Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean 1998 (Chapters: 36) ; Banks and Capital Markets: Sound Financial Systems for the 21st Century ; Proceedings of a Conference held in San Salvador, El Salvador

from the Table of Contents: Introduction; Financial Structure: Relative Importance of Banks and Capital Markets in Intermediation; Legal and Institutional Infrastructure for Financial Markets; Roundtable: The Impact of Foreign Banks and Competition between Banks and Non-Banks; Experiences in Banking Crises Resolution; Institutional Investors and Securities Markets; Supervision of Financial Markets; Roundtable: Lessons from the East Asian Crisis for Latin America and the Caribbean; Closing Remarks;