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Managing supply-demand risk in global production: Creating cost-effective flexible networks

Tomlin, Brian - In: Business Horizons 57 (2014) 4, pp. 509-519

unpredictable fluctuations in demand and supply. These supply-demand imbalances are a major business risk in a vast array of … to this risk. In this article, we discuss better and worse ways to embrace mix flexibility. To begin, senior executives …

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Banks’ capital buffer, risk and performance in the Canadian banking system: Impact of business cycles and regulatory changes

Guidara, Alaa; Lai, Van Son; Soumaré, Issouf; Tchana, … - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 37 (2013) 9, pp. 3373-3387

Using quarterly financial statements and stock market data from 1982 to 2010 for the six largest Canadian chartered banks, this paper documents positive co-movement between Canadian banks’ capital buffer and business cycles. The adoption of Basel Accords and the balance sheet leverage cap...

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Culture, caution, and trust

Breuer, Janice Boucher; McDermott, John - In: Journal of Development Economics 97 (2012) 1, pp. 15-23

Trust is an important determinant of economic development. Understanding its origins is therefore critical. We develop a principal-agent model with heterogeneous players to determine the aggregate amount of trustworthiness and trust in a society. People are distributed according to their...

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By force of habit: a consumption-based explanation of aggregate stock market behavior

Campbell, John Y.; Cochrane, John H. - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 1994

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Pooling intensifies joint failure risk

Shaffer, Sherrill - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 1989

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Bank capitalization and cost: evidence of scale economies in risk management and signaling

Hughes, Joseph P.; Mester, Loretta J. - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 1997

financial capital so that it can logically serve as a cushion against insolvency for potentially risk-averse managers and as a … signal of risk for less informed outsiders. This allows scale economies to be computed without assuming that the bank chooses … authors find evidence that bank managers are risk averse and use the level of financial capital to signal the level of risk …

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