Financial Strategies and Public Policies Banking, Insurance and Industry [Paperback]

Presents the policies and strategies of a wide-ranging group of ministerial personalities, central bankers, regulators and chief or senior executives of major financial and industrial groups. Their vision of the future is based on their high-level experience.Strategies of industrial enterprises and of international finance, Walter V. Shipley; highlights on BP's new distribution of functions, David Simon; limitations to merging lines of business, Andre Levy-Lang; changes in Japanese financial system and intermediary functions of banks, Hideo Ishihara; the insurance industry in the 1990s, John Greig; global consolidation of the financial services industry, David R. Morgan; US financial situation and banking system, David W. Mullins Jr; Competition - a new entry in the regulators' dictionary, Markus Lusser; challenges of monetary/financial regulatory policies since the 1980s, Shijuro Ogata; perspectives in monetary policies, Stefan Schonberg; globalization of securities markets and comprehensive financial services reform in the United States, Mary Ann Gadziala; the regulation of financial conglomerates (in particular the regulation of the contagion risk ), Alain Hirsch; economic reform in Czechoslovakia and the role of foreign assistance, Vaclav Klaus; the financing of the German unity, Manfred Overhaus; non-debt-creating transfers of financial resources during the 1990s, Jose Angel Gurria Trevino; do banks have a role to play in foreign non-debt-creating transfers of financial resources?, Walter G. Frehner; strategies of a multinational industrial group, Christian Dor; financial needs of a major corporation, Reto F. Domeniconi; international capital markets, Hans-Joerg Rudloff; the European financial space and Switzerland, Jean-Paul Chapuis; EEC regulation in the financial services sector, Jean-Pierre Fevre; coping with uncertainty in the financial sector, Zuhayr Mikdashi.