International Capital Markets: Developments, Prospects, and Key Policy Issues, 1996

Publication Date:

September 17, 1996

Summary:

Provides a comprehensive survey of recent developments in international financial markets, including developments in emerging capital markets, bond markets, major currency markets, and derivative markets. The report focuses on efforts by the major industrial countries to strengthen the management of financial risk and prundential oversight over the international banking system. It also critically evaluates existing mechanisms for international cooperation of financial supervision and regulation and proposes the development of international banking standards.

Series:

World Economic and Financial Surveys No. 1996/004

Subject:

Notes:

1986 to date. Earlier issues of this title from 1981 were published as part of the Occasional Paper series; see Occasional Paper, Nos. 1, 7, 14, 23, 31, and 43. 1993 issue published in two parts under the title International Capital Markets. Part I subtitled Exchange Rate Management and International Capital Flows; Part II subtitled Systematic Issues in International Finance. From 1986 to 1991 issued under the title International Capital Markets: Developments and Prospects.

English

Publication Date:

September 17, 1996

ISBN/ISSN:

9781557756091/0258-7440

Stock No:

WEOEA0061996

Pages:

171

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