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An interesting puzzle is that trade liberalization in the 1980s and 1990s has been associated with a sharp increase in the skill premium in both developed and developing countries.This is in contrast with neoclassical theory, according to which trade should increase therelative return of the...

Vorliegendes Dokument untersucht die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen des Outsourcing von Banken.

The divergence between increasingly supranational financial marketson the one hand and still largely national supervisory structures onthe other gives rise to tensions which reduce the effectiveness ofthe supervision.(...)

Aus dem Nebeneinander von globalem Finanzmarkt und noch weitgehend national organisierter Regulierung entstehen Spannungen. Die parallele Durchführung der Aufsicht durch nationale Behörden in einem einheitlichen Markt droht dasGebot der Wettbewerbsneutralität zu verletzen.(...)

[...]I will begin with deregulation. Compared with the regulatedEuropean financial systems of the postwar period, mostEuropean countries have been liberalizing their financialservices sectors. This trend began in the mid-1960s andaccelerated in the 1980s and 1990s. At the same time,...

[...]In this article, we provide insight into the policyaspects of this informational time decay by assessing howthe length of time between bank examinations affects thequality of information available to supervisors. For thesepurposes, we define the quality of information in terms ofhow...

An operational macroprudential approach to financial stability requires tools that attribute system-wide risk to individual institutions. Making use of constructs from game theory, we propose an attribution methodology that has a number of appealing features: it can be used in conjunction with...

Three propositions: Insurance Companies can be systemic importance; Insurance companies should be subject to tougher regulation and supervision; Risks should be assessed on a group-wise basis...