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-owned mono-bank into a privatised bank-based financial system with developing capital and private equity markets. This country …
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. Then, we show how a central bank, by deciding on the money supply, may affect the revelation of information at equilibrium. …
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We analyse the potentially vulnerable and systemically relevant financial intermediation chain established by hedge funds and prime brokers. Our dataset covers the 306 largest global hedge funds and their prime brokers over the period July 2001 to December 2011. The study illustrates that hedge...
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segments, namely money markets, bond markets, equity markets and banking. Finally, we discuss recent policy initiatives aimed …
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This paper discusses a wide range of indicators of the degree of integration of the euro area banking system. It is concerned with volume data, a less developed field of research compared with studies on prices/rates. We first set out a methodological framework, a mixture of elementary and more...
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We derive fundamental new theory for measuring monetary service flows aggregated over countries within the European Monetary Union (EMU). We develop three increasingly restrictive approaches: (1) the heterogeneous agents approach, (2) the multilateral representative agent approach, and (3) the...
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The role of money in society has been a controversial topic in economic theory over many years. Particular attention … has been devoted to the analysis whether there should be competition in the supply of money, or whether this is best left … today we have competition between issuers of money, namely in the international context, with electronic money, and in large …
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In 2006 the external net borrowing requirement of the Spanish economy was almost 8% of GDP, after having been in balance between 1993 and 1998. This increased borrowing requirement is the financial mirror image of a growth model, in which corporate and households' investments are generating an...
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In 2007, 5.6 million persons were employed in EU27 financial services. 65% of these worked in banks, 20% in the insurance industry and 15% for intermediaries. The sector represented 2.7% of total employment in Europe. Between 2000 and 2006, data from the Labour Force Survey shows a shift of...
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