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Did the Reform Fix the London Fix Problem?
Ito, Takatoshi - 2017
This paper examines the consequences of the 2015 reform on the London fixing in the interbank forex market, which resulted from finding and imposing a penalty on banks' collusive behavior around the fixing window. The banks changed their behavior after the reform, and the volume spike in the...
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Negative Interest Rate Policy and the Yield Curve
Wu, Jing Cynthia - 2018
We evaluate the implications of the ECB's negative interest rate policy (NIRP) on the yield curve. To capture various shapes of the short end of the yield curve induced by the NIRP, we introduce two policy indicators, which summarize the immediate and longer-horizon future monetary policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480832
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Do Currency Markets Absorb News Quickly?
Evans, Martin D.D. - 2005
This paper addresses whether macro news arrivals affect currency markets over time. The null from macro exchange-rate theory is that they do not: macro news is impounded in ex-change rates instantaneously. We test this by examining the effects of news on subsequent trades by end-user...
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Economic and Political Liberalizations
Giavazzi, Francesco - 2004
liberalizations correspond to the event of becoming a democracy. Using a difference-in-difference estimation, we ask what are the …
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Does Competition Affect Bank Risk?
Jiang, Liangliang - 2017
Although policymakers often discuss tradeoffs between bank competition and stability, past research provides differing theoretical perspectives and empirical results on the impact of competition on risk. In this paper, we employ a new approach for identifying exogenous changes in the competitive...
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In with the Big, Out with the Small : Removing Small-Scale Reservations in India
Martin, Leslie A. - 2014
An ongoing debate in employment policy is whether promoting small and medium enterprises creates more employment. Do small enterprises generate more employment growth than larger firms? We use the elimination of small-scale industry (SSI) promotion in India to address this question. For 60...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458175
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Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size : Evidence from India
Alfaro, Laura - 2012
This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm-size dynamics … and the reallocation of resources within industries over time. Following deregulation, we find that the extent of resource … regressions reveal that the distributional effects of deregulation on firm size are significantly non-linear. The size …
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The Liquidation of Government Debt
Reinhart, Carmen M. - 2011
Historically, periods of high indebtedness have been associated with a rising incidence of default or restructuring of public and private debts. A subtle type of debt restructuring takes the form of "financial repression." Financial repression includes directed lending to government by captive...
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Japan's Big Bang and the Transformation of Financial Markets
Ito, Takatoshi - 1999
A first step in the 'big bang' markets was the deregulation of the foreign exchange market on April 1, 1998. This paper … the deregulation. Intra-day data are analyzed with the following results: (1) Holding constant the effects of volume and … volatility, the deregulation was associated with a convergence of Japanese quoted spreads toward those of other banks. (2 …
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Was the Forex Fixing Fixed?
Ito, Takatoshi - 2015
"Fixing" of the exchange rate (price) is a rule among the Forex market participating institutions to set a reference/settlement price for the day. Major fixings occur at 9:55 am Tokyo time for transactions between Japanese banks and their customers, and at 4:00 pm London time for transactions...
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