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Banks, Bankers, and Bankruptcies Under Crisis

Understanding Failure and Mergers During the Great Recession

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  1. Dimitris N. Chorafas
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Banks “Too Big to Fail”

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    Pages 1-22

  3. Banks and Regulators

    • Dimitris N. Chorafas
    Pages 23-42

  4. Banking Practices and the Evolution of Trading Rules

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    Pages 43-64

  5. Euroland’s Banking Union and Its Stress Tests

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    Pages 65-86

  6. Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns

    • Dimitris N. Chorafas
    Pages 87-108

  7. American International Group

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    Pages 109-126

  8. Federal National Mortgage Association and Federal Loan Mortgage Association

    • Dimitris N. Chorafas
    Pages 127-150

  9. Citigroup

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    Pages 151-171

  10. British Banks at the Edge

    • Dimitris N. Chorafas
    Pages 173-192

  11. Euroland’s Banks

    • Dimitris N. Chorafas
    Pages 193-216

  12. The Challenges Japan Faced with Its Banking Industry

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    Pages 217-234

  13. Japanese Banks That Bled in a River of Red Ink

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    Pages 235-252

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 253-269
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Banks, Bankers, and Bankruptcies Under Crisis uses case studies of failed banks, banks that would have failed without taxpayer intervention, and in some cases banks obliged to merge under government pressure, to better understand global banking today.

About the author

Dimitris N. Chorafas served on the faculty of the Catholic University of America and as Visiting Professor at Washington State University, George Washington University, University of Vermont, University of Florida, and Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, as well as the University of Alberta, Technical University of Karlsruhe, Ecole d'Etudes Industrielles de l'Université de Genève, Ecole Polytechnic Fédérale de Lausanne, Polish Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences. More than 8,000 banking, industrial and government executives participated in his seminars in the United States, England, Germany, Italy, other European countries, Asia and Latin America. Chorafas is the author of 160 books, translated into several languages world-wide.

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