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Financial Market Regulation
Type: NFI Books
Topic: Legislation & Regulation
Author: Tatom, John A. (Ed.)
Date: February 2011
Description:

2011, XVIII, 240 p. 6 illus., Hardcover, Springer/Networks Financial Institute

ISBN: 978-1-4419-6636-0

What role should regulation play in financial markets? What have been the ramifications of financial regulation? To answer these and other questions regarding the efficacy of legislation on financial markets, this book examines the impact of the Gramm Leach Bliley Act (GLBA), also called the Financial Modernization Act of 1999, which fundamentally changed the financial landscape in the United States.

Improving Financial Literacy and Reshaping Financial Behavior: Research Papers and Perspectives
Type: NFI Books
Topic: Financial Literacy
Author: Networks Financial Institute (Editor)
Date: November 2009
Description:

This conference brought together our work in promoting financial literacy and in thought leadership. NFI is a primary source for objective and applied research within the financial services industry, and, as such, aims to promote and improve academic research on financial literacy and improving financial behavior...

In Search of Effective Corporate Governance
Type: NFI Books
Topic: Industry performance and regulation
Author: Networks Financial Institute (Editor)
Date: November 2007
Description:

Government regulation of corporate governance has taken major and controversial strides forward since the crisis of corporate governance and scandals that contributed to the high-tech boom of the 1990s...

The Health Care Financing Bomb
Type: NFI Books
Topic: Health Care Reform Policy
Author: Networks Financial Institute (Editor)
Date: August 2006
Description:

Networks Financial Institute sponsored a Financial Forum, The Health Care Financing Bomb: Where's the Money (or the Solution)?, on August 29, 2006 in Indianapolis to discuss this problem and possible solutions to the health care funding debacle. Leading national experts presented papers on the extent, source and possible solutions for the current and future problem of outsized spending and financing of health care.

Assessing Adult Financial Literacy and Why it Matters
Type: NFI Books
Topic: Financial literacy
Author: Networks Financial Institute (Editor)
Date: March 2006
Description:

This volume is based largely on papers prepared for a Financial Forum held in March 2006 in Indianapolis. This volume includes five articles by panelists who attended the meeting: Zvi Bodie, Professor of Finance and Economics at Boston University School of Management; John P. Caskey, Professor of Economics at Swarthmore College; Robert I. Lerman, Professor of Economics at the American University and Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute (his paper is co-authored by Elizabeth Bell, also of the Urban Institute); Annamaria Lusardi, Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College; and Lewis Mandell, Professor of Finance and Managerial Economics at the State University of New York, Buffalo.
These experts explore the essentials of and alarming state of financial literacy, how to assess it, what we know about how to improve it, the effectiveness of financial education...

Is Your Bubble About to Burst?
Type: NFI Books
Topic: Industry performance and regulation
Author: Networks Financial Institute (Editor)
Date: October 2005
Description:

NFI's inaugural Financial Forum, held in October 2005, addressed the outsized increases in U.S. housing prices since 1995. Panelists question whether housing prices constitute a bubble or whether the increases are in line with economic fundamentals. They discuss whether housing price bubbles burst in sudden collapse or deflate slowly and examine the implications of a possible price bubble and its subsequent collapse for the nation’s economy.

The Social Security Dilemma: When and How It Should Be Reformed
Type: NFI Books
Topic: Financial literacy
Author: Networks Financial Institute (Editor)
Date: September 2005
Description:

NFI sponsored a Social Security-themed Financial Forum in November 2005. Three experts on Social Security reform took part, presenting the articles in this volume. The experts addressed the extent of the insolvency problem, including its cash flow and fiscal implications, not only for Social Security, but for the rest of the federal government as well. They also discussed alternative fixes, including the importance of holding...