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Universal Banking Failure? An Analysis of the Contrasting Responses of the Amsterdamsche Bank and the Rotterdamsche Bankvereeniging to the Dutch Financial Crisis of the 1920s

Colvin, Christopher Louis - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

two similar-sized banks operating in the Netherlands in the 1920s: the Amsterdamsche Bank and the Rotterdamsche … Bankvereeniging. Whilst the first escaped the crisis relatively unscathed, the second required assistance from the Nederlandsche Bank …, the Dutch central bank. A new and detailed narrative of one episode of the crisis using as yet unused primary sources is …

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Central Bank Tools and Liquidity Shortages

Cecchetti, Stephen G.; Disyatat, Piti - London School of Economics and Political Science

, centralbanks have made extensive use of both new and existing toolsfor supplying central bank money to financial institutions …

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The Outlook for the Metropolitan Area

Netzer, Dick - New York University / Department of Economics; London … - 1997

Much of the discourse about regional andlocal economic development strategiesin the United States over the pasttwenty-five years has looked like asearch for general rules. Very few such rules have emerged,in part because—like all policy debates—there have beenlarge inputs of ideology and...

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SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM IN CHINA: ISSUES AND OPTIONS

Jiange, Li - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

This report is the first policy study of the China Economic Research and AdvisoryProgramme, in which eminent economists from China and abroad have participated. Thereport focuses on the problems faced by China in the reform of its social security system.On the basis of economic principles and...

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Social Welfare in East Asia: Low PublicSpending but Low Income Inequality?

Jacobs, Didier - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

“Light” welfare states were perceived by some as one source of East Asian economicdynamism. Didier Jacobs has examined the strengths of several East Asian socialwelfare systems and the challenges they face after the financial crisis.Japan has a fully-fledged social welfare system. Yet her...

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Provision of Liquidity through the Primary Credit Facility during the Financial Crisis: A Structural Analysis

Artuç, Erhan; Demiralp, Selva - Koç Üniversitesi <İstanbul>; London School of …

In this paper, we assess the effects of changes to the primarycredit facility since August 2007 by performing out-of-samplesimulations based on a model developed by Artuç andDemiralp (2008). Our results are highly consistent with thepredictions of our 2008 study—that is, the revised...

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Informational Easing: Improving Credit Conditions through the Release of Information

Pritsker, Matthew - London School of Economics and Political Science

uncertainty about participants along the chains. This action has been taken before: the Bank Holiday of 1933, declared byPresident … Franklin Delano Roosevelt, resolved uncertaintyabout the health of individual banks by using bank inspectionsto publicly …

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Banks’ Payments-Driven Revenues

Radecki, Lawrence J. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

bankingindustry. This goal is served by taking a broad view of thepayments business and analyzing information provided bylarge bank …

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Supervisory Information and the Frequency of Bank Examinations

Hirtle, Beverly J.; López, José A. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

length of time between bank examinations affects thequality of information available to supervisors. For thesepurposes, we … condition of a bank. Our analysisassumes that examination information incorporates twotypes of data: information available from … information that can be obtained onlythrough on-site examinations, such as confidential informationabout a bank’s troubled assets …

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Macro Markets and Financial Security

Athanasoulis, Stefano; Shiller, Robert J.; Van Wincoop, Eric - Yale University <New Haven, Conn.> / Department of Economics; … - 1999

[...]We address several questions in this paper. First,how could macro markets be useful to the average person?Second, how large are the potential benefits from diversificationif these markets were to be introduced andused optimally? Third, can existing financial marketsachieve a similar degree...

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