1st Edition

Banking and Monetary Policies in a Changing Financial Environment A regulatory approach

By Wassim Shahin, Elias El-Achkar Copyright 2017
286 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

286 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

286 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The 21st century witnessed major changes in the financial environment surrounding bank regulators and banks. Banking and Monetary Policies in a Changing Financial Environment delves into three of these developments and challenges. The first change in the financial environment relates to the rise in the number and sophistication of financial and economic crimes which shaped the... Read more
  1. Introduction
  2. Part 1: Banking Regulation to Combat the Rise in Financial and Economic Crimes

  3. The Changing Regulatory Environment Governing Financial and Economic Crimes
  4. Compliance of Worldwide Banking Systems with Evolving International Regulatory and Supervisory Requirements: Facts, Challenges and Implications
  5. Part 2: New Policies in the Wake of the Latest Financial Crisis

  6. Causes and Origins of Banking Crises: Review and Critique of Theory and Evidence
  7. Bank Lending During the Financial Crisis of 2008: An Empirical Investigation
  8. Corporate Governance in the Banking Industry and Basel III Challenges and Implications
  9. Part 3: Central Banks in the New Era of Quantitative Easing, Monetary Unions without Fiscal Unions and the Holdings of Foreign Reserves

  10. Monetary Policy in an Era of Quantitative Easing
  11. Monetary Policy in an Era of Monetary Unions, and Central Banks’ Holdings of Foreign Reserves
  12. Concluding Remarks and Policy Implications

Biography

Wassim Shahin is Professor of Business Economics and Assistant Provost for special external projects at the Lebanese American University in Lebanon and served as the founding dean of the school of business in the same institution on its Byblos campus from 1996 to 2011.

Elias El-Achkar is Director of Research and Statistics at the Association of Banks in Lebanon and a university lecturer.