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Money manager capitalism and the global financial crisis

Wray, L. Randall - 2009

This paper applies Hyman Minsky's approach to provide an analysis of the causes of the global financial crisis. Rather than finding the origins in recent developments, this paper links the crisis to the long-term transformation of the economy from a robust financial structure in the 1950s to the...

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OTC Derivatives Market in India: Recent Regulatory Initiatives and Open Issues for Market Stability and Development

Arora, Dayanand; Rathinam, Francis Xavier - 2010

The OTC derivatives markets all over the world have shown tremendous growth in recent years. In the wake of the present financial crisis, which is believed to have been exacerbated by OTC derivatives, increasing attention is being paid to analysing the regulatory environment of these markets. In...

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The New Basel Accord: Implications of the Co-existence between the Standardized Approach and the Internal Ratings-based Approach

Rime, Bertrand - 2003

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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Getting closer or falling apart? Euro countries after the Euro crisis

Bordignon, Massimo; Gatti, Nicolò; Onorato, … - 2021

performance such as the level of regulation of product and labor markets, as well as the trust in political institutions, quality … quality of governance as well as the level of social trust. The very different approach followed with the Covid crisis might …

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Trust in Banks? Evidence from normal times and from times of crises

Knell, Markus; Stix, Helmut - 2009

Trust in financial institutions is of great importance for financial intermediation. Against this background, we study … two questions: Has trust in banks declined during the global financial crisis and what factors determine the level of … trust in banks? Employing survey evidence from Austrian households, we show that trust in banks is mainly affected by …

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Bank Bailout Menus

Bhattacharya, Sudipto; Nyborg, Kjell G. - Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research North … - 2010

Bailing out banks requires overcoming debt overhang as well as dealing with adverseselection with respect to the quality of banks' balance sheets, in terms of heterogeneity inboth the likelihood and extent of their potential shortfalls, of future asset values vis-a-viscontractual debt...

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Risk-Taking Incentives, Governance, and Losses in theFinancial Crisis

Chesney, Marc; Stromberg, Jacob; Wagner, Alexander F. - Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research North … - 2010

This paper studies the extent to which risk-taking incentives of CEOs and other governancefeatures in a range of years prior to the recent financial crisis were related to the write-downsof U.S. financial institutions during the crisis. We document that institutions whose CEOs hadparticularly...

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Emergency Short Selling Restrictions in theCourse of the Financial Crisis

Gruenewald, Seraina N.; Wagner, Alexander F.; Weber, Rolf H. - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2010

This paper summarizes the short selling restrictions adopted—mainly on anemergency basis—in the time period of July 2008 up to mid-June 2010 in 56countries around the world. It is a supplement to a recent article of theauthors (Gruenewald et al., 2010) and gives a detailed overview of...

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Securitization, Deregulation, Economic Stability, and Financial Crisis. Part I: The evolution of securitization

Tymoigne, Eric - 2009

This study analyzes the trends in the financial sector over the past 30 years, and argues that unsupervised financial innovations and lenient government regulation are at the root of the current financial crisis and recession. Combined with a long period of economic expansion during which...

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Institutional prerequisites of financial fragility within Minsky's financial instability hypothesis: A proposal in terms of "institutional fragility"

Sinapi, Christine - 2011

The relevancy of Minsky's Financial Instability Hypothesis (FIH) in the current (and still unfolding) crisis has been clearly acknowledged by both economists and regulators. While most papers focus on discussing to what extent the FIH or Minsky's Big Bank/Big Government interpretation is...

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