Corporate Governance in Banking
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (633 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1845429400 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The 13 chapters, primarily by economists from a number of different countries, analyze governance in banking in both the US and other countries. Yet this is an important area both because banking is a large and important sector and because it is highly regulated so that the stakeholders and directors must share their governance authority with government regulators. This volume helps fill the gap. 'While corporate governance in general has received considerable attention from economists in recent years, governance of banks specifically has received relatively little. Thus the reader can evaluate both the quality and effectiveness of bank governance across different economic environments. This makes the volume highly valuable to corporate investors and mangers as well as researchers and government policymakers.'- George Kaufman, Loyola University, US
Against this background, the contributors explore aspects of corporate governance in banking from a global perspective: bank regulation and activity expansion in the US, board structure, community banks, the Enron and WorldCom corporate governance failures, a survey of characteristics of the top 100 world banks, as well as case studies of Australian, German and Hungarian banks. This impressive international set of expert contributors - academics, practitioners and regulators - remedy the lack of attention by examining the various issues and concerns of this important topic.The