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Financial Regulation in a Quantitative Model of the Modern Banking System
Begenau, Juliane; Landvoigt, Tim - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
How does the shadow banking system respond to changes in capital regulation of commercial banks? We propose a quantitative general equilibrium model with regulated and unregulated banks to study the unintended consequences of regulation. Tighter capital requirements for regulated banks cause...
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Who Should Supervise? The Structure of Bank Supervision and the Performance of the Financial System
Eichengreen, Barry - 2011
We assemble data on the structure of bank supervision, distinguishing supervision by the central bank from supervision by a nonbank governmental agency and independent from dependent governmental supervisors. Using observations for 140 countries from 1998 through 2010, we find that supervisory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461257
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Durable Financial Regulation : Monitoring Financial Instruments as a Counterpart to Regulating Financial Institutions
Nakamura, Leonard - 2011
This paper sets forth a discussion framework for the information requirements of systemic financial regulation. It specifically describes a potentially large macro-micro database for the U.S. based on an extended version of the Flow of Funds. I argue that such a database would have been of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461652
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Offshore jurisdictions (including Cyprus), corruption money laundering and Russian round-trip investment
Ledyaeva, Svetlana - 2013
In this paper we analyze the link between corruption money laundering and round-trip investment via offshore jurisdictions utilizing Russian firm-level data. In particular we empirically explore location strategies of round-trip investors (namely, from Cyprus and British Virgin Islands) across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459644
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Lending to the Unbanked : Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks
Lang, Kevin - 2019
We study roughly 11,000 loans from unlicensed moneylenders to over 1,000 borrowers in Singapore and provide basic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480344
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Growth Accounting with Misallocation : Or, Doing Less with More in Singapore
Fernald, John - 2010
rather than the top down. We show an example, for Singapore, of how incomplete data can be used to obtain estimates of … estimates in Singapore and to resolve other empirical puzzles regarding Asian development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462609
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Capital Flows and Exchange Rate Volatility : Singapore's Experience
Kapur, Basant K. - 2005
Singapore's experience with international capital flows over the past two decades or so has been a rather -- although … equities market, and operating on a Currency Board (CB) system (although with some differences from Singapore's CB system). The … discussion serves to identify some 'areas of vulnerability' in the Hong Kong set-up at that time. We next discuss Singapore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467314
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Ownership and Use Taxes as Congestion Correcting Instruments
Chia, Ngee-Choon - 2001
In countries, such as Singapore, that have implemented vehicle congestion policies, recent years have seen a shift …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470446
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Annuity Values in Defined Contribution Retirement Systems : The Case of Singapore and Australia
Doyle, Suzanne - 2001
is to assess the money's worth and adverse selection impact of annuities in two countries Singapore and Australia that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470638
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Accounting for Outward Direct Investment from Hong Kong and Singapore : Who Controls What?
Low, Linda - 1996
), we survey information on outward investors from Hong Kong and Singapore with the aim of illuminating the implications of … investment by foreign firms in Hong Kong and Singapore often involves sub- stantial contributions from local staff and partners … of foreign-controlled Hong Kong or Singapore investors suggested that many of the investors were acting as part of an …
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