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-market features in banking gives rise to counter-cyclical credit spreads. In our setting, monopolistically competitive banks set … phase of economic expansion, banks might find it optimal to lower current lending rates to build up a larger customer base …
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Financial stability features prominently among the goals of several post­crisis macroeconomic policies around the world. Being a systemic characteristic, financial stability requires a systemic analysis, which only macroeconomics can offer logically. Yet, the current way of doing macroeconomics...
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The modern economic theory implemented today is inherently flawed. Unfortunately these flaws are not apparent in contemporary economic theory which is built on the idea that scarcity is an ever present condition; an approach referred to as scarce resource theory (SRT) in operating level...
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infrastructure. On the basis or their history, culture and ethics, Italian banks could help to achieve these purposes and could be a …
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It is too early to evaluate the effects of political economy measures and to analyze deeply time and ways that characterize the current global crisis. Effect of the political economy actions are not immediate and could be evaluated only looking at expected conditions and perspectives. In fact...
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This paper elaborates on the economic operating system (EOS) the role it can play in growth. It focuses on markets, price determination and forces of demand and supply in order to illustrate how an EOS model offers greater economic growth, stability and safety. This paper delves into market...
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It is high time we rediscovered the role of the financial cycle in macroeconomics. In the environment that has prevailed for at least three decades now, it is not possible to understand business fluctuations and the corresponding analytical and policy challenges without understanding the...
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«Everything which involves turbulence is enormously more complicated, not just a little bit more complicated, not just one year more schooling, just enormously more complicated». (Mandelbrot interview with PBS News Hour, October 21th, 2008 by SOLMAN P.)
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This paper considers a model of firms' financing based on the existence of a moral hazard problem in the choice of investment projects by a heterogeneous population of entrepreneurs. Two alternative ways of funding these projects, called unmonitored (or market) and monitored (or bank) lending,...
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to commercial banks. During the crisis, however, the Federal Reserve created a number of facilities to support brokers … banks to nonbank financial institutions. In a specialized financial system, which the GSA had helped create, the use of the … lender-of-last-resort safety net could be more comfortably limited to commercial banks. However, the elimination of GSA …
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