Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law, Volumen10OUP Oxford, 2007 - 341 páginas Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law provides an economic rationale for the dominant role of investment banks in the capital markets, and uses it to explain both the historical evolution of the investment banking industry and also recent changes to its organization. Although investment decisions rely upon price-relevant information, it is impossible to establish property rights over it and hence it is very hard to coordinate its exchange. The authors arguethat investment banks help to resolve this problem by managing "information marketplaces," within which extra-legal institutions support the production and dissemination of information that is important to investors. Reputations and relationships are more important in fulfilling this role than financialcapital.The authors substantiate their theory with reference to the industry's evolution during the last three centuries. They show how investment banking networks were formed, and identify the informal contracts that they supported. This historical development points to tensions between the relational contracting of investment banks and the regulatory impulses of the State, thus providing some explanation for the periodic large-scale State intervention in the operation of capital markets. Theirtheory also provides a technological explanation for the massive restructuring of the capital markets in recent decades, which the authors argue can be used to think about the likely future direction of the investment banking industry. |
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... ability of individuals to combine to conduct busi- ness activities , and hence undermined their property rights over their ideas . And , because the power to write charters was vested in the leg- islature , it resulted in ...
... ability of individuals to combine to conduct busi- ness activities , and hence undermined their property rights over their ideas . And , because the power to write charters was vested in the leg- islature , it resulted in ...
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... ability to contract is closely bound up with the strength of property rights : an agent's ability to alienate his control over an asset is a part of his property rights . If his ability to commit to transfer control is circumscribed by ...
... ability to contract is closely bound up with the strength of property rights : an agent's ability to alienate his control over an asset is a part of his property rights . If his ability to commit to transfer control is circumscribed by ...
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... ability to commit their partners may have reflected the contemporary technological difficulties of publicizing the precise details of a partnership agreement.13 But it seems more likely that it reflected a general unwillingness among ...
... ability to commit their partners may have reflected the contemporary technological difficulties of publicizing the precise details of a partnership agreement.13 But it seems more likely that it reflected a general unwillingness among ...
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Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law, Volumen10 Alan D. Morrison,William J. Wilhelm, Jr. Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law Alan D. Morrison,William J. Wilhelm Jr. Vista previa limitada - 2008 |
Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law Alan D. Morrison,William J. Wilhelm, Jr. Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |
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