Contemporary Financial Intermediation

by Stuart I. Greenbaum, Anjan V. Thakor

Overview

Contemporary Financial Intermediation, Second Edition, brings a unique analytical approach to the subject of banks and banking.

This completely revised and updated edition expands the scope of the typical bank management course by addressing all types of deposit-type financial institutions, and by explaining the why of intermediation rather than simply describing institutions, regulations, and market phenomena. This analytic approach strikes at the heart of financial intermediation by explaining why financial intermediaries exist and what they do. Specific regulations, economies, and policies will change, but the underlying philosophical foundations remain the same. This approach enables students to understand the foundational principles and to apply them to whatever context they encounter as professionals.

This book is the perfect liaison between the microeconomics realm of information economics and the real world of banking and financial intermediation.

This book is recommended for advanced undergraduates and MSc in Finance students with courses on commercial bank management, banking, money and banking, and financial intermediation.

• Completely undated edition of a classic banking text
• Authored by experts on financial intermediation theory, only textbook that takes this approach situating banks within microeconomic theory

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780080476810
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	03/20/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	672
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Stuart Greenbaum is a leading authority on banks. Formerly dean of the John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, he spent twenty years at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, where he was the Director of the Banking Research Center and the Norman Strunk Distinguished Professor of Financial Institutions. Three times he was appointed to the Federal Savings and Loan Advisory Council and was twice officially commended for extraordinary public service. He is founding editor of the Journal of Financial Intermediation.
As the John E. Simon Professor of Finance and Senior Associate Dean of Programs at the Olin School of Business, Washington University, St. Louis, Anjan Thakor works in both academia and the business world. Prior to joining the Olin School, he was Edward J. Frey Professor of Banking and Finance at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, where he also served as chairman of the Finance area. He has worked with many companies, including Whirlpool Corporation, Allision Engine Co., Citigroup, RR Donnelley, Dana Corporation, Anheuser-Busch, Zenith Corporation, Lincoln National Corporation, and J.P. Morgan.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Basic Concepts
Chapter 2 The Nature and Variety of Financial Intermediation
Chapter 3 The What, How, and Why of Financial Intermediaries
Chapter 4 Major Risks Faced by Banks
Chapter 5 Sport Lending
Chapter 6 Further Issues in Bank Lending
Chapter 7 Off-Balance Sheet Banking and Contingent Claims Products
Chapter 8 Securitization and Loan Sales
Chapter 9 The Deposit Contract and Insurance
Chapter 10 Objectives of Bank Regulation
Chapter 11 Milestones in Banking Legislation and Regulatory Reform
Chapter 12 Management of Risks and Opportunities in Banking
Chapter 13 International Banking: Lending and Related Issues
Chapter 14 International Banking: Regulation
Chapter 15 Mergers and Acquisitions
Chapter 16 Organization Culture in Banking: Governance, Quality, and Ethics
Chapter 17 The Future

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Teaches the logic behind the shifting relationships among financial institutions, markets, and regulations

Editorial Reviews

"Since its first edition, Greenbaum, Thakor and Boot has become the standard textbook on financial intermediation, a sector 'contemporary as never before.' This revised edition nicely reflects the renewed and necessary attention given to the sector." —Steven Ongena, University of Zurich

"Contemporary Financial Intermediation provides a unified framework for understanding the role of present day financial intermediaries, their contribution to society, the risks they face, financial crises, and the role of financial regulation. A valuable book for students interested in learning about financial markets and institutions, and how the global landscape has changed." —Ravi Jagannathan, Northwestern University

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