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Are Banks Too Big to Fail or Too Big to Save? International Evidence from Equity Prices and CDS Spreads

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2011

Deteriorating public finances around the world raise doubts about countries' abilities to bail out their largest banks …

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Bank Ownership and Credit Over the Business Cycle : Is Lending by State Banks Less Procyclical?

Bertay, Ata Can - 2012

This paper finds that lending by state banks is less procyclical than lending by private banks, especially in countries with good governance. Lending by state banks in high income countries is even countercyclical. On the liability side, state banks expand potentially unstable non-deposit...

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Ultimate 100M World Records through Extreme-Value Theory

Einmahl, John H. J.; Smeets, Sander - 2009

We use extreme-value theory to estimate the ultimate world records for the 100m running, for both men and women. For … endpoint of the speed distribution is estimated. The corresponding time can be interpreted as the estimated ultimate world …

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