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The banking systems of Germany, the UK and Spain form a spatial perspective : the UK case

Flögel, Franz; Gärtner, Stefan - 2018

As expected, this comparison of the German and the UK banking systems shows substantial differences between the countries. In the UK, savings banks disappeared long ago and other regional banks have never become important in lending to business. Instead, the five large commercial banks dominate...

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Pension funds and financial stability : the case of the UK gilt crisis

Gudjonsson, Jon; Hougaard Jensen, Svend Erik - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 58 (2023) 3, pp. 155-159

While macroprudential policy has mostly focused on the role of banks, we argue that pension funds are also important for financial stability. Drawing on previous research on pension funds, we explain how their actions can have a vital impact on other financial institutions as well as on...

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The global city : New York, London, Tokyo

Sassen, Saskia - 1991

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Explaining foreign holdings of Asia's debt securities : the Feldstein-Horioka paradox revisited

Horioka, Charles; Terada Hagiwara, Akiko; Nomoto, Takaaki - 2015

the Eurozone economies, the US, and developing Asia showing relatively weak home bias and advanced Asia, especially Japan … capital has been flowing from the US and the Eurozone economies to both advanced Asia (especially Japan) and developing Asia … and that foreign holdings of debt securities have been increasing in advanced as well as developing Asia but for different …

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Volatility Transmission and Correlation Analysis between the US and Asia : The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis

Valls, Natalia - 2011

This paper examines volatility transmission and conditional correlations behaviour between the US and the Asian stock markets considering the effect of the Global Financial crisis. One Asian mature market and ten emerging markets are included in the sample. To carry out the analysis, we use a...

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Explaining Foreign Holdings of Asia's Debt Securities : The Feldstein-Horioka Paradox Revisited

Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2015

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Regional and Inter-Regional Financial Integration : ASEM Equity Markets

Jaccob, Dina - 2014

The first Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit in 1996 has provided the principal multilateral platform for interregional … in EU and Asia, and to investigate whether such integration has changed after the Asian financial crisis in 1997-99 and … of financial integration, and presents an empirical study on regional integration by testing ASEM EU and ASEM Asia …

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Financial sector-output dynamics in the euro area : non-linearities reconsidered

Schleer, Frauke; