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Revisiting U. S. Public and Private Debt in April 2011

Blain, Bob - 2011

U.S. public and private debt is traced to the decision of the First Congress in 1790 to borrow the new nation's money supply. This established a debt imperative that requires debt to grow by compounding interest. When debt fails to grow enough, the economy goes into various degrees of recession....

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The Performance of Vietnamese Banking System Under Financial Liberalization : Measurement Using DEA

Ngo, Thanh - 2012

Using time trend data from 1990 to 2010, the research applied the efficiency measurement and Data Envelopment Analysis approach to evaluate the performance changes of Vietnamese banking system under financial liberalization. It showed that generally this performance is on a decreasing trend and...

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Central Banking and Supervision : The Political Cycle

Masciandaro, Donato - 2012

By the early ‘2000 an increasing numbers of countries had adopted a well defined central bank framework, which is characterized by two intertwined features: the authority becomes specialized in achieving the monetary policy goals, and consequently its traditional responsibilities in pursuing...

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Measuring the Performance of the Banking System : Case of Vietnam (1990-2010)

Ngo, Thanh - 2012

Banking is the core of the financial system which has important role in attracting deposits to provide credits to borrowers, services to customers and booting the economic development. This paper applied a modified DEA window analysis to analyze the performance changes through time of the...

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Total Factor Productivity of Thai Banks in 2007-2010 : An Application of DEA and Malmquist Index

Ngo, Thanh - 2012

Total Factor Productivity (TFP) changes of Thai banking system in the period of 2007-2010 using panel data of 27 major banks … in Thailand. This paper shows that the global crisis had a late effect on Thai banks as the TFP only dropped in 2010 …. While the local banks maintained their stable, foreign banks were more fluctuating – some improved their TFPs, some did not …

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The Performance of Vietnamese Banking System Under Financial Liberalization : Measurement Using DEA

Ngo, Thanh - 2012

, for example the case of Vietnamese banks before 2000. It showed that this performance is on a decreasing trend (although a …

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Central Bank's Involvement in Safeguarding Financial Stability in the European Union

Smaga, Paweł - 2013

central bank. Research hypothesis: The central banks of 27 EU countries are characterized by strong differences in their … degree of involvement in safeguarding financial stability, because central banks in the euro zone are more involved in … safeguarding financial stability than non-EMU central banks in the EU. Using a novel methodology developed by the author, a …

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Deposit Insurance and Banking Stability

Chu, Kam Hon - 2013

This article will examine in a more systematic way the effectiveness of deposit insurance coverage in maintaining banking stability. More specifically, I argue that raising deposit insurance coverage in an attempt to eradicate bank runs is not necessarily the optimal policy because bank runs,...

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Preventing Bubbles : Regulation versus Monetary Policy

Malpass, David - 2013

Over the years, there has been a lot to consider in the Federal Reserve's choices of monetary policy and their relationship to bubbles. My conclusion is that mistaken U.S. monetary policy, usually related to the Fed's indifference to the value of the dollar, has repeatedly caused harmful asset...

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A Gold Standard with Free Banking Would Have Restrained the Boom and Bust

White, Lawrence H. - 2013

President George W. Bush famously remarked in July 2008 that during the housing boom “Wall Street got drunk... and now it has a hangover.” It was the Federal Reserve that spiked the punchbowl. The Fed sowed the seeds for the bust of 2007-08 by overexpanding credit, keeping interest rates too...

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