Description |
1 online resource (x, 143 pages) |
Summary |
"This book explores the general issue of the origins of excessive risk taking in the banking industry; it questions what went wrong with financial regulation and how overoptimistic expectations, short-termism and inaccurate risk models were implicitly encouraged. It focuses on four main issues that provide the incentives for excessive risk taking: 1) The corporate governance of financial institutions; 2) The misperception of risk in relation to business cycles.; 3) The apparent failure of supervisory authorities and market discipline; 4) The relationship of risk taking to implicit bail-out guarantees "--Introduction |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
English |
Subject |
Financial crises.
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Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
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Financial crises
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Dewatripoint, M. (Mathias)
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Freixas, Xavier.
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ISBN |
9781907142512 |
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1907142517 |
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1907142541 |
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9781907142543 |
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