Preventing bank crises : lesson from recent global bank failures /
edited by Gerard Caprio, Jr., William C. Hunter, Geoge G. Kaufman y Danny M. Leipziger.
- Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 1998.
- xiii, 377 páginas : ilustraciones a blanco y negro ; 24 cm.
- EDI Development Studies .
Proceedings of a conference.
Abbreviations and acronyms, vi -- Foreword, vii -- Acknowledgments, viii -- Introduction, ix -- Part I. Avoiding banking crises -- 1. Preventing Banking Crises / 2. Regulatory Efforts to Prevent Banking Crises / 3. The Role of the International Monetary Fund / Part II. Bank failures in Latin American countries -- 4. The Argentine Banking Crisis: Observations and Lessons / 5. Lessons Learned from the Chilean Experience / 6. Lessons from Recent Global Bank Failures: The Case of Brazil / Part III. Bank failures in transition economies -- 7. Restructuring Distressed Banks in Transition Economies: Lessons from Central Europe and Ukraine / 8. Preventing Banking Crises by Supporting the Truth / Part IV. Bank failures in industrial countries -- 9. Lessons from Bank Failures in the United States / 10. The Banking Crisis in Japan / 11. Bank Failures in Scandinavia / 12. Banking Disasters: Causes and Preventative Measures, Lessons Derived from the U.S. Experience / 13. The Case for International Banking Standards / Part V. Commonalities, mistakes, and lessons -- 14. Global Banking Crises: Commonalities, Mistakes, and Lessons / 15. Deposit Insurance / 16. Understanding and Preventing Bank Crises / 18. BaiA crte: CommonaUlies, MUlakes, and Lessons Viewed from a South Asian Standpoint / Part VI. Preventing future banking crises: What can and should be done? -- 19. Suggestions for Improvements / 20. Building a Better and Safer Banking System in Latin America and the Caribbean / 21. Bank Restructuring Revisited / 22. What Can and Should Be Done to Prevent Future Financial Crises? / Part VII. Conference overview -- 23. Summary / 24. Concluding Thoughts / Contributors, 349 -- Conference Agenda, 361 -- Conference Participants, 365 -- Index, 371. Jejfrey A. Frankel, 3 -- Michael H. Moskow, 13 -- Karin Lissakers, 27 -- Danny M. Leipziger, 35 -- Jarge Marshall, 43 -- Paul L. Bydalek, 53 -- Michael Borish and Fernando Montes-Negret, 69 -- Ivan Remsik, 127 -- James R. Barth and Robert E. Litan, 133 -- Thomas F. Cargill, Michael M. Hutchison, and Takatoshi Ito, 173 -- Sigbjem Atle Berg, 195 -- Richard J. Herring, 209 -- Morris Goldstein, 237 -- Douglas D. Evanoff, 249 -- Gillian G. Holway García, 255 -- Edward J. Kane, 269 -- John Williamson, 287 -- Joseph Bisignano, 295 -- E. Gerald Corrigan, 303 -- Andrew Sheng, 325 -- Edwin M. Truman, 333 -- George G. Kaufman, 341 -- Gerard Caprio, Jr., 345 --