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After the Great Debasement, 1544-51: Did Gresham’s Law Apply?
Li, Ling-Fan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009
the disappearance of good money over this period has provided any solid quantitative assessment of the effectiveness of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870464
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The Effects Of The 1925 Portuguese Bank Note Crisis
Wigan, Henry - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
bank through which he concealed over £3m in counterfeit money.[...] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870587
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Measuring Instruments in Economics and the Velocity of Money
Morgan, Mary S. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
measure the velocity of money ranging from the 17th to the 20th centuries. These historical experiences suggest that numerical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870928
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Time is Money: A Re-assessment of the Passenger Social Savings From Victorian British Railways
Leunig, Timothy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
saving money to saving time came when railway technology stopped simply fulfilling existing demand more cheaply (travel for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870947
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Interest subsidies on student loans: A better class of drain
Barr, Nicholas A.; Johnston, Alison - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010
This paper discusses the problems that arise from interest subsidies in the UK system of student loans; systems in other countries, for example Australia and New Zealand, face similar problems. The topic appears to be narrow and technical, and of significance only to the most nerdy of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005871051
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Working or Shirking? A closer look at MPs' Expenses and Parliamentary Attendance
Besley, Timothy; Larcinese, Valentino - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
cast in parliament as a crudemeasure of value for money. We use the results to reflect on twoviews of the motivation of MPs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009138494
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Tasting freedom: Happiness, religion and economictransition
Lelkes, Orsolya - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002
individuals’ self-reported well-being.Controlling for personal characteristics of the respondents, money is aless important source …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354069
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Divorcing Money from Monetary Policy
Keister, Todd; Martin, Antoine; McAndrews, James - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008
of money to promote its economic objectives. Forexample, Milton Friedman (1959, p. 24) defined the tools ofmonetary … policy to be those “powers that enable the [FederalReserve] System to determine the total amount of money inexistence or to … alter that amount.” In fact, the very termmonetary policy suggests a central bank’s policy toward thesupply of money or the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869403
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The Evolution of Repo Contracting Conventions in the 1980s
Garbade, Kenneth D. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY> - 2006
[...]This paper examines how repo contracting conventionsevolved in the 1980s. In the next section, we consider therevival of repo financing in the 1950s and the contractingconventions associated with that revival. Section 3 describeshow the rising level and volatility of interest rates and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869685
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A Survey of Blockholders and Corporate Control
Holderness, Clifford G. - School of Management <Boston, Mass.> - 2003
[...]In this paper, I survey the academic literature onblockholders and corporate control. As with any survey paper,I must be selective. Thus, I focus on empirical research, as Ibelieve that much of what we know about blockholders hascome through empirical investigations as opposed totheoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869806