Financial capability, the financial crisis and trust in news media

Financial Structure and Financial Crisis

For many years the economies of South East Asia were regarded as models for economic development. The four tigers, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, grew from low levels of income per head to among the highest in the world in a few decades. The newly industrializing economies of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand had also started to grow at an extremely rapid rate. The Philippines had...

The effect of the financial crisis on systemic trust

Financial market crisis and financial market channel

The Financial Crisis

AcADEMIC LIBRARIES are in crisis, and it appears that the larger the library, the larger the crisis. The major need for charting a course to a successful future is definition of fruitful objectives. Such objectives as library support of and coordination with its institution's programs are no longer sufficient; these rationalized goals of the past are inadequate for the future. To establish usef...

Deregulation and the Financial Crisis∗

The recent pronouncement by Sandy Weill, the former Chairman and CEO of Citigroup, that the separation between commercial banking and securities underwriting should be reinstituted has reignited the debate about the role of bank deregulation as a cause of the subprime crisis. In particular, Mr. Weill’s comments have been taken as evidence that the 1999 repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, containe...