The Selected Works of George J. Benston, Volume 1 : Banking and Financial Services.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenfeld, James D.

Contributor:

Rosenfeld, James D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Banks and banking.

Financial services industry.

Finance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2010.

Summary:

George Benston, professor of Finance, Accounting, and Economics at Emory University and an impassioned advocate for corporate integrity, died unexpectedly in January 2008. His colleagues have selected and organized his most important papers into two volumes. This first volume consists of his research in the banking and financial services industry.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Contributors

Sources

1. Interest Payments on Demand Deposits and Bank Investment Behavior

2. Branch Banking and Economies of Scale

3. Bank Examiners' Evaluation of Credit: An Analysis of the Usefulness of Substandard Loan Data

4. Scale Economies in Banking: A Restructuring and Reassessment

5. Regulating Bank Safety and Performance

6. The Federal "Safety Net" and the Repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act's: Separation of Commercial and Investment Banking

7. The Intellectual History of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991

8. Safety Nets and Moral Hazard in Banking

9. Is the Banking and Payments System Fragile?

10. Motivations for Bank Mergers and Acquisitions: Enhancing the Deposit Insurance Put Option versus Earnings Diversification

11. Universal Banking

12. Discrimination in Mortgage Lending: Why HMDA and CRA Should Be Repealed

13. Deposit Insurance Reform in the FDIC Improvement Act: The Experience to Date

14. Bank Capital Structure, Regulatory Capital, and Securities Innovations

Index

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G

H

I

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Rosenfeld, James D. The Selected Works of George J. Benston, Volume 1

ISBN:

9780199745463

OCLC:

638860525