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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...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011689937
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Ben Bernanke and Bagehot's rules
Hogan, Thomas L.; Le, Linh; Salter, Alexander William - In: Journal of money, credit and banking : JMCB 47 (2015) 2/3, pp. 333-348
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The power of inaction : bank bailouts in comparison
Woll, Cornelia - 2014
financial sector is intimately involved in the design of bailout packages; elsewhere it chooses to remain at arm's length. Such … design of bailout packages in favor of the industry. She demonstrates that financial institutions were most powerful in those … power to remain collectively inactive, she argues, has had important consequences for bailout arrangements and ultimately …
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Creating a Template for Banking Insolvency Law Reform after the Collapse of Northern Rock
Tomasic, Roman - 2009
The passage of the Banking Act 2009 (UK) was a major landmark in the development of legal tools for the handling of banks in financial difficulties in the United Kingdom. The Act has emerged from over a year of economic crisis and from politically charged debates and consultations that followed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159109
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Banking crisis resolution policy - lessons from recent experience : which elements are needed for robust and efficient crisis resolution?
Mayes, David G. - 2009
The current financial crisis has sparked intense debate about how weak banks should be resolved. Despite international efforts to coordinate and converge on such policies, national policy advice and resolution practices differ. The resolution methods adopted in the Nordic banking crises in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003891719
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Book Review : 'Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises & Scarce Credit' by Charles W. Calomiris and Stephen H. Haber
Ciuriak, Dan - 2016
Fragile by Design suggests a unifying explanation for systematic differences across countries in the domestic supply of credit and the susceptibility of banking systems to failure. The centrepiece is a theory of “The Game of Bank Bargains” (“the Game”), which is played between bankers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988626
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Banking Crisis Resolution Policy - Lessons from Recent Experience - Which Elements are Needed for Robust and Efficient Crisis Resolution?
Mayes, David G. - 2013
The current financial crisis has sparked intense debate about how weak banks should be resolved. Despite international efforts to coordinate and converge on such policies, national policy advice and resolution practices differ. The resolution methods adopted in the Nordic banking crises in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095558
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The Rescue of Northern Rock : Nationalization in the Shadow of Insolvency
Tomasic, Roman - 2009
The collapse of Northern Rock plc in September 2007 as a result of the financial crisis that had its origins in the sub-prime mortgage bubble in the United States focussed attention on the limited nature of governmental powers in the UK to deal with banks in distress or facing insolvency. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158720
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Fiduciary Principles in Banking Law
Tuch, Andrew F. - 2020
When are banks fiduciaries of their customers and clients? This question is of more than theoretical interest given the organizational structure of modern financial institutions and the broad-ranging functions they perform. In this chapter of the Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law, I canvass...
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