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The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This paper aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the...
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) little susceptibility to manipulation; (iv) timeliness; (v) scalable from the individual bank to the system. We show how this …
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This paper investigates the degree of bank competition in the euro area, the U.S. and U.K. before and after the recent … financial crisis, and revisits the issue whether the introduction of EMU and the euro have had any impact on bank competition …. The results suggest that the level of bank competition converged across euro area countries in the wake of the EMU. The …
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This paper provides a quantitative evaluation of the macroeconomic, distributional, and fiscal effects of three reform proposals for Germany: i) a reduction in the social security tax in the low-wage sector, ii) a publicly financed expansion of full-day child care and full-day schooling, and...
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The paper finds that, given Australia's conservative approach in implementing the Basel II framework, Australian banks' headline capital ratios underestimate their capital strengths. Given their high capital quality and the progress in their funding profiles since the global financial crisis,...
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This paper analyzes the evolution of bank funding structures in the run up to the global financial crisis and studies … the implications for financial stability, exploiting a bank-level dataset that covers about 11,000 banks in the U.S. and …-crisis period were more likely to fail afterward. The likelihood of bank failure also increases with bank risk-taking. In the cross …
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