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États-Unis,“soupe primitive” de la crise financière

Brack, Estelle - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

It is likely that such a crisis could not be born somewhere else only in the United States. The "current financial disaster" is the fruit of the combination of specific factors in the US, where elements were gathered to catalyse such a crisis, like, someway, some "primal soup" where were...

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From Tellers to Sellers: Changing Employment Relations in Banks

Regini, Marino (contributor); Kitay, Jim (contributor); … - The MIT Press

Once stolid, strictly regulated organizations that epitomized lifetime employment, retail banks are now highly competitive enterprises with fragmented career structures and a new focus on sales and performance. Because banks are a major employer of labor, such changes have important implications...

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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 … of regulation and supervision and in particular on the role of the central bank. He sets the context by explaining that … that the conduct of monetary policy must be informed by the central banks analysis of financial stability and the …

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Overcoming the Financial Crisis in the United States

Michelis, Andrea de - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

The global financial crisis that emerged in mid 2007 has caused considerable economic disruptions in the United States and elsewhere, and exposed major flaws in the global financial system. After examining the origins of the crisis, this paper recommends specific policy responses to resolve the...

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Bank Regulation in the United States

Barth, James R.; Phumiwasana, Triphon; Lu, Wenling - In: CESifo DICE Report 6 (2008) 3, pp. 3-8

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Domestic and International Banking

Lewis, Mervyn K.; Davis, Kevin T. - The MIT Press

This text provides a modern statement of the theory and practice of domestic and international banking and finance. Today, banks are no longer limited to retail deposit-taking and lending operations; they engage in wholesale banking activities, off-balance sheet business, and activities beyond...

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Hypotekarna a financna kriza 2008: Priciny, opatrenia, dosledky

Grancay, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The 2008 financial crisis has its origins in the US real estate market. By means of purchases of US mortgage-backed securities it spread to the portfolios of financial companies everywhere in the world and it is making its way to the real economy. The measures to be taken include cutting...

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Foreign Competition and Disintermediation: No Threat to the German Banking System?

Buch, Claudia M.; Golder, Stefan M. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999

The German financial system is characterized by lower degrees of penetration by foreign commercial banks and of (bank) disintermedation than, for instance, that of the United States. These differences could be attributed to the fact that universal banking in Germany creates implicit barriers to...

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Property Prices and Real Estate Financing in a Turbulent World

Carrasco-Gallego, José A.; Hubbard, Robert Glenn; … - SUERF - The European Money and Finance Forum

On 15th November 2012 in Copenhagen, SUERF and Nykredit in association with Danmarks Nationalbank organised a conference on “Property prices and real estate financing in a turbulent world.” The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the conference.

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