"The focus of the global economy is increasingly shifted towards China and emerging countries. However, despite their high growth prospects, emerging economies often lack the sound capital market and corporate governance systems necessary to promote the efficient allocation of financial...

1. Financial reform in Australia -- 2. Price stabilization, the banking crisis and financial reform in Brazil -- 3. Financial reform in Canada : past, present and future -- 4. Financial system reform in China -- 5. Financial reform in Germany -- 6. Financial reform in Hong Kong -- 7. Financial...

International Insurance Markets: Between Global Dynamics and Local Contingencies—An Introduction -- The United States Insurance Market: Characteristics and Trends -- The Japanese Insurance Market and Companies: Recent Trends -- The UK Insurance Industry—Structure and Performance -- The...

China's hybrid banks -- Culture matters -- Leninism and pragmatism: of China's Communist Party -- Transformation from bursars to bankers -- Bankers -- Systems -- Power of the state -- Financial structure, deep but narrow -- Coming in and going out -- China's banks, sui generis? -- Collapsing or...