Banking Structures in Major Countries
The ongoing globalization of financial markets has increased the import ance to users of financial services, policy-makers and financial analysts of understanding the structure and operation of banking systems in other countries as well as that in their
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Innovations in Financial Markets and Institutions
Editors: Robert A. Eisenbeis and Richard W. McEnally University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.
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Banking Structures in Major Countries
Edited by George G. Kaufman Loyola University of Chicago
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Banking structures in major countries/edited by George G. Kaufman. p. cm.-(Innovations in financial markets and institutions) Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-94-010-5308-2 ISBN 978-94-011-2946-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-2946-6
1. Banks and banking-Europe. 2. Banks and banking -United States. 3. Banks and banking-Canada. 4. Banks and banking-Japan. 5. Banks and bankingChina. I. Kaufman, George G. 11. Series. HG2974.B36 1991 332.1-dc20 90-6621 CIP
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Contents
About the Authors Preface
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Bank Structure in Canada Lawrence Kryzanowski and Gordon S. Roberts
2 Bank Structure in Chile Sergio de la Cuadra and Salvador Valdes-Prieto
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3 Banking Structure of China Zhou Lin
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4 Banking in the European Economic Community: Structure, Competition, and Public Policy Joseph Bisignano
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7 The Evolution of Japanese Banking and Finance Thomas F. Cargill and Shoichi Royama
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The French Financial System L. Beduc, F. Ducruezet, and P. Papadacci The Structure of the Italian Financial System G.P. Szeg6 and V.S. Szeg6
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9 The British Financial System David T. Llewellyn
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Index
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Bank Structure in Switzerland Urs W. Birchler and Georg Rich
The United States Financial System Herbert L. Baer and Larry R. Mote Bank Structure in West Germany Randall Johnston Pozdena and Vol bert Alexander
About the Authors
George G. Kaufman is the John F. Smith Jr. Professor of Finance and Economics at Loyola University of Chicago. He previously taught at the University of Oregon and was an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley, a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and the Comptroller of the Currency, and also served as the deputy to the assistant secretary for ec
