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Threats To International Financial Stability

Edited by Richard Portes and Alexander K. Swoboda
Reviewed by Lucy Edwards Despard
Summer 1988
Threats To International Financial Stability
Edited by Richard Portes and Alexander K. Swoboda
Cambridge University Press
1987
307 pp.
$42.50
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Well-designed inquiries about financial crises, government regulation and measures to reduce risk make this a most useful volume. The papers are by academics and the commentaries by bankers and officials from a number of countries.

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