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Demography, national savings and international capital flows
Higgins, Matthew David - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000977460
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Explaining inequality the world round : Cohort size, Kuznet curves, and openness
Higgins, Matthew David; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001398132
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International banking and cross-border effects of regulation : lessons from the United States
Berróspide, José M.; Correa, Ricardo; Goldberg, Linda S. - 2016
Domestic prudential regulation can have unintended effects across borders and may be less effective in an environment where banks operate globally. Using U.S. micro-banking data for the first quarter of 2000 through the third quarter of 2013, this study shows that some regulatory changes indeed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547676
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Market liquidity after the financial crisis
Adrian, Tobias; Fleming, Michael J.; Shachar, Or; Vogt, Erik - 2017 - Revised June 2017
This paper examines market liquidity in the post-crisis era in light of concerns that regulatory changes might have reduced dealers' ability and willingness to make markets. We begin with a discussion of the broader trading environment, including an overview of regulations and their potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547707
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A new survey of the U.S. bilateral repo market : a snapshot of broker-dealer activity
Baklanova, Viktoria; Caglio, Cecilia; Cipriani, Marco; … - 2016
We provide aggregate statistics on U.S. dealers' bilateral repurchase agreements and economically equivalent securities lending activities. The data were collected from the U.S.-affiliated securities dealers of nine bank holding companies under a voluntary pilot program run by the Office of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413234
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Newer need not be better : evaluating the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators using nighttime lights
Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2016
Penn World Tables (PWT) and of the World Development Indicators (WDI) better estimate true income per capita. We find that … constant-price series in both PWT 8.0 and PWT 8.1, the two most recent vintages of the PWT. We additionally find that the World … Development Indicators are as good, and often better, measures of unobserved true income as any recent vintages of the Penn World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484020
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Cross-border prudential policy spillovers : how much? how important? ; evidence from the International Banking Research Network
Buch, Claudia M.; Goldberg, Linda S. - 2016
The development of macroprudential policy tools has been one of the most significant changes in banking regulation in recent years. In this multi-study initiative of the International Banking Research Network, researchers from fifteen central banks and two international organizations use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568519
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Credit spreads, financial crises, and macroprudential policy
Akinci, Ozge; Queralto, Albert - 2017 - Revised April 2017
Credit spreads display occasional spikes and are more strongly countercyclical in times of financial stress. Financial crises are extreme cases of this nonlinear behavior, featuring skyrocketing credit spreads, sharp losses in bank equity, and deep recessions. We develop a macroeconomic model...
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The gender gap in mathematics : evidence from a middle-income country
Bharadwaj, Prashant; De Giorgi, Giacomo; Hansen, David; … - 2015
Using a large administrative data set from Chile, we find that, on average, boys perform better than girls in mathematics. In this paper, we document several features of their relative performance. First, we note that the gender gap appears to increase with age (it doubles between fourth grade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500668
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Bank complexity, governance, and risk
Correa, Ricardo; Goldberg, Linda S. - 2020
Bank holding companies (BHCs) can be complex organizations, conducting multiple lines of business through many distinct legal entities and across a range of geographies. While such complexity raises the costs of bank resolution when organizations fail, the effect of complexity on BHCs' broader...
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