Edited By
Anjan V. Thakor, John E. Simon Professor of Finance and Senior Associate Dean of Programs, Olin School of Business, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
Arnoud Boot, University of Amsterdam

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Handbook in Finance

Audience
Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, professors, and professionals studying financial intermediation, in particular banking, financial systems, regulation, mutual funds, and interbank competition

Contents
OVERALL INTRODUCTION Arnoud W.A. Boot and Anjan V. Thakor Section 1: Design of Securities and Contracts Overview by Franklin Allen Paolo Fulghieri and Eitan Goldman ?The Design of Debt Contracts? Anthony Sanders, Yongheng Deng and Xudong An ?Subordination Levels in Structured Financing? Section 2: Market Structure and Structure of Financial Markets Christine Parlour and Duane Seppi ?Limit Order Markets: A Survey? Section 3: Structure of Financial Institutions Overview by Mitch Berlin Philip E. Strahan ?Bank Structure and Lending: What We Do and Do Not Know? Loretta J. Mester ?Optimal Industrial Structure in Banking? Amar Gande ?Commercial Banks in Investment Banking: A Survey? Section 4: Mutual Funds Overview by Sudipto Bhattacharya Bruce Lehmann and Allan Timmermann ?Performance Measurement and Evaluation? Lu Zheng ?The Behavior of Mutual Fund Investors? Sudipto Bhattacharya, Amil Dasgupta and Andrea Prat ?Incentives in Funds Management: Foundations and Consequences? Section 5: Regulation Overview by Mark Flannery Kenneth D. Jones and Tim Critchfield ?Consolidation in the U.S. Banking Industry: Is the ?Long, Strange Trip? About to End?? page Robert DeYoung ?Safety, Soundness, and The Evolution of the U.S. Banking Industry? Mark Flannery and Kasturi P. Rangan ?What Caused the Bank Capital Build-up of the 1990s?? Paul H. Kupiec ?Basel II: A Case for Recalibration? Section 6: Competition and Regulation Overview by Xavier Vives ?Competition and Regulation in Banking? Elena Carletti ?Competition and Regulation in Banking? Hans Degryse and Steven Ongena ?Competition and Regulation in the Banking Sector: A Review of the Empirical Evidence on the Sources of Bank Rents?

Bibliographic & ordering Information
Hardbound, 608 pages, publication date: MAY-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-51558-2
ISBN-10: 0-444-51558-5
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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EUR 125
USD 149.95