Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title New financial instruments and institutions : opportunities and policy challenges / Yasuyuki Fuchita, Robert E. Litan, editors
Published Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2007

Copies

Description 1 online resource (vii, 227 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. ETFs and REITs in Japan: Innovation and Steps for Future Growth; 3. Securitization of Residential Mortgages: Can Japan Create a "Good" GSE?; Comment on chapters 2 and 3 by Adam S. Posen; 4. Gap Filling, Hedge Funds, and Financial Innovation; 5. The Rise of the U.S. Private Equity Market; Comment on chapters 4 and 5 by Franklin R. Edwards; 6. Policy Issues Raised by Structured Products; 7. The Development of Improved Exchange-Traded Funds in the United States; Comment on chapters 6 and 7 by Kenneth E. Scott; Contributors
Summary "Presents research from experts in academia and the financial industry on financial instruments and new financial institutions, contrasting developments in the United States and Japan. Highlights innovative ways in which Japanese financiers and government officials have learned from the United States regarding the introduction of new instruments into their market"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Finance -- Japan
Financial institutions -- Japan
Finance -- Technological innovations -- Japan
Finance -- Technological innovations -- United States
Economic policy
Finance
Finance -- Technological innovations
Financial institutions
SUBJECT Japan -- Economic policy -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90003634
Subject Japan
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Fuchita, Yasuyuki, 1958-
Litan, Robert E., 1950-
LC no. 2007018701
ISBN 9780815729846
0815729847
1280856629
9781280856624
9786610856626
6610856621