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Do borrower rights improve borrower outcomes? Evidence from the foreclosure process
Gerardi, Kristopher; Lambie-Hanson, Lauren; Willen, Paul S. - 2012
We evaluate the effects of laws designed to protect borrowers from foreclosure. We find that these laws delay but do not prevent foreclosures. We first compare states that require lenders to seek judicial permission to foreclose with states that do not. Borrowers in judicial states are no more...
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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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Monetary policy and capital regulation in the US and Europe
Cohen-Cole, Ethan; Morse, Jonathan - 2010
From the onset of the 2007-2009 crisis, the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank have aggressively lowered interest rates. Both sets of changes are at odds with an anti-inflationary stance of monetary policy; indeed, as the crisis began in August 2007 inflation expectations were high...
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Too big to fail: The transatlantic debate
Goldstein, Morris; Véron, Nicolas - 2011
Although the United States and the European Union were both seriously impacted by the financial crisis of 2007, the resulting policy debates and regulatory responses have differed considerably on the two sides of the Atlantic. In this paper the authors examine the debates on the problem posed by...
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Deutsche Finanzmarktregulierung nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg zwischen Risikoschutz und Wettbewerbssicherung
Franke, Günter - 2000
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Stock market valuation in the United States
Bisciari, Patrick; Durré, Alain; Nyssens, Alain - 2003
This paper gives an overview of some issues related to market valuation, focusing on the developments on the New York equity markets. The 42.4 p.c. fall in the S&P 500 price index between 24 March 2000 - when it reached its all-time high - and 31 December 2002 is situated in a very long term...
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Disclosure requirements, the release of new information and market efficiency: new insights from agent-based models
Hermsen, Oliver; Witte, Björn-Christopher; Westerhoff, … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010) 2010-7, pp. 1-26
We explore how disclosure requirements that regulate the release of new information may affect the dynamics of financial markets. Our analysis is based on three agent-based financial market models that are able to produce realistic financial market dynamics. We discover that the average...
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Can a less boring ECB remain accountable?
Pisani-Ferry, Jean; von Weizsäcker, Jakob - 2009
Through Bruegel's role on the Monetary Experts Panel for the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Bruegel scholars contributed to the Committee's Monetary Dialogue with the European Central Bank meeting on 28 September. In this briefing paper for the Panel, Director...
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Das "Internet der Dinge": Die Informatisierung der Arbeitswelt und des Alltags. Erläuterungen einer neuen Basistechnologie
Botthof, Alfons (contributor);  … - 2009
Das Potenzial der mit dem Paradigma 'Internet der Dinge' verbundenen Technologien und Infrastrukturen entwickelt sich … schleichend aber dennoch rasant und unaufhaltsam. Die Entwicklungen zum Internet der Dinge eröffnen durchaus ambivalente … 'Das Internet der Dinge - die Informatisierung des Alltags und der Arbeitswelt' (Dezember 2008) die Diskussion über …
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Die Bedeutung des Breitbandinternets für den Unternehmenserfolg: Projektbericht
Bertschek, Irene; Cerquera, Daniel; Klein, Gordon - 2010
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