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The risks confronted by grain and cotton farmers are of particular interest, given the changing role of the Government after passage of the 1996 Farm Act. With the shift toward less government intervention in the post-1996 Farm Act environment, a more sophisticated understanding of risk and risk...
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This paper studies the role of leasing of productive assets. When capital is leased (or rented), it is more easily … repossessed and hence leasing has higher debt capacity and relaxes financing constraints. However, leasing gives rise to an agency … leasing provided by leasing firms, namely that leasing “preserves capital,†which is generally considered a fallacy in the …
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main modern forms of leasing which are more common in business finance. …One of the main reasons that leasing is a financial alternative so popular in the world is the one that synthesize its … them by purchasing fixed assets. This article aims to approach the leasing as a source or as a financing alternative …
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This paper addresses factors which have prompted the need for further revision of banking regulation, with particular reference to the Capital Requirements Directive. The Capital Requirements Directive (CRD), which comprises the 2006/48/EC Directive on the taking up and pursuit of the business...
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The article surveys the literature pertaining to the Basel II and concludes with the concerns germane to India in this regard
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The new Basel accord is slated to come into effect in India around 2007 raising the question of how the revised standards will influence bank behaviour. Using a simple theoretical model, it is shown that the revised accord will result in asymmetric differences in the efficacy of monetary policy...
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The financial crisis prompted closer supervision of securitisation as a mechanism for refinancing the economy. In France the principal underlying assets of securitisations are bank loans and credits to resident households and non-financial companies.
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In this chapter I argue that as a response to the introduction of capital requirements in the form of risk weights investors might potentially choose riskier portfolios than before the regulation – this is, presumably, not what the regulation intends to achieve. That is, while regulation most...
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This paper traces the developments that have contributed to the importance of risk in regulation. Not only does it consider theories associated with risk, it also discusses explanations as to why risk has become so important within regulatory and governmental circles. Two forms of risk...
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I made reference to the mythological Antheus to remark that the economy is better to have roots to increase its robustness, to protect it from adverse shocks. What would these roots be? Some are of an institutional nature and they determine the quality of public policy, the ability to respond to...
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