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Will the Adoption of Basel II Encourage Increased Bank Merger Activity? Evidence from the United States

Hannan, Timothy H.; Pilloff, Steven J. - 2005

minimum capital requirements, proposed as part of the Basel II capital accord, would cause adopting banking organizations to … regulatory capital and subsequent merger activity, including organization and time fixed effects, while the second test employs a … " difference in difference" analysis of the change in merger activity that occurred the last time U.S. regulatory capital standards …

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Real convergence, financial markets, and the current account – Emerging Europe versus emerging Asia

Herrmann, Sabine; Winkler, Adalbert - 2008

Global financial integration has been associated with divergent patterns of real convergence and the current account in emerging markets. While countries in emerging Asia have been running sizeable current account surpluses, countries in emerging Europe have been facing large current account...

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Euro area fiscal policies and the crisis

van Riet, Ad (contributor) - 2010

In mid-September 2008, a global financial crisis erupted which was followed by the most serious worldwide economic recession for decades. As in many other regions of the world, governments in the euro area stepped in with a wide range of emergency measures to stabilise the financial sector and...

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International comparison of stock market valuation: Evidence from a new index

Jochem, Axel; Reitz, Stefan - 2013

assets on international capital markets. …

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Explaining the Danish-German sovereign yield spread

Grønlund, Asger Munch; Hensch, Jonas Ladegaard; … - 2022

This economic memo investigates the drivers of the Danish-German 10-year yield spread, which has widened 25 basis points since January 2020. The widening is found to be driven mainly by larger collateral scarcity of German sovereign bonds due to the ECB's significant bond purchases and a...

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Stock market returns and GDP growth

Fichtner, Ferdinand; Joebges, Heike - 2024

The existing econometric evidence on the relationship between stock indices and real economic activity is inconclusive despite theoretical arguments suggesting a long-term relationship. Previous studies indicate that the link between stock prices and growth became weaker in the 1980s. In this...

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Nowcasting Finnish GDP growth using financial variables: a MIDAS approach

Laine, Olli-Matti; Lindblad, Annika - 2020

We analyse the performance of financial market variables in nowcasting Finnish quarterly GDP growth. Especially, we assess if prediction accuracy is affected by the sampling frequency of the financial variables. Therefore, we apply MIDAS models that allow us to forecast quarterly GDP growth...

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A stronger CEE for a stronger Europe

Wieser, Thomas; Grieveson, Richard; Holzner, Mario - 2024

Authority to enable freer movement of capital; high-quality implementation of anti-money-laundering processes and institutions … support of a regional capital market; promotion of deeper national capital markets by boosting the second and third pillars of … pension systems, while retaining their pay-as-you-go systems; regional cooperation among venture capital funds, supported by …

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