Springer The Industrial Organization of Banking: Bank Behavior, Market Structure, and Regulation

Product Description The goal of this original and relevant book is to provide a complete overview, exposition, and evaluation of the interplay among bank behavior, market structure, and regulation. It also considers implications for a variety of public policy issues. From the Back Cover This book aims to provide a thoroughly updated overview and evaluation of the industrial organization of banking. It examines the interplay among bank behavior, market structure, and regulation from the perspective of a variety of public policy issues, including bank competition and risk, market discipline, antitrust issues, and capital regulation. New to this edition are discussions of the economic foundations of international banking, macroprudential regulation, and international coordination of banking policies. The book can serve as a learning tool and reference for graduate students, academics, bankers, and policymakers with interests in the industrial organization of the banking sector and the impacts of banking regulations. About the Author David D. VanHoose earned his B.A. in economics at Indiana University and his Ph.D. in economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  He is currently the Herman W. Lay Professor of Private Enterprise at the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University.  VanHoose has published numerous articles in professional economics and finance journals and has authored or co-authored several textbooks. He serves as an editor of the Journal of Macroeconomics and as a co-editor of Open Economies Review.