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The Impact of GAAP on Financial Analysis: Interpretations and Applications for Commercial and Investment Banking » Read Now
by Alexander John Sannella. 466 pgs.
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Firm Reputation and Insider Trading: The Investment Banking Industry, in Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics » Read Now
by Garbriel G. Ramirez, Kenneth K. Yung, Jan Tin. 2 pgs.

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...Reputation and Insider Trading: The Investment Banking Industry by Garbriel...examines insider trading of the investment banking industry to determine whether...Hayes...
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The Limits of Bank Convergence: Don't Bet the Bank on the Idea That Investment Banks Can Survive the Current Market Only If They Merge with Commercial Ones, in The McKinsey Quarterly » Read Now
by Alastair J. Cairns, Jonathan A. Davidson, Michal L. Kisilevitz. 12 pgs.

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...to the lucrative world of US investment banking. In 2000, when Congress repealed...offering both commercial- and investment-banking services, the final barrier...Spurred on...
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Struggle and Survival on Wall Street: The Economics of Competition among Securities Firms (Chap. 12 "Investment Banking") » Read Now
by John O. Matthews. 276 pgs.

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Struggle and Survival on Wall Street provides a comprehensive economic analysis of competition between broker-dealers or securities firms. It uses the industrial organization approach which focuses on the interaction of the industry's structure, conduct, and performance to argue that the driving...
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Struggle and Survival on Wall Street provides a comprehensive economic analysis of competition between broker-dealers or securities firms. It uses the industrial organization approach which focuses on the interaction of the industry's structure, conduct, and performance to argue that the driving force of competition is through the development of new financial products. The development of new products forces firms to integrate these new services into their existing organization. Matthews argues that the firms which successfully integrate and adapt to an expanded product line grow in size and importance relative to those which do not. He also suggests that the Securities and Exchange Commission needs to adapt to the growing services offered by securities firms by providing a framework in which organizational change can take place.
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Universal Banking: International Comparisons and Theoretical Perspectives (Chap. 3 "The Separation between Commercial and Investment Banking in the United States") » Read Now
by Jordi Canals. 362 pgs.

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The deregulation and disintermediation process, the globalization of financial markets, the emergence of new competitors, and the introduction of new information technologies have brought about profound changes in the banking industry. Banks have lost market share and show decreasing economic...
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The deregulation and disintermediation process, the globalization of financial markets, the emergence of new competitors, and the introduction of new information technologies have brought about profound changes in the banking industry. Banks have lost market share and show decreasing economic performance. In the wake of this Professor Canals addresses several important questions: are universal banks bound to disappear? What is the role of universal banks in modern financial markets? What should banks' strategic reactions be to those changes in the industry?
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Universal Banking in the United States: What Could We Gain? What Could We Lose? ("Securities and Investment Banking Activities" p. 162) » Read Now
by Anthony Saunders, Ingo Walter. 276 pgs.

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In 1933 and 1956, the United States sharply limited the kinds of securities, commercial, and insurance activities banks could engage in. These regulations remain in place despite profound changes in the economic environment, in the structure of the national and international financial markets, and...
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In 1933 and 1956, the United States sharply limited the kinds of securities, commercial, and insurance activities banks could engage in. These regulations remain in place despite profound changes in the economic environment, in the structure of the national and international financial markets, and in technology. This book evaluates the case for and against eliminating these barriers. The authors study the consequences of bank regulation in the US as it relates to competition in international financial markets. They examine universal banking systems in other countries, especially Germany, Switzerland, and the UK, and how they work. They then apply the lessons to US banking, paying particular attention to the benchmarks of stability, equity, efficiency, and competitiveness against which the performance of national financial systems should be measured. They propose a level playing field on which any number of forms of organization can grow in the financial services sector, in which universal banking is one of the permitted structures, and where regulation is linked to function.
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Power and Conflicts of Interest in Professional Firms: Evidence from Investment Banking, in Administrative Science Quarterly » Read Now
by Mathew L.A. Hayward, Warren Boeker. 22 pgs.

