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How Banks Construct and Manage Risk : A Sociological Study of Small Firm Lending in Britain and Germany
Quack, Sigrid - 2012
This paper analyses the role of banks in financing SMEs in Britain and Germany. It applies a sociological institutionalist approach to understand how banks construct and manage risk, relating to SME business. The empirical analysis is based on the results of a comparative survey of a sample of...
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Money, States and Empire: Financial Integration Cycles and Institutional Change in Central Europe, 1400-1520
Chilosi, David; Volckart, Oliver - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009
advanced in a cyclical fashion over the fifteenth century. The cycles were associated with changes in the money supply. Long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870400
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After the Great Debasement, 1544-51: Did Gresham’s Law Apply?
Li, Ling-Fan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009
the disappearance of good money over this period has provided any solid quantitative assessment of the effectiveness of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870464
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The Effects Of The 1925 Portuguese Bank Note Crisis
Wigan, Henry - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
bank through which he concealed over £3m in counterfeit money.[...] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870587
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Time is Money: A Re-assessment of the Passenger Social Savings From Victorian British Railways
Leunig, Timothy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
saving money to saving time came when railway technology stopped simply fulfilling existing demand more cheaply (travel for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870947
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Money and Liquidity in Financial Markets
Nyborg, Kjell G.; Östberg, Per - Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research North … - 2010
We argue that there is a connection between the interbank market for liquidity and thebroader financial markets, which has its basis in demand for liquidity by banks. Tightnessin the interbank market for liquidity leads banks to engage in what we term “liquiditypull-back,” which involves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009305106
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The global financial crisis and a new capitalism?
Bresser-Pereira, Luiz Carlos - 2010
-based on self-regulated and efficient markets. Although laissez-faire capitalism is intrinsically unstable, the lessons of the … regulations that led to the '30 glorious years of capitalism' (1948-77) and that could have helped avoid a financial crisis as … to predict. It will not be financialized, but the glory years' tendencies toward a global and knowledge-based capitalism …
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How National are Business Systems? The Role of Different State Types and Complementary Institutions in Constructing Homogenous Systems of Economic Coordination and Control
Whitley, Richard - Manchester Business School - 2003
A central tenet of economic sociology is that culture and regulatory institutions help to constitute the nature of economic actors and guide their actions, thus affecting economic outcomes (see, e.g., DiMaggio, 1994; Smelser and Swedberg, 1994). As socially organised agents operating in different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869981
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Ecological contradictions of Labour's Green New Deal
Neal, Luke - 2021
This paper offers an analysis and critique of the Green Industrial Revolution proposed by the Labour Party in 2019. It identifies this policy as a variant of the Keynesian Green New Deal, which has been interpreted favourably by many socialists as a programme for climate stabilisation and an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012406276
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How large is the housing wealth effect? A new approach
Carroll, Christopher D.; Otsuka, Misuzu; Slacalek, Jirka - 2006
This paper presents a simple new method for estimating the size of ‘wealth effects?on aggregate consumption. The method exploits the well-documented sluggishness of consumption growth (often interpreted as ‘habits?in the asset pricing literature) to distinguish between short-run and long-run...
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