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Commercial bank activities in urban mortgage financing
Behrens, Carl F. - 1952
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001906603
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Banks and Markets : The Changing Character of European Finance
Zingales, Luigi - 2003
this trend will continue. Based on our analysis, we conjecture that even if Europe might benefit from a continuation of the …, the trend is likely to benefit Southern Europe less than Northern Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469104
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The Transmission of Shocks in Endogenous Financial Networks : A Structural Approach
Heipertz, Jonas - 2019
The paper uses bank- and instrument-level data on asset holdings and liabilities to identify and estimate a general … equilibrium model of trade in financial instruments. Bilateral ties are formed as each bank selects the size and the … lead to less amplification of partial equilibrium shocks, (ii) the influence of a bank's equity is independent of the size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479997
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Yesterday's Heroes : Compensation and Creative Risk-Taking
Cheng, Ing-Haw - 2010
We study the relationship between compensation and risk-taking among finance firms using a neglected insight from principal-agent contracting with hidden action and risk-averse agents. If the sensitivity of pay to stock price or slope does not vary with stock price volatility, then total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462481
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Financial Development and City Growth : Evidence from Northeastern American Cities, 1790-1870
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2010
urban growth. Our estimates suggest that the presence of a bank at a given location in the late 1830s is associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462656
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Balance Sheet Adjustments in the 2008 Crisis
He, Zhiguo - 2010
We measure how securitized assets, including mortgage-backed securities and other asset-backed securities, have shifted across financial institutions over this crisis and how the availability of financing has accommodated such shifts. Sectors dependent on repo financing - in particular, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462732
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Land and Credit : A Study of the Political Economy of Banking in the United States in the Early 20th Century
Rajan, Raghuram G. - 2009
Economists have argued that a high concentration of land holdings in a country can create powerful interest groups that retard the creation of economic institutions, and thus hold back economic development. Could these arguments apply beyond underdeveloped countries with backward political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463566
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Complexity and Financial Panics
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2009
During extreme financial crises, all of a sudden, the financial world that was once rife with profit opportunities for financial institutions (banks, for short) becomes exceedingly complex. Confusion and uncertainty follow, ravaging financial markets and triggering massive flight-to-quality...
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The Evolving Importance of Banks and Securities Markets
Demirguc-Kunt, Asli - 2012
the size of the economy, (2) the association between an increase in economic output and an increase in bank development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460656
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Sizing Up Repo
Krishnamurthy, Arvind - 2012
, raising credit terms to their borrowers. The picture that emerges from these findings looks less like a traditional bank run …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460892