SOCIAL VALUE OF THE FINANCIAL SECTOR, THE: TOO BIG TO FAIL OR JUST TOO BIG? (World Scientific Studies in International Economics, 29) - Hardcover

Thorsten Beck is professor of economics and chairman of the European Banking Center. Before joining Tilburg University and the CentER, he worked at the Development Research Group of the World Bank. Beck's research and policy work have focused on two main questions: What is the effect of financial sector development on economic growth and poverty alleviation, and what are the determinants of a sound and effective financial sector? His research has recently focused on access to financial services by small and medium-sized enterprises and households.

Douglas D Evanoff is vice president and senior research advisor for banking issues at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. In that capacity, he conducts research on issues associated with financial institutions and markets, coordinates conferences on relevant policy issues, and supports the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's senior management in policy deliberations. His research interests include financial regulation, consumer credit issues, mortgage markets, productive efficiencies, and bank merger analysis. His research has recently been published in leading academic journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Financial Economics, and Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, among others.

George G Kaufman is the John F Smith Professor of Economics and Finance at Loyola University Chicago and a consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. From 1959 to 1970, he was at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and after teaching for ten years at the University of Oregon, he returned as a consultant to the Bank in 1981. He has also been a visiting professor at Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California, as well as a visiting scholar at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. He has also served as the deputy to the assistant secretary for economic policy at the US Department of the Treasury.

Richard Portes is professor of economics at London Business School and president of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He was formerly the directeurd;'etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (1978-2011), a Rhodes Scholar, and a fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. In 2003 04 he was Joel Stern Visiting Professor of International Finance at Columbia Business School, and in 1999-2000 he was Distinguished Global Visiting Professor at Haas Business School, University of California, Berkeley. He has also taught at Princeton, Harvard (as a Guggenheim Fellow), and Birkbeck College (University of London). He writes and speaks widely on a broad range of international macroeconomics and finance topics.