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Agenda für eine neue Finanzmarktarchitektur
Schäfer, Dorothea - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 51/52, pp. 808-817
, "alle Finanzmärkte, Finanzprodukte und Finanzmarktteilnehmer einer Regulierung oder angemessenen Überwachung" zu unterwerfen …
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Agenda for a New Financial Market Architecture
Schäfer, Dorothea - In: Weekly Report 5 (2009) 7, pp. 41-49
Since the summer of 2007, participants in financial markets have been confronted by a crisis of their own making. In order to prevent the recurrence of a similar crisis in the future, the G-20 nations, at their finance summit in Washington on 15 November 2008, resolved to "ensure that all...
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Islamic Banking in European Union Countries: Challenges and Opportunities
Sadoveanu, Diana - In: CES Working Papers 3 (2011) 4, pp. 592-598
Islamic banking is a relative young industry, with a high rate of growth, which in the last years became a highly discussed subject, due to the challenges and opportunities that it brings. Due to the fact, that in the last decade, the Islamic banking made its presence in the European Union...
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Information asymmetry and adverse wealth effects of crowdfunding
Firoozi, Fathali; Jalilvand, Abolhassan; Lien, … - In: The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance (JEF) 18 (2016) 1, pp. 1-8
The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act of 2012 in the U.S. expanded the capital markets so that entrepreneurs can appeal directly to non-traditional small crowd investors for investment funds. The final rules and forms of the JOBS Act became effective in May 16, 2016. Existing literature...
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Regulation's influence on EU banking efficiency: An evaluation post crisis
Bace, Edward; Ferreira, Ana - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-21
-specific variables. Data on regulation, supervision and monitoring variables, and activity restrictions are from the most recent Bank … Regulation and Supervision Survey database conducted by the World Bank, published 2012. Besides these we incorporate bank size … evidence suggests that the link between capital regulation and banking efficiency is not robust enough to control for other …
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Do private firms benefit from trading in the private securities market?
Loveland, Robert; Fricke, Eric; Goktan, Sinan - In: The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance (JEF) 19 (2017) 2, pp. 1-30
The trading of private securities has recently gained greater visibility and importance with the advent of organized, private security exchanges. This paper uses data on IPO firms that list on the SharesPost private securities exchange platform to examine the potential benefits of a listing....
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Rating-Agenturen: fehlbar und überfordert
Kotz, Hans-Helmut; Schäfer, Dorothea - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 82 (2013) 4, pp. 135-162
Seit der zweiten Hälfte der 1990er gab es drei gravierende Finanzkrisen, jeweils mit einer erheblichen Beteiligung der Rating-Agenturen (RAs). Im Lichte der erzielten Ergebnisse entsprechen RAs nicht ihren Leistungsversprechen. Sie erweisen sich als fehlbar und überfordert. Das ist angesichts...
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Staatliche Banken können schwache Bankenregulierung kompensieren
Shortland, Anja - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 37, pp. 11-15
Staatliche Banken können eine wichtige Rolle bei der Sicherung der Funktionsfähigkeit von Finanzsystemen und für die gesamtwirtschaftliche Entwicklung spielen. Dies gilt offenbar vor allem dann, wenn die Bankenregulierung schwach ist und Banken nicht ausreichend überwacht werden. Die...
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Why Sanctions Against Russia Work
Rácz, András; Spillner, Ole; Wolff, Guntram B. - In: Intereconomics 58 (2023) 1, pp. 52-55
Since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russia has been under an EU sanctions regime. While these sanctions have not prevented Putin from ordering an invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, in the overall picture, they have significantly weakened Russia's ability to wage war. This paper...
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Rethinking Global Climate Change Governance
Barrett, Scott - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-5, pp. 1-12
This paper explains why the approach taken so far to mitigate global climate change has failed. The central reason is an inability to enforce targets and timetables. Current proposals recommending even stricter emission limits will not help unless they are able to address the enforcement...
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