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In the wake of the global financial crisis that erupted in 2008, there has been extensive commentary and regulatory focus on the 'Too Big to Fail' issue. In this paper, we survey the proposed solutions and regulatory initiatives that have been undertaken. We conduct a longitudinal analysis of...
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operating de facto as the global central bank providing international lender of last resort support to the system. It is a …
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The seeds for the 2007-09 financial collapse were sewn over many years and nurtured by ill-advised governmental housing policy, the presence of pervasive fraud both large and small and the widespread failure of personal integrity. A chronology of bad choices made by individuals and the...
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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 … outside the bank as depositors rushed to withdraw their deposits. There was always a fear that this could spark a systemic run …
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This paper explores a natural connection between fiscal multipliers and foreign holdings of public debt. Although fiscal expansions can raise domestic economic activity through various channels, they can also have crowding-out effects if the resources used to acquire public debt reduce domestic...
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This paper describes George Washington's administration response to a plea for emergency war financing from French colonists who were trying to quash a slave rebellion in Haiti (then Saint Domingue). Washington bypassed Congress and authorized assistance to the French planters, hoping that...
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