The rise and fall of abacus banking in Japan and China / Yuko Arayama and Panos Mourdoukoutas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arayama, Yūkō, 1951-

Contributor:

Mourdoukoutas, Panos.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Banks and banking--Japan.

Banks and banking.

Banks and banking--China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bankers in Japan and China are masters of accounting, not risk management, and American-style rescue packages will not solve their problems. This work explains the banking crises in Japan and China, pointing out that Japanese and Chinese bankers must learn to ""escape the abacus mentality"".

Contents:

Preliminaries; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Beyond Non performing Assets Abacus Banking; 2 The Rise of Abacus Banking in Japan; 3 The Fall of Abacus Banking in Japan; 4 The Banking Crisis; 5 The Rise of Abacus Banking in China; 6 The Fall of Abacus Banking in China; 7 The Looming Banking Crisis in China; 8 Conclusions; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-177) and index.

ISBN:

9781429473057

1429473053

9781567507003

156750700X

OCLC:

181827631