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Banking and financial services / edited by James Rosenfeld.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benston, George J.
- Series:
- The selected works of George J. Benston ; v. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Banks and banking.
- Financial services industry.
- Finance.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (373 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- George J. Benston, professor of Finance, Accounting, and Economics at Emory University's Goizueta Business School, died unexpectedly in January 2008. He was an impassioned advocate for corporate integrity and a unique scholar; his research interests were as broad as those of any recent academician. 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. The editor has selected a broad range of papers from each of the major areas that are representative of Benston's work in
- Contents:
- 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 Banking9. 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 Discrimination in Mortgage Lending: Why HMDA and CRA Should Be Repealed; 13.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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-61338-3
- 9786612613388
- 0-19-974546-3
- OCLC:
- 638860525
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