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9780875846224

The Global Financial System

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  • ISBN13:

    9780875846224

  • ISBN10:

    087584622X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1995-10-01
  • Publisher: Harvard Business School Pr
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Summary

Leading financial scholars present essays examining the performance of the basic financial functions underlying global financial systems: payments, lending and investing, pooling funds, allocating risk, providing information, and dealing with incentive issues--with particular emphasis on how their performance is changing and implications for the future.

Table of Contents

Preface
A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing the Financial Environmentp. 3
The Payment System and Derivative Instrumentsp. 33
The Economics of Poolingp. 81
The Transfer of Economic Resourcesp. 129
The Allocation of Riskp. 153
The Informational Role of Asset Prices: The Case of Implied Volatilityp. 197
Incentive Problems in Financial Contracting: Impacts on Corporate Financing, Investment, and Risk Management Policiesp. 225
Financial Infrastructure and Public Policy: A Functional Perspectivep. 263
About the Contributorsp. 283
Indexp. 285
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