"Papers from the ICICI Research Centre-IIMA international conference ... held in Mumbai on 21 March 2002"--P. [15].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Some critical issues in the banking sector today / T.T. Ram Mohan -- A primer on finance, growth, and regulation / James R. Barth and Susanne Trimbath -- A cross-country analysis of external governance and bank profitability / James R. Barth, Valentina Hartarska, Daniel E. Nolle and Triphon Phumiwasana -- The regulation of banks in emerging markets : Basel II and the markets / Uwe Neumann and Philip Turner -- Regulation of financial conglomerates : is unification of financial sector supervision the answer? / V. Sundararajan and Barbara Baldwin -- Perspectives on the role of incentives in the prevention of financial crises in emerging economies / Amar Gande, Kose John and Lemma Senbet -- Imperfections in Indian regulation as measured by the subsidy dependence index : a case study for banks and financial institutions / Abhay Pethe and Rupa Rege Nitsure -- Non-performing assets of Indian commercial banks : an analytical exercise / Samaresh Bardhan and Sugata Marjit.