This timely collection of papers probes into the major issues that are at the heart of our current financial market crises. The coverage of banking topics include the changing nature of intra and inter-bank markets, bank lending behavior, risk and risk-taking, the role of liquidity, return and...

Key Features:Studies the key role of bank lending as possible triggers of financial crisesExamines whether the risk implied by VAR measures is adequately priced in equity returns of financial institutionsProvides comparative case study on international Joint Ventures and the value creation...