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Banking, Capital Markets and Corporate Governance explores the fragility of the banking system, corporate governance, and the increasing securitization of corporate finance. The contributors address the following issues. The impact of banking during a crisis in providing an incentive for the managers of failing banks to restructure their assets; the way in which economic and legal institutions can control the management of banks and firms; and the effects of increases in the securitization of corporate finance and the amount of financial innovation. Edited By Hiroshi Osano and Toshiaki Tachibanaki Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction; H.Osano & T.Tachibanaki PART I: BANKING Liquidity Demand of Corporate Sector and Soft Budget Constraint; N.Yanagawa Incentive Effects of Conditional Bank Recapitalization: Lending and Disclosure of Non-Performing Loans; P.Aghion, P.Bolton & S.Fries Injection of Public Funds into Banks under Deposit Insurance and Bank Regulation; H.Osano Governance Structure of Banks and Their Business Performance; T.Tachibanaki & H.Okamura A Vacuum of Governance in the Japanese Bank Management; M.Hanazaki & A.Horiuchi PART II: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Corporate Bankruptcy; M.J.White Executive Option Plans and Incentives to Take Risk in Levered Firms: Equity Value or Firm Value Maximization?; G.T.Garvey & A.Mawani Does the Decision to Retain Retiring Executives on the Board of Directors Help to Control Agency Problems in American and Japanese Firms?; J.A.Brickley, J.L.Coles & J.S.Linck PART III: CAPITAL MARKET Viable Design of a Security with a Pre-existing Market; K.hashi Investment, Security Design and Information; G.Demange & G.Laroque PART IV: GENERAL COMMENTS Mashiro Okuno: Fujiwara Index
