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International harmonization of banking regulations and cooperation among national regulators: An assessment

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  1. John H. Harland Professor of Finance, Accounting and Economics, Emory University, 30322, Atlanta, Georgia

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I am indebted to Randall Benston, Mike Carhill, George Kaufman, Richard Herring, Edward Kane, Shehzad Mian, James Rosenfeld, Stephen Timme, and Larry Wall for helpuf comments, and especially to Robert Eisenbeis. An earlier version of this paper was presented at a conference sponsored by the Financial Markets Group of the London School of Economics and published in Fingleton and Schoenmaker (1992).

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Benston, G.J. International harmonization of banking regulations and cooperation among national regulators: An assessment. J Finan Serv Res 8, 205–225 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01057737

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