Similar Search Results

The Failure of Northern Rock: A multi-dimensional Case Study

Congdon, Tim; Goodhart, Charles A.E.; Eisenbeis, Robert A. - 2009

In August 2007 the United Kingdom experienced its first bank run in over 140 years. Although Northern Rock was not a particularly large bank (it was at the time ranked 7th in terms of assets) it was nevertheless a significant retail bank and a substantial mortgage lender. In fact, ten years...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011689937

L’Angleterre, le Brexit et l’Afrique

Kohnert, Dirk - 2018

High-flying illusions on the part of the proponents and grim predictions on the part of the sceptics have characterised the controversy around Brexit. The article assesses five key issues at stake for post-Brexit relationships between Britain, the EU, and Africa: market access, foreign direct...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011965450

Stock Market Reactions to Legislated Tax Changes: Evidence from the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom

Hayo, Bernd; Mierzwa, Sascha - 2020

We study the effect of tax policy on stock market returns in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom using GARCH models and a unique daily dataset of legislative tax changes during the period 1 December 1978 to 31 January 2018. We find that days of discretionary tax legislation during...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012543679

Labor and Financial Market Interactions: The Case of Labor Income Risk and Car Insurance in the UK 1969-95

Koeniger, Winfried - 2001

and car insurance using data from the UK. The main empirical results are: ? higher labor income risk induces a higher … demand for car insurance. ? the effects of increases in labor income risk after 1979 seem to be more than offset by a more …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262448

Why did shareholder liability disappear?

Bogle, David A.; Campbell, Gareth; Coyle, Christopher; … - 2022

Why did shareholder liability disappear? We address this question by looking at its use by British insurance companies …) shareholders saw an opportunity to expunge something they disliked when insurance companies grew in size. Using hand … merger movement increased the size of insurance companies which meant that they were better able to pool risks. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013465609

Were we really all in it together? The distributional effects of the 2010 - 2015 UK Coalition government's tax-benefit policy changes: an end-of-term update

De Agostini, Paola; Hills, John; Sutherland, Holly - 2015

This paper examines the distributional impacts of the changes to benefits, tax credits, pensions and direct taxes between the UK Elections in May 2010 and in May 2015. It also looks ahead to the longer-term effects of changes and plans that were announced by the 2010-2015 Coalition government,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646641