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Tables of Contents for Comparing Financial Systems
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
 
I Setting the Stage
1
150
Comparing Financial Systems
3
22
The Historical Development of Financial Systems
25
22
Institutions and Markets
47
32
Corporate Governance
79
48
The Limitations of Markets: The Classical View
127
24
II Competition Versus Insurance
151
188
Intertemporal Smoothing
153
38
Information and Resource Allocation
191
40
Competition in Banking
231
40
Financial Crises
271
44
Renegotiation and Relationships
315
24
III The Role of the Firm
339
62
Autonomous, Self-Financing Firms
341
34
Objectives of Firms
375
26
IV Markets and Intermediaries
401
102
Diversity of Opinion and Resource Allocation
403
36
Costly Markets
439
30
Relationships and Risk Sharing
469
28
Afterword
497
6
Index
503