000			01062nam a2200145Ia 4500
020			_a978-0333613724
082			_a332 DOW
100			_aDowd Kevin
245			_aCompetition and finance: a reinterpretation of financial and monetary economics
260			_c1996 _bMacmillan Press _aLondon
300			_axii, 572p. _b23cm ; Hard
505			_a1. 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.
650			_aFinancial economics _aMonetary policy _aFree banking _aFree enterprise
942			_cBK
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