Financial Strategies and Public Policies: Banking, Insurance and Industry

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Strategies of Industrial Enterprises and of International Finance....Pages 1-6
Highlights on BP’s New Distribution of Functions....Pages 7-10
Limitations to Merging Lines of Business....Pages 11-16
Changes in the Japanese Financial System and the Intermediary Functions of Banks....Pages 17-29
The Insurance Industry in the 1990s....Pages 30-33
Global Consolidation of the Financial Services Industry....Pages 34-49
The US Financial Situation and Banking System — Implications for Regulation and Monetary Policy....Pages 50-55
‘Competition’: A New Entry in the Regulators’ Dictionary?....Pages 56-60
Challenges of Monetary/Financial Regulatory Policies since the 1980s....Pages 61-65
Perspectives of Monetary Policies....Pages 66-71
Globalisation of Securities Markets and Comprehensive Financial Services Reform in the United States....Pages 72-79
The Regulation of Financial Conglomerates and ‘Contagion Risk’....Pages 80-89
Economic Reform in Czechoslovakia and the Role of Foreign Assistance....Pages 90-94
The Financing of German Unity....Pages 95-111
Non-Debt-Creating Transfers of Financial Resources during the 1990s: The Case of Mexico....Pages 112-122
Do Banks have a Role to Play in Foreign Non-Debt-Creating Transfers of Financial Resources....Pages 123-146
Strategies of Multinational Industrial Groups: The Car Industry....Pages 147-150
The Financial Needs of Major Corporations....Pages 151-156
International Capital Markets: Evolution and Prospects....Pages 157-162
The European Financial Area and Switzerland....Pages 163-172
EC Regulation in the Financial Services Sector....Pages 173-179
Coping with Uncertainty in the Financial Services Sector: A Few Policy Reflections....Pages 180-195
Back Matter....Pages 197-210