Contemporary Financial Intermediation, Second Edition, brings a unique analytical approach to the subject of banks and banking. This completely revised and updated edition expands the scope of the typical bank management course by addressing all types of deposit-type financial institutions, and by explaining the why of intermediation rather than simply describing institutions, regulations, and market phenomena. This analytic approach strikes at the heart of financial intermediation by explaining why financial intermediaries exist and what they do. Specific regulations, economies, and policies will change, but the underlying philosophical foundations remain the same. This approach enables students to understand the foundational principles and to apply them to whatever context they encounter as professionals. This book is the perfect liaison between the microeconomics realm of information economics and the real world of banking and financial intermediation. This book is recommended for advanced undergraduates and MSc in Finance students with courses on commercial bank management, banking, money and banking, and financial intermediation.
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<li>Completely undated edition of a classic banking text</li>
<li>Authored by experts on financial intermediation theory, only textbook that takes this approach situating banks within microeconomic theory</li>
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Contemporary Financial Intermediation

Business & Money

Thakor, Anjan V.

Greenbaum, Stuart I.

Economics

Academic Press

Defining an organization by its growth strategy enables business leaders to make better decisions about the ways their companies compete. Anjan Thakor’s four categories of growth, which he arranges into the Competing Values Framework, delivers methods for developing strategies grounded in internal cultures and industry goals. Written for professionals, this book provides easy access to concepts in fields as diverse as corporate strategy, finance, organizational behavior, change management, and leadership.

The Four Colors of Business Growth

In Contemporary Financial Intermediation, Third Edition, Greenbaum, Thakor and Boot offer a distinctive approach to financial markets and institutions, presenting an integrated portrait that puts information at the core. Instead of simply naming and describing markets, regulations, and institutions as competing books do, the authors explore the endless subtlety and plasticity of financial institutions and credit markets. This edition has six new chapters and increased, enhanced pedagogical supplements. The book is ideal for anyone working in the financial sector, presenting professionals with a comprehensive understanding of the reasons why markets, institutions, and regulators act as they do. Readers will find an unmatched, thorough discussion of the world's financial markets and how they function.

Boot, Arnoud W. A.

Contemporary Financial Intermediation, 4th Edition by Greenbaum, Thakor, and Boot continues to offer a distinctive approach to the study of financial markets and institutions by presenting an integrated portrait that puts information and economic reasoning at the core. Instead of primarily naming and describing markets, regulations, and institutions as is common, Contemporary Financial Intermediation explores the subtlety, plasticity and fragility of financial institutions and credit markets. In this new edition every chapter has been updated and pedagogical supplements have been enhanced. For the financial sector, the best preprofessional training explains the reasons why markets, institutions, and regulators evolve they do, why we suffer recurring financial crises occur and how we typically react to them. Our textbook demands more in terms of quantitative skills and analysis, but its ability to teach about the forces shaping the financial world is unmatched.

Banks and other financial institutions play a fundamental and yet divisive role in the health of any economy. As lenders they are important to everyone seeking a mortgage or a car loan. As investors they are essential gears of economic progress. And yet when crises hit and the economy tumbles, they are vilified. Is it possible for the banking and financial sectors to both be crisis-free and sustain economic growth that benefits everyone? This is the central question that Anjan Thakor, one of the leading analysts of banking and financial institutions, takes up in this insightful overview of the purpose of banking. He starts with the foundations of banks as safe-keepers of assets and providers of liquidity crucial to a dynamic economy. They manage risk, monitor borrowers, create trust, are providers of information, and facilitate innovation. And yet notwithstanding these essential purposes, the reputation of banks has suffered tremendously in the wake of crises that have harmed the financial sector, the real economy, and many people. The reason, Thakor argues, is that banks have lost sight of their higher purpose, which is tied to their role as safe-keepers of assets and creators of value. These essential economic functions should drive banks' culture, capital structure, and customer relationships. Credit ratings cannot replace relationships, leverage is no substitute for judgment, and the pursuit of profit should not come at the expense of prudence. Thakor shows that while governments can play an important role in creating the environment of banks, including through microprudential and macroprudential regulation, ultimately it is up to banks to improve their culture and align it with their purpose in society.

The Purpose of Banking: Transforming Banking for Stability and Economic Growth

Oxford University Press

The Economics of Higher Purpose: Eight Counterintuitive Steps for Creating a Purpose-Driven Organization [Standard Large Print 16 Pt Edition]

Quinn, Robert E.

Human Resources

ReadHowYouWant

Tells the story of a young entrepreneur who uses the Value Sphere to build a lemonade business into a publicly traded, global powerhouse. The story illustrates crucial concepts of strategy, resource allocation, performance metrics, and people and organizational culture. Discussion encompasses areas including risk and value, project selection criteria, training, acquiring a firm, and the cost of capital. Boquist and co-authors Todd Milbourn and Anjan V. Thakor teach finance at Indiana U., Washington U., and U. of Michigan, respectively. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Value Sphere: Secrets of Creating and Retaining Shareholder Wealth

Boquist, John A.

Milbourn, Todd T.

Business Culture

Value Integration Associates

Competing Values Leadership: Second Edition (New Horizons in Management series)

A key source for understanding the Competing Values Framework, one of the most widely used and highly cited frameworks in the world.This book serves as the key source for understanding the Competing Values Framework, one of the most widely used and highly cited frameworks in the world. The authors, who have been at the foundation of developing, applying and studying this framework for over three decades, explain how it helps foster successful leadership, improve organizational effectiveness and promote value creation. 
It would be unusual for a framework as powerful and predictive as the Competing Values Framework to remain unchallenged and absent of criticism. In addition to updating the examples and references, this second edition provides a new chapter motivated by recent criticisms of the framework. In this chapter, the authors address these concerns and provide empirical evidence of the continuing effectiveness of the model.
This book is widely applicable to a number of fields, including financial strategy, culture change, human resource management, leadership roles, and organizational change. Both academics and business leaders will find it to be an illuminating and useful reference.

DeGraff, Jeff

Cameron, Kim S.

Management & Leadership

Edward Elgar Publishing

Competing Values Leadership (New Horizons in Management series)

This third edition of Competing Values Leadershipserves as the key source for understanding and using the Competing Values Framework, one of the most widely used and highly cited frameworks in the world for understanding human behavior, leadership, and organizations. The authors of the framework, who have been at the foundation of developing, applying, and studying this framework for more than four decades, explain how it helps foster successful leadership, innovation, culture change, financial performance, organizational effectiveness, and value creation. In addition to explaining why the Competing Values Framework is among the most important frameworks in the history of business, this edition addresses some criticisms of the framework and provides empirical evidence for its validity, reliability, and usefulness. The authors also provide practical tools and actions that can assist any organization in improving its performance. This book is widely applicable to several fields, including financial strategy, culture change, human resource management, leadership roles, and organizational change. Both academics and business leaders will find it to be an illuminating and useful tool and reference. It has also proven to be a valuable resource in executive education programs.

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Contemporary Financial Intermediation

The Four Colors of Business Growth

Contemporary Financial Intermediation

Contemporary Financial Intermediation

The Purpose of Banking: Transforming Banking for Stability and Economic Growth

The Economics of Higher Purpose: Eight Counterintuitive Steps for Creating a Purpose-Driven Organization [Standard Large Print 16 Pt Edition]

The Value Sphere: Secrets of Creating and Retaining Shareholder Wealth

Competing Values Leadership: Second Edition (New Horizons in Management series)

Competing Values Leadership: Second Edition (New Horizons in Management series)

Competing Values Leadership (New Horizons in Management series)