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Who can tell which banks will fail?
Blickle, Kristian; Brunnermeier, Markus Konrad; Luck, … - 2022
We use the German Crisis of 1931, a key event of the Great Depression, to study how depositors behave during a bank run in the absence of deposit insurance. We find that deposits decline by around 20 percent during the run and that there is an equal outflow of retail and nonfinancial wholesale...
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Regulatorische Auswirkungen der Finanzmarktkrise auf den Sparkassen-Finanzverbund
Hönig, Michaela - 2015
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Portugal's Banking and Financial Crises : Unexpected Consequences of Monetary Integration?
Cardão-Pito, Tiago - 2016
Portugal's current financial crisis might be related to a banking crisis resulting from joining the Euro. The new … if all of these risks had disappeared. They began pumping money in Portugal, by borrowing intensively in Euros abroad at … and sovereign debt dramatically increased, which further soared when the Government rescued banks. Portugal was then …
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Portugal's banking and financial crises : unexpected consequences of monetary integration?
Cardao-Pito, Tiago; Baptista, Diogo - In: Journal of economic policy reform 20 (2017) 2, pp. 165-191
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The past, present and future of banking history
Colvin, Christopher L. - 2015
This essay discusses trends in new banking history scholarship. It does so by conducting bibliometric content analysis of the entire literature involving the history of banks, bankers and banking published in all major academic journals since the year 2000. It places this recent scholarship in...
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Public borrowing in harsh times : the league of nations loans revisited
Flores Zendejas, Juan; Decorzant, Yann - 2012
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The League of Nations and the Foreshadowing of the International Monetary Fund
Pauly, Louis W. - 2012
The very phrase "League of Nations" is a metaphor for international organizational failure. In the wake of the war it was designated to prevent, the League became the example to be avoided in building new multilateral institutions. Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that our textbooks on...
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Role of the IMF in the Global Financial Crisis
Xafa, Miranda - 2013
In this article, I review the role of the IMF in the global crisis and argue that the Fund has emerged as a powerful institutional force, providing analysis and recommendations that have served as the basis of official action on several fronts. By contrast, the Fund was barking up the wrong tree...
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The First Global Emerging Markets Investor : Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust 1880-1913
Esteves, Rui - 2013
The Foreign and Colonial Investment Trust is the oldest surviving closed end fund, having been established in 1868. Its early success and emulation were related to its identification of a missing market - the provision of a wholesale diversified vehicle for the investing public. This paper is a...
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When 'No News' is Bad News : Complexity and Uncertainty in the Global Crisis of 1914
Fohlin, Caroline - 2016
I use the global crisis of 1914 as a window onto the phenomenon of investor reaction to complex news — such as sudden political upheaval. Based on a novel database of all stocks traded on the NYSE during 1914, along with “real-time” news accounts from major newspapers, I show that NYSE...
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