Shifting Frontiers in Financial Markets

A Opening Addresses.- I Introduction.- II Shifting Frontiers in Financial Markets: their Causes and Consequences.- III What Monetary Targets in an Evolving Financial System? An Introductory Address.- IV Recent Changes in the Financial System: a Perspective on Benefits versus Costs.- B Causes of Change and Innovation in the Mix of Financial Instruments.- V Developments on the French Capital Markets in Recent Years.- VI Causes of Change and Innovation in the Mix of Financial Instruments: The New Emphasis on Small Company External Equity Financing and its Impact on Capital Market Structure.- VII The Birth of a New Market - The Case of the Swedish Money Market.- VIII Causes of Change and Innovation in the Mix of Financial Instruments: the UK Experience.- IX Change and Innovation in Borrowing Patterns: Three American Cases.- C The Cost of Capital Funds and the Financing of Growth.- X Real Rates and Capital Investment: a Fisher-Wicksell Perspective.- XI A Few Insights into the Phenomenon of Real Interest Rates in the 1980s.- XII Interest Rates and Inflation: European v. US Evidence 1960-1984.- D Implications for Financial Institutions.- XIII Deposit Rate Discrimination: Effects on Bank Management and Monetary Policy in Italy.- XIV Deregulation: Implications for British Building Societies.- XV Shifting Institutional Frontiers in Financial Markets in the United States.- XVI Implications of Information Technology for Financial Institutions.- XVII Shifting Financial Frontiers: Implications for Financial Institutions.- E Implications for Monetary Control and the Supervision of Financial Institutions.- XVIII Recent Developments in the Structure and Regulation of the Canadian Financial System.- XIX Shifting Frontiers in Financial Markets and Adjustments of Supervisory Systems.- XX The Implications of Shifting Frontiers in Financial Markets for Monetary Control.- XXI Financial Innovation and Monetary Aggregate Targeting.- F Report on the Colloquium.- XXII General Report.