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Investment banking institutions, politics, and law

Why have investment banks played such a dominant role in the markets in recent years? By asking what investment banks contribute to economic performance, the authors provide a framework for understanding their historical evolution, economic power, and periodic bouts of conflict with the state.
Print Book, English, cop. 2007
Oxford University Press, Oxford, cop. 2007
1 vol. (IX-341 p.) : tabl., couv. ill. ; 24 cm
9780199296576, 9780199544189, 019929657X, 0199544182
494579388
1. Introduction ; 2. Institutional Theory ; 3. An Institutional Theory of Investment Banking ; 4. Investment Banking Origins ; 5. The Rise of the Investment Bank ; 6. Investment Banking in the Age of Laissez-Faire ; 7. Leviathan and the Investment Banks ; 8. The Modern Industrial Revolution ; 9. Inside the Investment Bank ; 10. What Next?
Autre tirage : 2008
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