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imposes a set of no-arbitrage conditions on trades in the market. For Canada's Large-Value Transfer System, we show that while … distinct phases of both the Bank of Canada's operations as well as phases of the 2007-2008 financial crisis. We find that …
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acquirer-merchant market in Canada. Three main findings are presented. First, smaller merchants pay their acquirer more for … acquiring market in Canada is concentrated and has remained fairly stable since 2010. …
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The 30-year fixed-rate fully amortizing mortgage (or "traditional fixed-rate mortgage") was a substantial innovation … accumulation, many lenders require large down payments. Second, in each monthly mortgage payment, homeowners substantially …, refinancing mortgages is often very costly. We propose a new fixed-rate mortgage, called the Fixed-Payment-COFI mortgage (or …
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We show that U.S. banks price deposits almost uniformly across their branches and that this pricing practice is crucial to explain the deposit rate dynamics following bank mergers. We find a strong and sharp post-merger convergence between the deposit rates of the acquired branches and the...
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This paper examines digital finance usage in the UK, US, India and Nigeria. Using data from the global financial development indicators, the findings reveal that the UK and US have higher digital finance usage than India and Nigeria. The US has higher credit card usage compared to the UK while...
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This paper examines the current situation concerning financial inclusion and financial literacy in Kazakhstan and future prospects. Since 2000, the financial sector has been developing rapidly, driven by petrodollars, which has led to higher financial inclusion. However, the improvement in...
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-standing and widespread Government-Sponsored Enterprises' (GSEs) mortgage default insurance subsidy on banks' equilibrium lending … subsidy is about 25 basis points per dollar, reduces the equilibrium mortgage interest rate by the same amount (3.6% of the …
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amongst mortgage lenders and adds the idea of lender competition into this framework. Despite this addition, the results are … loans, selling most of their mortgages and making less profit off each mortgage while concentrated lenders do the opposite …
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