Designing Financial Systems for East Asia and Japan (Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415322545 ISBN 13: 9780415322546

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

This book deliberates on some urgent issues that face the new architecture of the financial systems in Japan and East Asia. The book is broken into three sections:
*The role of financial institutions and markets in economic development in Japan and East Asia
*Issues in corporate governance and new technologies
*The designing of efficient financial systems
With contributions from leading Asian economics experts based around the world, this book will be useful to both scholars and professionals with an interest in financial systems, corporate financing and governance.

About this title

Synopsis:

A distinctive feature of the last decade has been the drastic change in the financial systems of the world due to globalization and innovation. The changes have resulted in more market-oriented systems and have required re-designing of existing financial institutions and markets, corporate governance and regulatory frameworks in order to achieve sustainable economic development. The East Asian crisis and prolonged depression in Japan have heightened the need to redesign financial systems in the region. This book deliberates on some urgent issues that face the new architecture of the financial systems in Japan and East Asia. The book is broken into three sections: The role of financial institutions and markets in economic development in Japan and East Asia Issues in corporate governance and new technologies The designing of efficient financial systems With contributions from leading Asian economics experts based around the world, this book will be useful to both scholars and professionals with an interest in financial systems, corporate financing and governance.

About the Author:

Joseph P. H. Fan is Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Masaharu Hanazaki is Associate Professor at the Center for Economic Institutions (CEI), Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan. Juro Teranishi is Professor at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0415322545
• ISBN 13: 9780415322546
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Fan Joseph, Hanazaki Masaharu, Teranishi Juro