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California during the National Banking Era (1864-1914). This period has been intensively analyzed at the macroeconomic level, but …
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This paper provides a new interpretation of the early rise of rating agencies in the United States (initially known as Mercantile Agencies). We explain this American exceptionality through an inductive approach that revisits the conventional parallel with the UK. In contrast with earlier...
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Basically, shadow banking is an original kind of business organization, or better a set of institutions and markets … the hard core of financialization. Shadow banking manifests itself through a variety of activities carried out since time … banking as an anomaly of financial markets, to which it appears thoroughly linked. In this paper we try to analyze the subject …
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This paper uses the variability of money market rates to compare the conduct of the central bank's key market operation as a fixed-rate tender (FRT) or a variable-rate tender (VRT). Nowadays, leading central banks generally use FRTs or other approaches (e.g. target rates) which yield step...
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duopolistic loan market both went under simultaneously. The banking system was "free", as central bank, deposit insurance, and … duopolistic bank loan market and to provide lessons for banking regulation and policies, the too-big-to-fail doctrine in … that year triggered a regime change into simultaneous loan expansion that ultimately precipitated a systemic banking …
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Calculation of the unit cost of financial intermediation for 20 countries from 1970 to 2015 has produced the following results. (i) Most countries' unit costs decline and converge in the long run. (ii) Unit costs were much higher in the 1970s and 1980s, coinciding with high nominal rates, as...
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This paper presents and explains the newly rediscovered and transcribed daily market gold price from 1919-1968 for the world's main gold market during the period, the London Gold Fixing Auction. The paper highlights several novel features previously not discussed in the literature, such as gold...
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their supposed role in corporate governance and industrial finance. Many discussions distort the German Banking system by … banks and other banking groups. Tracing the historical development of the German banking system from the early nineteenth …
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Research on 'trust' now forms a prominent part of the research agenda in history and the social sciences. Although this research has generated useful insights, the idea of trust has been used so widely and loosely that it risks creating more confusion than clarity. This essay argues that to the...
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Supervisors sometimes have to manage both the micro- and macro- prudential dimensions of bank stability. These may either conflict or complement each other. We analyze prudential supervision by the Central Bank of Russia (CBR). We find evidence of micro-prudential concerns, measured as the...
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