Myth of Too Big to Fail

Informationen zum Autor IMAD MOOSA is Professor of Finance at Monash University, Australia. Prior to becoming an academic, he was a professional economist and a financial journalist. Professor Moosa has published ten books and over 160 papers in international journals. He has served in a number of advisory positions, including as an economic advisor to the U.S. Treasury. Klappentext The book presents arguments against the taxpayers'-funded bailing out of failed financial institutions, and puts forward suggestions to circumvent the TBTF problem, including some preventive measures. It ultimately argues that a failing financial institution should be allowed to fail without fearing an apocalyptic outcome. Zusammenfassung The book presents arguments against the taxpayers'-funded bailing out of failed financial institutions! and puts forward suggestions to circumvent the TBTF problem! including some preventive measures. It ultimately argues that a failing financial institution should be allowed to fail without fearing an apocalyptic outcome. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Doctrine of TBT The History of TBTF and High-Profile Episodes Far too Big and Politically Connected The Obesity of the Financial Sector Worthy of a Bailout: To be or Not to Be Why too Big to Fail is Too Outrageous to Accept Dealing with the Menace of TBTF Forget about Basel II

Product details

• Authors: MOOSA IMAD, I. Moosa, Imad Moosa, I Moosa, Imad A. Moosa
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 27.10.2010
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics
• EAN: 9780230277762
• ISBN: 978-0-230-27776-2
• Pages: 239
• Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions; Palgrave MacMillan Studies in; Palgrave MacMillan Studies in; Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions
• Subjects: Makroökonomie, Unternehmensfinanzierung, B, Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie, Economic Policy, Banking, Corporate Finance, macroeconomics, Financial Services, auseinandersetzen, Political Economy, Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Business Finance, Monetary Economics, Public finance, Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Business enterprises—Finance, Banks and banking, Finance, Public, Corporations—Finance, Finanzenwesen und Finanzindustrie