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We propose several connectedness measures built from pieces of variance decompositions, and we argue that they provide natural and insightful measures of connectedness among financial asset returns and volatilities. We also show that variance decompositions define weighted, directed networks, so...
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relationships between product diversification, business group affiliation and firm performance in two major economies in Asia. India … Rumelt (1974) implicitly assumed that the diversification-performance relationship is consistent, regardless of the macro … macroeconomic environments. Further, studies linking diversification with firm performance have been carried out mainly in …
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We examine the prudential implications of the co-existence between the standardized approach and the internal ratings-based (IRB) approach, as defined in the new Basle Accord. We consider a model in which sophisticated banks, eligible for the IRB approach, and unsophisticated banks, eligible for...
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The wide-ranging economic developments of the previous decade, e.g. the integration ofworld economies, have made a significant impact towards increasing the mobility of theworking populace and their families. At the same time, technological developments especiallyin the field of...
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The increased need/wish for mobility amongst various sections of the society, particularlyamongst professionally active groups, is confronting credit institutions (banks) and otherenterprises offering financial services, with challenges to adjust their service portfolio in away to best suit the...
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Mobile Commerce is gaining increasing acceptance amongst various sections of the society. Thisgrowth can be partly traced back to technological and demographical developments that have beeninfluencing important aspects of the socio-cultural behaviour in today’s world. The need/wish formobility...
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Auch der Schweizer Finanzplatz wird sich im Zeichen des E-Commerce weiter verändern, um sich neuen Herausforderungen zu stellen. Wwer unter den alten und neuen Anbietern von Finanzdienstleistungen als Sieger aus diesem Transformationsprozess hervorgehen wird, ist schwierig zu prognostizieren...
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The misevaluation of risk in securitized financial products is central to understanding the financial crisis of 2007 - 8. This paper characterizes the evolution of factors affecting collateralized debt obligations based on subprime mortgages. A key feature of subprime-mortgage backed indices is...
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Using count data on the number of bank failures in US states during the 1960 to 2006 period, this paper endeavors to establish how far sources of economic risk (recessions, high interest rates, inflation) or differences in solvency and branching regulation can explain some of the fragility in...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between the quality of the commercial credit portfolio and diversification in the …-banking) is used, which allows to consider three potential dimensions of diversification: per productive sector, per province and … per client. In addition to characterizing the financial entities’ diversification decisions during the period under …
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