On 5 December 1925, the ‘Portuguese Bank Note Bubble’ burst. The Lisbon daily newspaper, O Século (The Century …), revealed the swindle in the headline ‘O Pais em Crise’ (The Country in Crisis). The article describes how twenty-eight year old … English security printing company Waterlow and Sons that he was a representative of the Bank of Portugal, and created his own …

order to illuminate current debates about pension‘reform’. Much of the present discussion depicts social insurance ‘crisis …

This study examines a problem of fiscal deficits based on the Ottoman budget of 1275 A.H. (March 1859–February 1860 … 1275 budget and the balance of foreign and internal debts in 1861.2 They found that a monetary policy of issuing new paper …

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

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 …

[...]The most obvious possible, and undesirable,impact on bank behaviour of risk-weighted capital requirementsis that …