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The Causes of the Financial Crisis
Hellwig, Martin - In: CESifo Forum 09 (2008) 4, pp. 12-21
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The Financial Crisis in Japan – Are There Similarities to the Current Situation?
Mayr, Johannes - In: CESifo Forum 09 (2008) 4, pp. 64-68
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What explains global exchange rate movements during the financial crisis?
Fratzscher, Marcel - 2009
A striking and unexpected feature of the financial crisis has been the sharp appreciation of the US dollar against virtually all currencies globally. The paper finds that negative US-specific macroeconomic shocks during the crisis have triggered a significant strengthening of the US dollar,...
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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...
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Estimating the shape of economic crises under heterogeneity
Dovern, Jonas; Jannsen, Nils - 2009
During the ongoing financial crisis the analysis of similar historical crises has gained more and more attention among economic researchers and forecasters. Existing studies, however, do not tackle the immense heterogeneity that is present in cross-country samples in a formal and consistent way....
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Aging in the USA: Similarities and disparities across time and space
Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Erel, Devin; Strulik, Holger - 2019
We study biological aging of elderly U.S. Americans born 1904-1966. We use thirteen waves of the Health and Retirement … Study and construct a health deficit index as the number of health deficits present in a person measured relative to the … number of potential deficits. We find that, on average, Americans develop 5 percent more health deficits per year, that men …
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American Delusion: Life Expectancy and Welfare in the US from an International Perspective
Soares, Rodrigo R.; Rocha, Rudi; Szklo, Michel - 2021
Recent increases in mortality have brought life expectancy back to the forefront of the public health debate in the US … average health performance of OECD countries at their typical health expenditures. …
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Property Prices and Real Estate Financing in a Turbulent World
Balling, Morten; Bentzen, Christian Sinding; Berg, Jesper; … - 2013
On 15th November 2012 in Copenhagen, SUERF and Nykredit in association with Danmarks Nationalbank organised a conference on “Property prices and real estate financing in a turbulent world.” The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the conference.
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Public Debt as Corporate Power: Mapping the New Aristocracy of Finance
Hager, Sandy Brian - 2015
In various writings Karl Marx made references to an ‘aristocracy of finance’ in Western Europe and the United States that dominated ownership of the public debt. Drawing on original research, this paper offers the first comprehensive analysis of the pattern of public debt ownership within...
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Cross-border banking on the two sides of the Atlantic: Does it have an impact on bank crisis management?
Nieto, Maria J.; Wall, Larry D. - 2015
In the United States and the European Union (EU), political incentives to oppose cross-border banking have been strong in spite of the measurable benefits to the real economy from breaking down geographic barriers. Even a federal-level supervisor and safety net are not by themselves sufficient...
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