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Engineering the financial crisis : systemic risk and the failure of regulation /
This study examines the role of the Basel Accords--a set of international standards regulating bank capital--in the global financial crisis. It argues that because the accords were so widely adopted, they effectively homogenized the banking industry, increasing the systemic risk they were intended t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2011.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This study examines the role of the Basel Accords--a set of international standards regulating bank capital--in the global financial crisis. It argues that because the accords were so widely adopted, they effectively homogenized the banking industry, increasing the systemic risk they were intended to prevent. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 212 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-200) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812243574 0812243579 9781283897990 1283897997 9780812205077 0812205073 |