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International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurship
Alfaro, Laura; Charlton, Andrew - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006
We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. Using a unique data set of approximately 24 million firms in nearly 100 countries in 1999 and 2004, we find suggestive evidence that international financial integration has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005796107
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International financial integration and entrepreneurship
Alfaro, Laura; Charlton, Andrew - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. Using a unique data set of approximately 24 million firms in nearly 100 countries in 1999 and 2004, we find suggestive evidence that international financial integration has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746519
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The MF Global Debacle : What Were the Red Flags?
Till, Hilary - 2017
In the Fall of 2011, futures market participants were caught off-guard when MF Global filed for bankruptcy. Essentially, this episode educated industry participants that customer protections in the U.S. commodity futures markets had been more ambiguous than expected. That said, there are a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951308
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Famous Debacles in the Commodity Markets : Case Studies on Amaranth and MF Global
Till, Hilary - 2017
This article covers the trading blowups at the hedge fund, Amaranth, and at the Futures Commission Merchant, MF Global. Although the lessons from the Amaranth blowup can best be understood in terms of market-risk principles, the lessons from the MF Global bankruptcy are best understood in terms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953092
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2017 Global Blockchain Benchmarking Study
Hileman, Garrick - 2019
The first global blockchain benchmarking study presents a systematic and comprehensive picture of a rapidly evolving industry, examining how blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) are being used in the public sector and enterprise. The study analysed non-publicly available data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901027
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The Collapse of MF Global : What Happened and Lessons Learned
Till, Hilary - 2015
Futures market participants were caught off-guard when MF Global, a commodity futures broker, filed for bankruptcy on October 31st, 2011. By now, bankruptcies of financial firms are not unusual, so why did this one cause such consternation? Essentially, this episode educated industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023131
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Globalized Finance and National Regulation : The Influence of Internationalization on Supervisory Consolidation
Prabhakar, Rahul - 2010
hegemonic market power. This paper demonstrates how the internationalization of finance, through the spread of global financial … level of financial internationalization in a country, the greater the level of supervisory consolidation. This paper revises … the undergraduate thesis, "And Then There Was One: Conglomeration, Internationalization, and the Formation of Consolidated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146531
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The European economic crisis from 2007 onwards in the context of a global crisis of over-production of capital - a Marxian monetary theory of value interpretation
Gander, Sascha - 2019
This paper attempts to clarify how the European economic crisis from 2007 onwards can be understood from the perspective of a Marxian monetary theory of value that emphasizes in-trinsic, structural flaws regarding capitalist reproduction. Chapter two provides an empirical description of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099421
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Explaining the migration of stocks from exchanges in emerging economies to international centres
Claessens, Stijn; Kingebiel, Daniela; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2002
The purpose of the study is two-fold. First, it examines whether Internet usage converges across the geographical space comprising the European Union and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Second, it aims to expand the currently rather limited empirical evidence on the determinants of Internet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279025
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Do liquidity limits amplify money market fund redemptions during the COVID crisis?
Dunne, Peter G.; Giuliana, Raffaele - 2021
Regulation of Money Market Funds (MMFs) in the EU requires some categories of MMFs to consider applying liquidity management tools if they breach a minimum 'weekly' liquidity requirement. Anticipation of the application of such tools is a plausible amplifier of run risks. Using a larger European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013396517