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Non-Banking Financial Institutions and the Practice of Usury
NYOBE, Joseph M. - 2014
has arisen with him. However, along Non-Banking financial institutions – among microfinance institutions – usurers still …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056999
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Corporate Governance in the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis : Evidence from Financial Institutions Worldwide
Erkens, David H. - 2012
This paper investigates the influence of corporate governance on financial firms' performance during the 2007-2008 financial crisis. Using a unique dataset of 296 financial firms from 30 countries that were at the center of the crisis, we find that firms with more independent boards and higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117085
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Surveillance by International Institutions : Lessons from the Global Financial and Economic Crisis
Shigehara, Kumiharu - 2011
and were rarely followed up. Important issues, notably the weak capital base and lack of resilience of the banking systems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124113
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Regulating for Financial System Development, Financial Institutions Stability, and Financial Innovation
Mason, Joseph R. - 2009
Financial innovation is inextricably tied to asymmetric information and therefore sets the stage for financial crises. Over history, every truly meaningful crisis has had elements of asymmetric information, particularly affecting innovative financial instruments that are primary market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160426
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Diversity and Resilience : Lessons from the Financial Crisis
Jordan, Cally - 2009
banking directly to supercharged capital markets, Main Street to Wall Street. This was not just a housing bubble bursting; it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156547
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Regulatory Arbitrage and Hedge Fund Regulation : A Need for a Transnational Response?
Nabilou, Hossein - 2017
Regulatory arbitrage is an indispensable element of regulatory competition as it provides regulatory substitutes for firms, and allows those firms to optimally benefit from such competition. This also increases the elasticity of demand for regulators and engenders accountability among them....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974012
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Unitized Risk and Real Rates of Return : A Historical Evolution of the Leading International Stock Exchanges
Nowak, Alojzy Z. - 2015
Financial markets have experienced unprecedented transformations, signs of which have emerged since the late 1970s. In recent years substantial consolidation occurred. In response to changes in macroeconomic variables, such as GDP, industrial production, inflation and the political business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027466
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Reconceptualising Global Finance and Its Regulation
Nabilou, Hossein - 2017
From the dawn of civilization, the ever-growing sophistication of human society, division of labour, specialization, and comparative advantage rendered trade an indispensable part of any human enterprise. The need for trade begets the need for finance, and as trade becomes globally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967567
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The Structure, Scope, and Independence of Bank Supervision : An International Comparison
Nolle, Daniel E. - 2012
Many countries around the world have experienced banking crises in the past two decades, and all countries are … witnessing substantial changes in the structure and nature of banking. These developments have led national and multilateral … policymakers to focus increased attention on the crucial role of banking supervision. This focus is reinforced by the fact that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112112
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The efficiency of the London Gold Fixing : from Gold Standard to hoarded commodity (1919-68)
O'Connor, Fergal A.; Lucey, Brian M. - 2023
This paper presents and explains the newly rediscovered and transcribed daily market gold price from 1919-1968 for the world's main gold market during the period, the London Gold Fixing Auction. The paper highlights several novel features previously not discussed in the literature, such as gold...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014429125