The relative liquidity of financial assets is significantly influenced by the Central Bank’s willingness to buy such assets, or to accept them as collateral, in the course of providing additional cash to banks.  Those assets which the Central Bank will deal in for such purposes become more...

 

In this paper I try to address the question of whether, and why, it matters whether banking supervision is undertaken in-house in the Central Bank or in a separate specialised supervisory institution. After all, the bank supervisors and those in the Central Bank concerned with systemic stability...

Increasing integration within the European Union (EU) gives rise to cross-border spill-over effects or externalities. The present national based system of financial supervision does not incorporate theseexternalities. Assessing the degree of integration, we find that the EU has not yet a fully...

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There is now a real chance that the Euro member states will not abide by the strict rules of the Stability Pact. Economic and political pressures are currently moving in that direction. What then imposes budgetary discipline on governments? This paper explores how government bond markets and...

Based on a speech delivered by Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa at the London School of Economics, 21 January,2002.

Callum McCarthy joined the FSA in September 2003 from the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets where he was Chairman and Chief Executive. He had previously held senior positions in Barclays Bank, BZW and Kleinwort Benson, as well Department for Trade and Industry. He is an economist and...

This paper examines all movements of stock from NASDAQ to the NYSE or Amex from 1983 through 1997 (1044 observations), as did Barclay (1997) for 472 stocks through 1992. He found a greater average decrease in spreads for NASDAQ stocks quoted on even eighths compared to stocks quoted on mixed...

This paper analyses the factors influencing whether a European Securities and Exchange Commission (ESEC) will be created and confirms the primary role that politics will play in its establishment. In the face of growing support for an ESEC, the paper recommends a strategy the UK should adopt...