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customers who sign up for the bank's online banking serviceuse it substantially. We use exogenous variation in delays in … laboratory findings on consumer memory. Weexplore this question using data from a German retail bank where only24% of the …
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rate, if any. The state health industry was compared to the banking industry as a benchmark, on the basis that the banking … beliefs of senior state health executives. The second study was based upon a survey of state health and banking managers. The …
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reclaim a sense of purpose lost in banking. These observations hold whether survivors find employment in incumbent firms …
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bank can commit itself to increasing future fees for online banking services, (ii) The bank can afford to offer discounts … banking industry. Employing a game-theoretic analysis, the first paper explains the economic reasoning behind the trend in …. The second paper studies pricing decisions for online banking given the existence of network externalities. Most …
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This first chapter develops an economic model of the firm linking current financial and non-financial measures to future earnings for retail banks. The data support the associations among current financial and non-financial measures predicted by model, suggesting that the economic model is...
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I investigate: (i) Agency problems between debt and equity holders, and their impact on capital structure and investment policy; (ii) Agency problems between firm managers and capital providers.The first chapter, "Investment and Financing under Reverse Asset Substitution", shows that banks place...
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for the Bank of Canada using real-time data. The purpose of using a nonparametric method is to leave the functional form … indicate that the Bank of Canada behaves in a forward-looking manner, targeting inflation about two quarters ahead. A number of … tests are performed to check if the BoC acts in an asymmetric manner and evidence suggests that the Bank acts more …
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This thesis examines the pricing of volatility on organized U.S. options exchanges from October 31, 2005 through November 1, 2007. The research is motivated in part by the rapid growth of hedge funds that trade volatility and in part by the growing importance that the financial markets place on...
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banking in Australia will be tested. Design/methodology/approach – A three stage research method is employed. First, estimates … of foreign bank efficiency are drawn from a larger sample of domestic and foreign banks in Australia. Efficiency is … used to determine which of the factors from the second stage determine differences in foreign bank efficiency. Findings …
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This paper integrates the defensive expansion hypothesis in multinational banking with the internalisation approach to … size, but has little impact upon multinational bank profits. There is some evidence that defensive expansion impacts upon … the type of organisational form adopted by the multinational bank in the host nation. …
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