TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dowd Kevin
TI  - Competition and finance: a reinterpretation of financial and monetary economics
SN  - 978-0333613724
U1  - 332 DOW 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - London
PB  - Macmillan Press
KW  - Financial economics
KW  - Monetary policy
KW  - Free banking
KW  - Free enterprise
N1  - 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
ER  -