Download or read book The Global Financial System written by Dwight B. Crane and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading financial scholars present essays examining the performance of the basic financial functions underlying global financial systems: payments, lending and investing, pooling funds, allocating risk, providing information, and dealing with incentive issues--with particular emphasis on how their performance is changing and implications for the future.