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Alexandrova-Kabadjova, Biliana; Negrín, José Luis - 2009

This paper investigates the impact on the network growth of the level of merchant discount, the level of Multilateral Interchange Fee (MIF), and the consumers' and the merchants' awareness of positive network effects. In an artificial market, in which issuers and acquirers belong to the same...

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Bank mergers, competition and liquidity

Carletti, Elena; Hartmann, Philipp; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2003

We model the impact of bank mergers on loan competition, banks' reserve holdings and aggregate liquidity. Banks compete … in liquidity risk and expected liquidity needs for each bank and for the banking system. Large mergers tend to increase … expected aggregate liquidity needs, and thus the liquidity provision by the central bank. Comparative statics suggest that a …

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Is inflation persistence intrinsic in industrial economies?

Levin, Andrew T.; Piger, Jeremy M. - 2004

We apply both classical and Bayesian econometric methods to characterize the dynamic behavior of inflation for twelve industrial countries over the period 1984-2003, using four different price indices for each country. In particular, we estimate a univariate autoregressive (AR) model for each...

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Koeppl, Thorsten V.; Monnet, Cyril - 2004

Exchanges and other trading platforms are often vertically integrated to carry out trading, clearing and settlement as one operation. We show that such vertical silos can prevent efficiency gains from horizontal consolidation of trading and settlement platforms to be realized. Independent of the...

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Raising rival's costs in the securities settlement industry

Holthausen, Cornelia; Tapking, Jens - 2004

The competition between a central securities depository (CSD) and a custodian bank is analysed in a Stackelberg model …. The CSD sets its prices first, the custodian bank follows. There are many investor banks each of which has to decide … whether to use the service of the CSD or of the custodian bank. This decision depends on the prices and the investor bank …

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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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Risk spillover among hedge funds

Klaus, Benjamin; Rzepkowski, Bronka - 2009

This paper aims at analysing the mortality patterns of hedge funds over the period January 1994 to May 2008. In particular, we investigate the extent to which a spillover of risk among hedge funds through redemptions and failures of other funds has affected the probability of fund failure. We...

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Financial sector taxation

Europäische Kommission - 2010

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Public sector efficiency

Afonso, António; Schuknecht, Ludger; Tanzi, Vito - 2003

We compute public sector performance (PSP) and efficiency (PSE) indicators, comprising a composite and seven sub-indicators, for 23 industrialised countries. The first four sub-indicators are u0093opportunityu0094 indicators that take into account administrative, education and health outcomes...

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How persistent is disaggregate inflation?

Lünnemann, Patrick; Mathä, Thomas Y. - 2004

This paper analyses the degree of inflation persistence in the EU15, the euro area and each of its member states using disaggregate price indices from the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices. Our results reveal substantial heterogeneity across countries and indices. The overall results, based on...

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