Contemporary Financial Intermediation (Academic Press Advanced Finance) - Hardcover

Greenbaum, Stuart I.; Thakor, Anjan V.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0122990536 ISBN 13: 9780122990533

Publisher: Academic Press, 2007

Synopsis

Contemporary Financial Intermediation, Second Edition, brings a unique analytical approach to the subject of banks and banking.

This completely revised and updated edition expands the scope of the typical bank management course by addressing all types of deposit-type financial institutions, and by explaining the why of intermediation rather than simply describing institutions, regulations, and market phenomena. This analytic approach strikes at the heart of financial intermediation by explaining why financial intermediaries exist and what they do. Specific regulations, economies, and policies will change, but the underlying philosophical foundations remain the same. This approach enables students to understand the foundational principles and to apply them to whatever context they encounter as professionals.

This book is the perfect liaison between the microeconomics realm of information economics and the real world of banking and financial intermediation.

This book is recommended for advanced undergraduates and MSc in Finance students with courses on commercial bank management, banking, money and banking, and financial intermediation.

• Completely undated edition of a classic banking text
• Authored by experts on financial intermediation theory, only textbook that takes this approach situating banks within microeconomic theory

About this title

About the Authors

Stuart Greenbaum is a leading authority on banks. Formerly dean of the John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, he spent twenty years at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, where he was the Director of the Banking Research Center and the Norman Strunk Distinguished Professor of Financial Institutions. Three times he was appointed to the Federal Savings and Loan Advisory Council and was twice officially commended for extraordinary public service. He is founding editor of the Journal of Financial Intermediation.

As the John E. Simon Professor of Finance and Senior Associate Dean of Programs at the Olin School of Business, Washington University, St. Louis, Anjan Thakor works in both academia and the business world. Prior to joining the Olin School, he was Edward J. Frey Professor of Banking and Finance at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, where he also served as chairman of the Finance area. He has worked with many companies, including Whirlpool Corporation, Allision Engine Co., Citigroup, RR Donnelley, Dana Corporation, Anheuser-Busch, Zenith Corporation, Lincoln National Corporation, and J.P. Morgan.

From the Back Cover

Business/Finance
Contemporary Financial Intermediation, 2nd Edition

Stuart I. Greenbaum and Anjan V. Thakor

In Contemporary Financial Intermediation, Second Edition, Stuart Greenbaum and Anjan Thakor bring a unique analytical approach to the subject of banks and banking in this completely revised and updated second edition. The authors expand the scope of the typical bank management course by addressing all types of deposit-type financial institutions and by explaining the “why” of intermediation rather than simply describing institutions, regulations, and market phenomena. This analytic approach strikes at the heart of financial intermediation by explaining why financial intermediaries exist and what they do. Specific regulations, economies, and policies will change, but the underlying philosophical foundations remain the same. This approach enables students to understand the foundational principles and to apply them to whatever context they encounter as professionals.

Greenbaum and Thakor once again bring their internationally recognized banking expertise to this second edition, making it a must read for finance and banking students in courses such as Financial Markets and Institutions, Banking, and Money and Banking.

Stuart I. Greenbaum is Bank of America Professor of Managerial Leadership and former Dean, John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
Anjan V. Thakor is John E. Simon Professor of Finance and Senior Associate Dean of Programs, Olin School of Business, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0122990536
• ISBN 13: 9780122990533
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 672