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An analysis of systemic risk in alternative securities settlement architectures

Iori, Giulia - 2004

This paper compares securities settlement gross and netting architectures. It studies settlement risk arising from exogenous operational delays and compares settlement failures between the two architectures as functions of the length of the settlement interval under different market conditions....

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Market power and fiscal policy in OECD countries

Afonso, António; Costa, Luís F. - 2010

We compute average mark-ups as a measure of market power throughout time and study their interaction with fiscal policy and macroeconomic variables in a VAR framework. From impulse-response functions the results, with annual data for a set of 14 OECD countries covering the period 1970-2007, show...

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Wage-setting behavior in France

Montornès, Jérémi; Sauner-Leroy, Jacques-Bernard - 2009

We investigate the wage-setting behavior of French companies using an ad-hoc survey conducted specifically for this study. Our main results are the following. i) Wages are changed infrequently. The mean duration of wage contracts is one year. Wage changesoccur at regular intervals during the...

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On the importance of sectoral and regional shocks for price-setting

Beck, Guenter W.; Hubrich, Kirstin; Marcellino, Massimiliano - 2011

We use a novel disaggregate sectoral euro area data set with a regional breakdown to investigate price changes and suggest a new method to extract factors from over-lapping data blocks. This allows us to separately estimate aggregate, sectoral, country-specific and regional components of price...

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Cooperation in international banking supervision

Holthausen, Cornelia; Rønde, Thomas - 2004

This paper analyzes cooperation between sovereign national authorities in the supervision and regulation of a … multinational bank. We take a political economy approach to regulation and assume that supervisors maximize the welfare of their own … the countries are perfectly aligned, Þrst best closure regulation cannot be implemented; (2) the more aligned the …

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Institutions and service employment

Messina, Julián - 2004

We live in a service economy, but the extent of development of service employment differs across developed countries. This paper assesses the role of structural factors and institutions in explaining the common patterns and main differences in the recent expansion of service employment in OECD...

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Pricing payment cards

Bedre-Defolie, Özlem; Calvano, Emilio - 2009

In a payment card association such as Visa, each time a consumer pays by card, the bank of the merchant (acquirer) pays an interchange fee (IF) to the bank of the cardholder (issuer) to carry out the transaction. This paper studies the determinants of socially and privately optimal IFs in a card...

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Liquidity requirements and payment delays

Schulz, Christian - 2011

The paper presents an analysis of the trade-offs of participants of different type between payment delay and liquidity requirement on the basis of synthetically generated data. The generation of the synthetic transaction data set for a simple RTGS system is described and calibrated using real...

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Regulatory effects of the amendment to the HwO in 2004 in German craftsmanship

Rostam-Afschar, Davud

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Finance and growth in the EU

De Ávila, Diego Romero - 2003

deregulation and harmonisation of banking laws at the EU level has brought about on growth over the last 40 years. Our main …

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