Dowd Kevin

Competition and finance: a reinterpretation of financial and monetary economics - London Macmillan Press 1996 - xii, 572p. 23cm ; Hard

1. Introduction --
2. Bilateral Financial Contracts --
3. Capital Structure and Corporate Financial Policy --
4. Why Financial Intermediaries Exist --
5. Broker Intermediaries --
6. Mutual-fund Intermediaries --
7. Bank Intermediaries --
8. The Structure of the Banking Industry --
9. Recent Models of Banking Instability --
10. Media of exchange and Payment Systems --
11. The Economics of the Unit of Account --
12. The Mechanics of Convertibility --
13. Monometallic, Bimetallic and Related Monetary Standards --
14. Commodity-basket Monetary Standards --
15. Price-level Optimality --
16. Financial and Monetary Reform.

978-0333613724


Financial economics
Monetary policy
Free banking
Free enterprise

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