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United Kingdom; 2013 Article IV Consultation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This staff report on United Kingdom’s (UK) 2013 Article IV Consultation highlights economic policies and development. The UK economy grew by about ¼ percent in 2012. Net trade reduced growth by 0.6 percentage points of GDP, the biggest drag since 2005, and well above staff projections....
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UK banks face huge investments to comply with Bank of England stress test
Thun, Christian - In: Journal of risk management in financial institutions 7 (2014) 4, pp. 389-394
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Modelling and simulating the banking sectors of the US, Germany and the UK
Davis, E. Philip; Liadze, Iana - 2012
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On the role of volatility for modelling risk exposure
Olmo, Jose - In: International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance 1 (2008) 2, pp. 219-234
We show in this paper that volatility measures can be misleading indicators of risk if returns do not follow a Gaussian distribution. A more reliable measure of risk is the probability distribution of the return on an asset. Estimators for these measures are usually challenging and need of...
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On the role of volatility for modelling risk exposure
Olmo, Jose - In: International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance 1 (2008) 2, pp. 219-234
We show in this paper that volatility measures can be misleading indicators of risk if returns do not follow a Gaussian distribution. A more reliable measure of risk is the probability distribution of the return on an asset. Estimators for these measures are usually challenging and need of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008538671
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The Failure of Northern Rock: A multi-dimensional Case Study
Congdon, Tim; Goodhart, Charles A.E.; Eisenbeis, Robert A. - 2009
In August 2007 the United Kingdom experienced its first bank run in over 140 years. Although Northern Rock was not a particularly large bank (it was at the time ranked 7th in terms of assets) it was nevertheless a significant retail bank and a substantial mortgage lender. In fact, ten years...
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Hedge fund regulation by banking supervision : a comparative institutional analysis
Kaal, Wulf Alexander; Kaal, Wulf Alexander - 2006
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The failure of Northern Rock : a multi-dimensional case study
Bruni, Franco (ed.); Llewellyn, David T. (ed.) - 2009
In August 2007 the United Kingdom experienced its first bank run in over 140 years. Although Northern Rock was not a particularly large bank (it was at the time ranked 7th in terms of assets) it was nevertheless a significant retail bank and a substantial mortgage lender. In fact, ten years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705347
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The Failure of Northern Rock - A Multidimensional Case Study
Eisenbeis, Robert Allen; Taylor, Michael William; … - SUERF - The European Money and Finance Forum
dramatically overlooking the fundamental role of capital in banking. The central conclusion is that the Northern Rock crisis was a … information flows it receives through its regular contact with financial markets and institutions. The issue of banking law reform … the issue of whether this might be premature in an increasingly cross-border banking system. He further argues that the …
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The evolution of capital adequacy rules : the contrasting cases of Sweden and Britain
Malmström Rognes, Åsa - In: Scandinavian economic history review 70 (2022) 1, pp. 19-32
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