The Future of Financial Systems and Services: Essays in Honor of Jack Revell

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Jack Revell....Pages 3-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Competition and Structural Change in the British Financial System....Pages 15-35
The Process of Change in Belgian Banking....Pages 36-50
The Impact of Securitisation and Internationalisation on Market Imperfections: Implications for Regulatory Reform and the Structure of the Payments System....Pages 51-71
The Banking and Financial System in Argentina: The History of a Crisis....Pages 72-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
UK Indexed Gilts: A Case Study of Financial Indexation....Pages 87-103
Recent Developments in the Money Markets....Pages 104-125
Bank Borrowing, Small Firms, and the USM....Pages 126-140
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
International Bank Profitability: Theory and Evidence....Pages 143-169
Towards a Restructuring of the International Financial Services Industry: Some Preliminary Empirical and Theoretical Insights....Pages 170-192
The Role of Swiss Banks in International Finance....Pages 193-204
Obstacles to International Trade in Insurance....Pages 205-221
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Banking as Insurance....Pages 225-242
The Growth of Asset and Liability Management....Pages 243-257
Financial Conglomeration: A New Challenge for Banking....Pages 258-282
One-Stop Financial Service Delivery Opportunities in a World of Automated Self-Service Banking: Some Evidence from the United States....Pages 283-292
Front Matter....Pages 293-294
Stock Market Instability and Financial Regulation....Pages 295-309
International Convergence of Capital Adequacy Measurement and Standards....Pages 310-335
Getting Off the Back of a Tiger: The Deposit Insurance Crisis in the United States....Pages 336-352
Deregulation in Banking: Lessons from the Italian Case....Pages 353-361
Front Matter....Pages 293-294
Prudential Regulation of Large Loans in the Italian Banking System....Pages 362-375
Capital Adequacy: The Italian Experience....Pages 376-386
Back Matter....Pages 387-401