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The financial crisis of 2007-09 highlighted the changing role of financial institutions and the growing importance of the "shadow banking system," which grew out of the securitization of assets and the integration of banking with capital market developments. This trend was most pronounced in the...
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This paper concentrates on three financial variables in promoting capital accumulation in the two groups of Asian economies. The empirical result shows that the ASEAN economies' financial performance is far less satisfactory than the four Asian NIEs. Considering the experience of the last two...
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The paper reviews the developments in the capital markets and corporate governance in India since the early 1990s when the government of India adopted the economic liberalization programme. The legislative changes significantly altered the theme of Indian Companies Act 1956, which is based on...
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This paper explores the leverage effect (the negative association between the stock return today and the stock return's volatility tomorrow), by utilizing the exponential ARCH type specification for panel data with a large number of stock issues and a small number of daily time series...
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The Bank of Japan has used unconventional monetary policies to fight deflation and stabilize the financial system since … the late 1990s. While the Bank of Japan's reflation efforts have evolved over time, inflation and inflation expectations … have remained stubbornly low. This paper examines the evolution of monetary policy in Japan over the past twenty years, in …
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This paper reviews the reasons why Japan has failed to resolve the economic and financial distress that started in 1990 … recovery not yet occurred, and is Japan in a second lost decade in terms of economic and financial development? I discuss how … liberalization in Japan was more a response to specific interest groups than an effort at fundamental redesign; perceived absence of …
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We formalize the idea that the financial sector can be a source of non-fundamental risk. Households' desire to hedge against price volatility can generate price volatility in equilibrium, even absent fundamental risk. Fearing that asset prices may fall, risk-averse households demand safe assets...
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