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Tax rates and interest rates on tax-exempt securities

Peek, Joe; Wilcox, James A. - In: New England Economic Review (1986) Jan, pp. 29-41

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Margin lending and stock market volatility

Fortune, Peter - In: New England Economic Review (2001), pp. 3-25

the returns on common stocks in the period 1975-2001. The model includes information on the amount of margin debt … significance of margin debt is so low that this study is not able to support a return to the active margin policy that existed …

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Mutual funds, part II: fund flows and security returns

Fortune, Peter - In: New England Economic Review (1998) Jan, pp. 3-22

shareholder behavior and the differences between direct ownership and pooled ownership of securities. He presents an econometric …

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Sweden's approach to monetary policy

Little, Jane Sneddon - In: New England Economic Review (2002) Q 2, pp. 51-55

The Sveriges Riksbank, the Swedish central bank, is an authority under the Riksdag (parliament) with responsibility for monetary policy. Its objectives are to maintain price stability and to promote a safe and efficient payment system. With the advent of the new regime, which went into effect in...

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Japan's approach to monetary policy

Olivei, Giovanni P. - In: New England Economic Review (2002) Q 2, pp. 39-43

The goal of monetary policy as conducted by the Bank of Japan is to contribute to the sound development of the national economy through the pursuit of price stability. The objective of price stability, however, is not precisely defined as it has been for other central banks. Following the...

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Bank regulatory agreements in New England

Peek, Joe; Rosengren, Eric S. - In: New England Economic Review (1995) May, pp. 15-24

New England's recovery from our most recent recession has been marked by unusually slow growth in bank lending. As of the third quarter of 1994, total loans still had recovered only to 76 percent of the level attained at the peak in the third quarter of 1989. Numerous recent studies have...

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The practice of central banking in other industrialized countries

Kopcke, Richard W. - In: New England Economic Review (2002) Q 2, pp. 3-9

securities, over standing facilities, such as lending and deposit facilities, in conducting their monetary policies. In their … market operations, foreign central banks most commonly trade securities issued or guaranteed by their governments and … repurchase agreements that are backed by a variety of assets, including private securities and securities denominated in foreign …

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Innovations in performance measurement in banking

Kimball, Ralph C. - In: New England Economic Review (1997) May, pp. 23-38

In banking over the past 10 years, management accountants have been instrumental in the creation of new management processes and performance systems. Their innovations have enabled banks to create internal capital markets, measure risks so as to facilitate their proper hedging and pricing, and...

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Monetary policy in pre-ECB Italy

Bartolini, Leonardo - In: New England Economic Review (2002) Q 2, pp. 35-38

In 1979, Italy entered into the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) as a founding member of the European Monetary System. After that date, the country's monetary policy was geared toward the maintenance of exchange rate stability against its ERM partners, despite a number of exchange parity...

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Using bank supervisory data to improve macroeconomic forecasts

Peek, Joe; Rosengren, Eric S.; Tootell, Geoffrey M. B. - In: New England Economic Review (1999) Sep, pp. 21-32

Locating the function of bank supervision in the central bank has been a contentious issue, both domestically and internationally. Most discussions of the role of bank supervision in central banking have focused on crisis management and the responsibilities of the central bank as a lender of...

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