The Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services

The Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services are an annual conference and journal devoted to the examination of significant public policy issues in the world of financial services. Jointly sponsored with The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., this collaboration brings together domestic and international policymakers, industry leaders and academic researchers to explore major issues of broad concern to the financial services community.

The inaugural conference in this series examined the health of financial markets 10 years after the October l987 stock market crash. Subsequent conferences have focused on the impact of technology on the financial services sector, and the globalization and integration of world financial markets:

• 1998 — An assessment of the US equity market challenges, ten years after the 1987 crash
  
• 1999 — The impact of technology on financial services firms, markets and regulators
  
• 2000 — The globalization and consolidation of financial services firms and the resultant challenges for regulation, accounting and trade practices
  
• 2001 — The legal, regulatory and other infrastructure requirements of integrating emerging countries into the global financial services system
  
• 2002 — The future of securities markets
  
• 2003 — Does the Future Belong to Financial Conglomerates?
  
• 2004 — Public Policy Issues Confronting the Insurance Industry
  

The proceedings of these conferences are published in the Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services and are available from the Brookings Institution Press:

• Brookings-Wharton Papers, Vol. I
  
• Brookings-Wharton Papers, Vol. II
  
• Brookings-Wharton Papers, Vol. III
  
• Brookings-Wharton Papers, Vol. IV
  
• Brookings-Wharton Papers, Vol. V
  
• Brookings-Wharton Papers, Vol. VI
• Brookings-Wharton Papers, Vol. VII