Week of July 28, 2008
News Item: A couple of weeks ago, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) had taken control of the Pasadena, California-based IndyMac Bancorp due to losses from defaulted mortgages. Are more ban collapses on the way? Included here are select titles that examine bank failures, deregulation, and management.
Bailout: An Insider’s Account of Bank Failures and Rescues
By Irvine H. Sprague. Basic Books, 1986
Call Number: HG2491 .S67 1986
Bank Mergers in a Deregulated Environment: Promise and Peril
By Bernard Shull. Quorum Books, 2001
Call Number: HG1722 .S585 2001 (Also available via NetLibrary)
Belly Up: The Collapse of the Penn Square Bank
By Phillip L. Zweig. Crown Publishers, 1985
Call Number: HG2613 .O354 P419 1985
Checking on Banks: Autonomy and Accountability in Three Federal Agencies
By Anne M. Khademian. Brookings Institution, 1996
Call Number: HG1778 .U5 K46 1996
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the First Fifty Years: A History of the FDIC, 1933-1983
By Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. FDIC, 1984
Call Number: HG1662 .U6 F47
The Impact of Geographic Deregulation on the American Banking Industry
By Ann B. Matasar and Joseph N. Heiney. Quorum Books, 2002
Call Number: HG2491 .M33 2002
Money in the Bank: How Safe Is It?
By A. Robert Abbound et al. Dow-Jones-Irwin, 1988
Call Number: HG2481 .A44 1988
Politics and Banking: Ideas, Public Policy, and the Creation of Financial Institutions
By Susan Hoffman. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001
Call Number: HG2461 .H58 2001
Problem and Failed Institutions in the Commercial Banking Industry
By Joseph F. Sinkey., Jr. JAI Press, 1979
Call Number: HG2491 .S55
Too Big to Fail: The Hazards of Bank Bailouts
By Gary H. Stern and Ron J. Feldman. Brookings Institution Press, 2004
Call Number: HG2491 .S74 2004
Too Big to Fail: Policies and Practices in Government Bailouts
Edited by Bent E. Gup. Praeger, 2004
Call Number: HG3761 .T665 2004 (Also available via NetLibrary)
U.S. Bank Deregulation in Historical Perspective
By Charles W. Calomiris. Cambridge University Press, 2000
Call Number: HG2491 .C348 2000