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...professional firms: evidence from investment banking. by Mathew L.A. Hayward...CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN INVESTMENT BANKING There are many models of...and conflict...
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Monopolies in America: Empire Builders and Their Enemies, from Jay Gould to Bill Gates ("discussion of investment banking begins on p. 198) » Read Now
by Charles R. Geisst. 358 pgs.

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In this incisive and comprehensive history, business historian Charles Geisst traces the rise of monopolies from the railroad era to today's computer software empires. The history of monopolies has been dominated by strong and charismatic personalities. Geisst tells the stories behind the...
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In this incisive and comprehensive history, business historian Charles Geisst traces the rise of monopolies from the railroad era to today's computer software empires. The history of monopolies has been dominated by strong and charismatic personalities. Geisst tells the stories behind the individuals--from John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie to Harold Geneen and Bill Gates--who forged these business empires with genius, luck, and an often ruthless disregard for fair competition. He also analyzes the viewpoints of their equally colorful critics, from Louis Brandeis to Ralph Nader. These figures enliven the narrative, offering insight into how large businesses accumulate power. Viewed as either godsends or pariahs, monopolies have sparked endless debate and often conflicting responses from Washington. Monopolies in America surveys the important pieces of legislation and judicial rulings that have emerged since the post-Civil War era, and proposes that American antitrust activity has had less to do with hard economics than with political opinion. What was considered a monopoly in 1911 when Standard Oil and American Tobacco were broken up was not applied again when the Supreme Court refused to dismantle U.S. Steel in 1919. Charting the growth of big business in the United States, Geisst reaches the startling conclusion that the mega-mergers that have dominated Wall Street headlines for the past fifteen years are not simply a trend, but a natural consequence of American capitalism. Intelligent and informative, Monopolies in America skillfully chronicles the course of American big business, and allows us to see how the debate on monopolies will be shaped in the twentieth-first century.
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Hello Sweetheart, Get Me Mergers and Acquisitions: The Rise of Steven Rattner, in Washington Monthly (1986) » Read Now
by Philip Weiss. 12 pgs.

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...readers. Most attractive was investment banking. The field had lured a stream...especially in Manhattan, had made investment banking glamorous in much the same...raised the...
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Wall Street: A History: From Its Beginnings to the Fall of Enron » Read Now
by Charles R. Geisst. 430 pgs.

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In the seven years since the publication of the first edition of Wall Street, America's financial industry has undergone a series of wrenching events that have dramatically changed the nation's economic landscape. The bull market of the 1990's came to a close, ushering in the end of the dot com...
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In the seven years since the publication of the first edition of Wall Street, America's financial industry has undergone a series of wrenching events that have dramatically changed the nation's economic landscape. The bull market of the 1990's came to a close, ushering in the end of the dot com boom, a record number of mergers occurred, and accounting scandals in companies like Enron and WorldCom shook the financial industry to its core. In this wide-ranging volume, financial historian Charles Geisst provides the first history of Wall Street, explaining how a small, concentrated pocket of lower Manhattan came to have such enormous influence in national and world affairs. In this updated edition, Geisst sums up the recent turbulence that has threatened America's financial industry. He shows how in 1997 thirty NASDAQ market makers paid a record $1.3 billion fine for price irregularities in stocks. He makes sense of the closing of the bull market, and explains a major change in the accounting rules for mergers that caused monumental losses for companies like AOL Time Warner. And he recounts how in the aftermath of the speculative fever that swept Wall Street in the 1990's, the scandals at Enron, Tyco, Worldcom, and Conseco represent a last gasp of mergermania and a fallout from a bubble-like market. Wall Street is at once the story of the street itself, from the days when the wall was merely a defensive barricade built by Peter Stuyvesant, to the modern billion-dollar computer-driven colossus of today. In a broader sense it is an engaging economic history of the United States, the role Wall Street played in making America the most powerful economy in the world, and the many challenges to that role it has faced in recent years.
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