The historical literature has traditionally paid much attention to the role of universal banking in the industrialization of Germany and has presumed, in line with Gerschenkron (1962), that the system gained preeminence in the late nineteenth century due to the general 'backwardness' of the...

Five methods of estimating the term structure from on-the-run Treasuries are compared with respect to error in spot rate estimation, forward rate estimation, and coupon bond pricing. The methods can all be considered variants of the bootstrapping technique. The two discrete-time bootstrapping...

A number of financial variables have been shown to be effective in explaining the time-series of aggregate equity returns in both the UK and the US. These include, inter alia, the equity dividend yield, the spread between the yields on long and short government bonds, and the lagged equity...

Korean Abstract: 연구는 2002년 이후 한국의 은행 자료를 이용하여 은행 자기자본비율과 자기자본비용 관계를 추정하였다. 먼저 자본자산가격결정모형(CAPM) 모형을 이용하여 한국의 은행 자기자본비용을 추정하였다. 다음 은행...

Why do investors react to old information? We provide survey evidence to experimentally document that active finance professionals are more susceptible to old information when it comes as a recombination of content from multiple sources. To evaluate the market implications of this mechanism, we...

This article highlights the current misunderstanding between economists and econophysicists by adopting the financial economists' viewpoint in order to explain why the works developed by econophysicists are not recognized in finance. Because both communities do not share the same scientific...

If land is titled and transferable, it can be used as collateral against which money can be borrowed. The resulting increase in access to credit is usually expected to foster economic growth. We study a policy in colonial India that made land less available as collateral for debt. Using a panel...

Korean Abstract: 본 연구는 2002년 이후 한국의 은행 자료를 이용하여 은행 자기자본비율과 자기자본비용 관계를 추정하였다. 먼저 자본자산가격결정모형(CAPM) 모형을 이용하여 한국의 은행 자기자본비용을 추정하였다. 다음...

American International Group, Inc. (AIG), a large insurance company, received a massive bailout during the financial crisis in response to difficulties centered on the company's multifaceted exposure to residential mortgage-backed securities. The company is back on its feet, albeit in more...

Part IV examines FATCA withholding liability for withholdable payments under Code Secs. 1471 and 1472, and provides a nine-point analysis—each of which must be answered affirmatively for the new 30-percent withholding tax to apply