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IT-enabled credit risk modernization: a revolution under the cloak of normality

Scott, Susan V. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

This paper focuses on IT-enabled credit risk modernisation in commercial retail banking. The empirical material is based upon a longitudinal case study conducted during 1993–1996 using an interpretive approach. It documents the introduction of a leading-edge computer-based decision support...

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Has the growth of real GDP in the UK been overstated because of mis-measurement of banking output?

Oulton, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

If official figures overstated the growth of banking output in the UK in the recent boom, does this mean that GDP growth was overstated too? The answer is no. It is truer to say that if banking output was overstated then the output of some other industry or industries must have been understated,...

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The development of electronic trading in the futures industry: strategic risk positioning in a globalising age

Scott, Susan V.; Barrett, Michael I. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

Contemporary political, economic and social conditions heighten the demand placed upon organizations to create strategy designed to manage uncertainty. It is suggested that a broader analytical repertoire may support development of insight into the nature and speed of change during turbulent...

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Banking on trust: managing reputation risk in financial service organizations

Scott, Susan V.; Walsham, Geoff - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

In this paper we introduce concepts that build a theoretical notion of reputation risk and establish the need to extend our approach to managing such risk.. The existing literature on reputation risk has tended to be reactive and focus on immediate business threats rather than trying to...

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A historical analysis of core financial services infrastructure: Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT)

Scott, Susan V.; Zachariadis, M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Research in this article traces the origins of a not-for-profit financial institution the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (S.W.I.T.). Swift is a core part of the financial services infrastructure and widely regarded as the most secure trusted third party network in...

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Bankers' pay and extreme wage inequality in the UK

Bell, Brian; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

It is well known that the distribution of income in the United Kingdom has widened considerably in the last three decades. This rise has been a result of a widening at both the top and bottom of the wage distribution. More recently, most of the action appears to have occurred at the top of the...

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On the detrimental impact of visa restrictions on bilateral trade and foreign direct investment

Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This article estimates the effect of visa restrictions on bilateral trade flows and foreign direct investment (FDI …

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The impact of uncertainty shocks: firm level estimation and a 9/11 simulation

Bloom, Nick - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

employment, investment and productivity, and a moderate loss in GDP. This temporary impact of a second moment shock is different …

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Underinvestment and market structure

Nocke, Volker - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

This paper analyses a dynamic game of investment in R&D or advertising, where current investments change future market … conditions. It investigates whether underinvestment can be supported in equilibrium by the threat of escalation in investment … investment in equilibrium. Furthermore, potential entry is introduced into the model so as to address the issues of market …

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Unions and productivity, financial performance and investment: international evidence

Metcalf, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

capital to labour with no efficiency effects, but is probably more likely to lead to lower investment rates and economic … senescence. Therefore the impact of unions on productivity, financial performance and investment is extremely important. This … unionisation reduces investment by around one fifth compared with the investment rate in a non-union workplace. In both Canada and …

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