[...]In this article, we measure banks’ alternative fundingsources for Fedwire funds transfers throughout the day, usinga data set that includes all banks’ Fedwire funds transfers andFederal Reserve System deposits. This approach allows us togauge the importance of incoming payments as a...

Globalization and technological innovation are two of themost pervasive forces affecting the financial system andits infrastructure. Perhaps nowhere are these trends moreapparent than in the internationalization and automation ofpayments. The evolving landscape is most obvious in retailpayments...

This article investigates the factors influencing the timingand funding of payments in the CHAPS Sterling system,drawing where appropriate on comparisons with paymentactivity in Fedwire...

[...]This paper traces the evolution of Fedwire fromtwelve separate payment operations, linked only by aninterdistrict communications arrangement, to a more unifiedand efficient system. Our account highlights both thedifficulties the Federal Reserve encountered as it soughtto standardize and...

In this paper we present experimental research examining the ability of individuals to make good retrospective evaluations of payment sequences. Inspired by the evidence on systematic biases inthe retrospective evaluation of affective episodes involving pain and pleasure we designed choice...

The present discussion paper investigates the market dynamics in the early phase of an in-dustry`s life cycle. The industry life cycle model is so widely accepted and its basic premises so taken for granted that it has become conventional wisdom in business. However, a num-ber of facets of the...

Besides "Financial Intermediation I" which describes the financial service industrys role as a middleman between the ultimative saver and the ultimative investor, there does exist a second sphere of financial intermediation...

Both the quantity and quality of education and training in Britain are being comparedunfavourably with arrangements in other countries at a time when public expenditure isfacing the most stringent constraints. This paper starts from the presumption thatimprovements in the quality and quantity of...