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Financial Intermediation and The Great Depression : A Multiple Equilibrium Interpretation
Cooper, Russell - 1995
This paper explores the behavior of the U.S. economy during the interwar period from the perspective of a model in which the existence of non-convexities in the intermediation process gives rise to a multiplicity of equilibria. The resulting indeterminancy is resolved through a sunspot process...
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Productivity Effects of TVE Privatization : The Case Study of Garment and Metal Casting Enterprises in the Greater Yangtze River Region
Sonobe, Tetsushi - 2003
While it is by now well known that the privatization of township- and village-run enterprises (TVREs) has been rapidly … and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource … allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the fuller understanding of the effect of privatization, this study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469077
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Financial Dependence and Growth Revisited
Fisman, Raymond - 2003
In this note, we revisit an earlier, highly influential paper on Financial Dependence and Growth by Rajan and Zingales (1998), by re-examining their assumptions, and the robustness of their results to alternative theories and interpretations. We first show that they may be implicitly testing...
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Economic Growth and Real Exchange Rate : An Overview of the Balassa-Samuelson Hypothesis in Asia
Ito, Takatoshi - 1997
The paper tests the Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis (rapid economic growth is accompanied by real exchange rate appreciation because of differential productivity growth between tradable and nontradable sectors) using data of the APEC economies. Japan, Korea, Taiwan and, to a lesser extent, Hong...
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Intermediation and Voluntary Exposure to Counterparty Risk
Farboodi, Maryam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
I study a model of the financial sector in which intermediation among debt financed banks gives rise to an endogenous core-periphery network - few highly interconnected and many sparsely connected banks. Endogenous intermediation generates excessive systemic risk in the financial network....
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Financial Intermediation in the United States
Friedman, Benjamin M. - 1984
The principal rationales that give rise to financial intermediation are benefits of size and specialization, the diversification of specific asset risks, and the pooling of even broader classes of risk. Each is a significant factor in accounting for the U.S. economy's reliance on intermediation....
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Financing Development : The Role of Information Costs
Greenwood, Jeremy - 2007
How does technological progress in financial intermediation affect the economy? To address this question a costly-state verification framework is embedded into a standard growth model. In particular, financial intermediaries can invest resources to monitor the returns earned by firms. The...
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Financial Intermediation and Aggregate Fluctuations : A Quantative Analysis
Cooper, Russell - 1994
This paper investigates the quantitative implications of two business cycle models in which aggregate fluctuations arise in response to variations in the process of financial intermediation. In the first, fundamental shocks in the capital accumulation process lead to fluctuations in the real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474096
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The FinTech Opportunity
Philippon, Thomas - 2016
This paper assesses the potential impact of FinTech on the finance industry, focusing on financial stability and access to services. I document first that financial services remain surprisingly expensive, which explains the emergence of new entrants. I then argue that the current regulatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456201
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Finance : Function Matters, not Size
Cochrane, John H. - 2013
I address the controversy over whether the financial services industry is "too big." We should be asking whether the finance industry is functioning properly instead. The facts suggest that demand for financial services increased, perhaps temporarily, rather than suggesting a changing distortion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459717