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From the mid-19th Century until the Great Depression, banks, insurance companies and other large institutional investors supplied railways with external capital that supported their rise to near hegemony over transport in the U.S. This regime ended in the 1930’s, when widespread rail...
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How big do banks need to be to gain all the economies of scale? The largest Canadian banks already achieve scale economies and further increases in size can make them "too big to fail." Available evidence indicates normal monopoly risks will be passed on to Canadian firms and consumers if the...
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This paper dissects the balance sheet and business model of Gulf Finance, and scrutinizes the existence of a "pre-exit premium" in their activities – on top of the usual exit fees and/or performance fees. The study suggests that this practice (uncommon even for conventional Private Equity...
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of the events of fulfilling, delinquency and default of each individual payment on the loan. The proposed model has …
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developed a model with heterogeneous agents and an active interbank market, characterized by an endogenous default probability …. The key feature of the analysis is that the probability of default evolves endogenously and is taken into account by banks …, of their surplus funds on loans to other financial institutions, if the probability of default is high enough, preferring …
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Since February 2010, detailed information on every home mortgage default and foreclosure in New York State must be … default. After controlling for other factors, we find that the interest rates charged to black and Latino borrowers tended to … tend to default at a higher rate, but other factors, such as the tendency of black and Latino borrowers to take out larger …
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Since February 2010, detailed information on every home mortgage default and foreclosure in New York State must be … that borrowers in default who took larger loans are more likely to progress to foreclosure. It also suggests that reducing …
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Section 1 of this work argues the case for full reserve banking. Section 2 explains the flaws in a large number of arguments put AGAINST full reserve, and section 3 explains the flaws in a few arguments put IN FAVOUR of full reserve.
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This paper is one of the first attempts to conduct an empirical investigation of the relationship between bank capital, securitization and bank risk-taking in a context of the rapid growth in off-balance-sheet activities. The data come from the Canadian financial sector. Evidence from the...
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• This paper provides a specific proposal to limit the financial activities that are covered and thus subsidized by the government safety net in order to protect the financial system and the economy. The U.S. safety net, which consists of central bank loans to solvent but liquidity strained...
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