Rethinking Bank Regulation: Till Angels Govern [With CDROM]

by Ross Levine, Gerard Caprio Jr., James R. Barth, et al.

Book Overview

This volume assembles and presents a database on bank regulation in over 150 countries (included also on CD). It offered the first comprehensive cross-country assessment of the impact of bank regulation on the operation of banks, and assesses the validity of the Basel Committee's influential approach to bank regulation. The treatment also provides an empirical evaluation of the historic debate about the proper role of government in the economy by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521855764
• ISBN13: 9780521855761
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"