Perspectives on Safe and Sound Banking: Past, Present, and Future

by George J. Benston, Robert A. Eisenbeis, Paul M. Horvitz, et al.

Book Overview

In this book five leading bank scholars explore the safety and soundness of the U.S. banking system in an economic environment where the likelihood of failures of individual banks has significantly increased. Banking is now, and always has been, a risky business. The key to success both in operating a bank and in supervising a banking system is appropriate risk management. Yet risk management has become increasingly difficult because of higher and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026202246X
• ISBN13: 9780262022460
• Release Date: April 1986
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher