New Financial Instruments and Institutions: Opportunities and Policy Challenges
By (Author) Yasuyuki Fuchita
Edited by Robert E. Litan
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Brookings Institution
21st June 2007
United States
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Investment and securities
332.10952
Paperback
240
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
227g
New financial instrumentssuch as structured financial products and exchange-traded fundsand new financial institutionsincluding hedge funds and private-equity fundspresent opportunities as well as policy and regulatory challenges in U.S. and Japanese financial markets. This book presents cutting-edge research from experts in academia and the financial industry on new instruments and new institutions while contrasting their developments in the different countries.
Yasuyuki Fuchita is a senior managing director at the Nomura Institute of Capital Markets Research in Tokyo. He is coeditor of After the Crash: The Future of Finance (2010) and Prudent Lending Restored (2009), both published by Brookings. Robert E. Litan is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution and vice president for research and policy at the Kauffman Foundation. Among his many books is Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity (Yale University Press, 2007), written with William J. Baumol and Carl J. Schramm.