This book aims to provide a thoroughly updated overview and evaluation of the industrial organization of banking. It examines the interplay among bank behaviour, market structure, and regulation from the perspective of a variety of public policy issues, including bank competition and risk, market discipline, antitrust issues, and capital regulation. New to this edition are discussions of the economic foundations of international banking, macroprudential regulation, and international coordination of banking policies. The book can serve as a learning tool and reference for graduate students, academics, bankers, and policymakers with interests in the industrial organization of the banking sector and the impacts of banking regulations.

Author Biography

David VanHoose is an economics professor at the Hankamer School of Buiness atHankamer School of Business at Baylof University. He has written numerous text books and papers which are widely used in the field of economics. His areas of focus are international economics, monetary economics, macroeconomics, and banking.