advent of deposit banking
  • The internationalization of finance
  • The origins of corporate security markets
  • The origins of universal banking
  • The Second Expansion (1960-2000)
  • Sectoral realignment
  • The globalization of banking
  • The growth of security markets
  • Choosing the right product mix.