The Financial Systems of Industrial Countries Evidence from Financial Accounts /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: De Bonis, Riccardo (Editor), Pozzolo, Alberto Franco (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Subjects: Finance.; Business.; Management science.; Macroeconomics.; Finance, general.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.; Business and Management, general.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the financial systems of major industrialized countries using the statistical framework of the financial accounts. After a discussion of how economists agreed to create a framework to monitor the financial linkages between surplus and deficit sectors, the...

Table of Contents:

• The origins of financial accounts in the United States and Italy: Copeland, Baffi and the institutions
• Private sector debt matters too: theoretical perspectives on credit and the building of financial accounts
• Household wealth in a cross-country perspective
• Should household wealth and Government accounts include future pension rights
• Financial sector dynamics and firms’ capital structure
• Convergence of financial structures in Europe: an application of factorial matrix analysis
• The effects of monetary policy in the euro erea: results from the flow of funds
• Imbalances in household, firm, public and foreign sector balance sheets in the 2000s.