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Capital Markets, Globalization, and Economic Development consists of fourteen articles contributed by authors from Australia, Asia, Europe, South America, and the United States who provide a wide range of insights. The contributors include academics, government officials, and regulators. This book examines some of the capital market issues that economies face as they mature. These include, but are not limited to, credit ratings, financial regulation, infrastructure privatization and other timely topics.
List of contents
Insights from a Global Survey on Bank Capital.- The Effects of Basel II on Developing Countries: A Summary of a Global Public Goods Network eForum on Basel II.- Capital Games.- The International Transmission of Capital Shocks: Implictions of a Revised Basel Accord for Developing Countries.- Designing Banking Sector Safety Nets: The Australian Experience.- Globalization and the Growth of International Stock Exchanges.- Globalization of the Bond and Stock Markets: The Japanese Case-An International Perspective.- Weekly Expected Credit Spreads in Latin-American Brady Bonds.- Rethinking Project Finance.- Impact of Globalization and Economic Development in Asia and Australia.- Globalization and the Changing Relationship Between Economic Development and Capital Markets: Innovations in Funding for Microfinance.- Waiting for Capital: The Impact of Corruption in Indonesian Financial Markets.- Credit Ratings in China.- Finance and Development: Granger-Causality Tests for Prewar and Postwar U.S.A., U.K., and Japan.
About the author
Dr. Gup has a broad background in finance. After receiving his Ph.D. in economics, he served as a staff economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. He holds the Chair of Banking at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.
Summary
Capital Markets, Globalization, and Economic Development consists of fourteen articles contributed by authors from Australia, Asia, Europe, South America, and the United States who provide a wide range of insights. The contributors include academics, government officials, and regulators. This book examines some of the capital market issues that economies face as they mature. These include, but are not limited to, credit ratings, financial regulation, infrastructure privatization and other timely topics.
