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Re-Examining Investor Protection in Europe and the US
Burke, John J. A. - 2009
The year 2009 is a propitious time to evaluate systems of investor protection in financial markets as global bank losses exceed the 1 trillion mark and market losses equally exceed the 1 trillion mark. Prior to the Global Financial Crisis, the European Union enacted sweeping legislation to...
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China and special drawing rights : towards a better international monetary system
Harrison, Matthew; Geng, Xiao - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 12 (2019) 2/60, pp. 1-15
China and the international monetary system need each other. The international monetary system is strained, with crisis … just around the corner, yet reform is not on anyone's agenda. Meanwhile China, deeply invested in the current system, faces … international monetary system and China-IMF-style Special Drawing Rights (SDRs). If in a unilateral initiative China were to make …
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Global Stock Market Interdependencies and long-term Portfolio Diversification
Lucey, Brian M. - 2010
In this paper, we examine the scope for international stock portfolio diversification, from the viewpoint of a United States representative investor, in regard to both the Asian and the European stock markets. Our findings indicate that despite correlation style evidence to the contrary, the...
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Trade, finance or policies : what drives the cross-border spill-over of business cycles?
Montinari, Letizia; Stracca, Livio - 2017
In this paper we investigate how income growth rates in one country are affected by growth rates in partner countries, testing for the importance of pairwise country links as well as characteristics of the receiving country (trade and financial open- ness, exchange rate regime, fiscal...
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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....
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The International Dimensions of Macroprudential Policies
Agenor, Pierre-Richard - 2017
The large economic costs associated with the Global Financial Crisis have generated renewed interest in macroprudential policies and their international coordination. Based on a core-periphery model that emphasizes the role of international financial centers, we study the effects of coordinated...
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The Euro and the International Financial System
Portes, Richard - 2002
This paper analyses the issues raised by EMU for the relationships between the euro area and the international financial system. The depreciation of the euro exchange rate since the beginning of EMU has attracted most attention. The paper argues that none of the conventional explanations is...
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Regional and Global Liquidity Arrangements
Volz, Ulrich - 2012
Regional and bilateral liquidity arrangements have gained increasing prominence over the past decades, not least during the recent global financial crisis. This has important consequences for the role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a crisis lender and raises questions regarding the...
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Prospects for the World Economy
Labini, Paolo Sylos - 2018
The analysis here is founded on certain analogies with the Great Depression of the Thirties and four fundamental points: innovations, changes in the market forms, changes in income distribution and the sustainability of debts. The duration of prosperity depends first of all on the importance and...
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Global Recession to Global Recovery : Macro and Micro Dynamics of Trade, Finance and Investment
Chugan, Pawan K. - 2012
It is well known fact that all good things, as also bad things, come to an end and business cycles pass through good and bad economic times. Economically 2010 was a year of transition from economic recession to recovery. Economies were improving in some countries and industries were showing...
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