Product Description: Excessive leverage and risk taking by large international banks were the main causes of the 2008–09 financial crisis and the ensuing sharp drop in economic activity and employment. World leaders and central bankers promised that it would not happen again and, to this end, undertook to overhaul banking regulation, first and foremost by rectifying Basel prudential rules...read more

Product Description: Following the demise of Lehman Brothers, the debate on regulatory reform has centered around whether large financial institutions must be broken up and their risk-taking activities limited by law, as called for by the "Volcker rule...read more

Product Description: The purpose of this collection is to shed light on the processes that lead to convergence or divergence in national inflation rates. It examines inflation and wage behavior in the European Monetary System (EMS), their determinants, and their implications for the credibility and sustainability of the system's exchange rate mechanism (ERM)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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