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Mortality and Lifetime Income : Evidence From U.S. Social Security Records
Greenlees, John S. - 2007
Studies of the empirical relationship between income and mortality often rely on data aggregated by geographic areas and broad population groups and do not distinguish disabled and nondisabled persons. We investigate the relationship between individual mortality and lifetime income with a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400785
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On bank consolidation in a currency union
Di Vittorio, Fabio; Li, Delong; Yun, Hanlei - 2018
The paper focuses on the impact of diversification on bank performance and how consolidation through mergers and … indigenous banks, as compared to foreign competitors in the ECCU. We then simulate bank mergers both within and across ECCU … countries by combining individual banks' balance sheets. The simulation shows that a typical indigenous bank could better …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852546
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Bank Concentration and the Supply of Credit in Argentina
Cañonero, Gustavo Enrique - 1997
information asymmetries in the banking sector, it also may have contributed to the contraction in bank lending observed during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403360
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Intangible investment and low inflation : a framework and some evidence
Lall, Subir; Zeng, Li - 2020
Intangible investment is growing as a share of economic activity. We present a simple framework incorporating its distinguishing characteristic of generally greater scalability and lower marginal costs than tangible investment. We show evidence that this may have contributed to more elastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012302067
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Integrated ownership and control in the GCC corporate sector
Santos, André Oliveira - 2015
The objective of the paper is to assess ownership and control links in the GCC corporate sector. The analysis focuses on the integrated ownership and network arising from ownership data available in Bloomberg and GCC stock exchanges. The paper finds that ownership is concentrated in GCC public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373923
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Measuring concentration risk : a partial portfolio approach
Grippa, Pierpaolo; Gornicka, Lucyna - 2016
Concentration risk is an important feature of many banking sectors, especially in emerging and small economies. Under the Basel Framework, Pillar 1 capital requirements for credit risk do not cover concentration risk, and those calculated under the Internal Ratings Based (IRB) approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715110
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Remittance concentration and volatility : evidence from 72 developing countries
Hosny, Amr - 2020
This paper contributes to the literature by introducing the role of geographic concentration of the source of remittances. Specifically, using data over 2010-2015 for 72 developing countries, we study the impact of (i) large remittances and (ii) the geographic concentration of the source of...
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Recent developments in European bank competition
Sun, Yu - 2011
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How did markets react to stress tests?
Candelon, Bertrand; Sy, Amadou N. R. - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281613
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The role of bank capital in bank holding companies’ decisions
Barajas, Adoldo; Cosimano, Thomas F.; Hakura, Dalia S.; … - 2015
This paper examines the role of bank capital in decision-making by bank holding companies (BHCs) in the United States …. Following Chami and Cosimano's (2001) call option approach to bank capital, BHCs optimally choose the amount of capital to … insure the bank against becoming capital constrained in the future. We provide empirical support for this model, and find …
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