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’s financial system went into meltdown? And why was Greece’s chief statistician charged with treason in 2013 for apparently doing …
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a century before, and even though Italy had western Europe's most restrictive gold laws. It is a distinctive but … paradigmatic story of how northern Italy performed its post-World War II economic miracle by creating localized but globally … simple dichotomies between northern and southern Italy. …
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economic growth to data culled from historical sources, Temin argues that Roman Italy in the second century was as prosperous …
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themarket risk capital figures reported by bank holding companiesare most useful for tracking changes in market risk exposuresat …
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[...]We discuss the potential benefits and costs associated withsome of the corporate governance variables for an average firm.However, we stress that all of these variables are ultimately partof a simultaneous system that determines the corporation’svalue and the allocation of such value...
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[...]In this article, we provide new evidence of the importance ofthe coordination mechanism that banks use in their normalpayments activity to provide liquidity. We do so by firstoutlining the sources of funding for banks’ payments activity, thus highlighting the role of expected incoming...
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The rapid growth of e-commerce and the Internet has led tothe development of new payment mechanisms capableof tapping the Internet’s unique potential for speed andconvenience. A recent and especially successful exampleof such a development is the personal on-line payment:a mechanism that uses...
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[...]The purpose of this article is to build on this earlier work, bythe Basel Committee and others, and to consider the issues thatwould have to be addressed in developing a regulatory minimumcapital standard based on banks’ internal credit risk models. Inconducting this exercise, we consider...
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the 1980s deregulation of restrictions thatprohibited bank expansion across geographic markets and intoother financial …
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byexploring the experiences of Argentina and Mexico—two markets that exhibit a significant degree and duration offoreign bank …
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