Who Pays for Bank Insolvency?

How to avoid taxpayers paying for bank failures and banking crises? This book provides a proposal and a critique by twelve independent experts. It is addressed particularly to the threat posed in Europe by having large international banks, a history of bailouts and limited means of resolving any fut...

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Main Authors: Mayes, David G., Liuksila, Aarno (Author), Beck, Thorsten (Author), Blowers, Bethany (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2004, 2004
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:How to avoid taxpayers paying for bank failures and banking crises? This book provides a proposal and a critique by twelve independent experts. It is addressed particularly to the threat posed in Europe by having large international banks, a history of bailouts and limited means of resolving any future banking crises. It shows how political imperatives and legal constraints currently result in economic losses in many countries round the world
Physical Description:XIV, 390 p online resource
ISBN:9780230523913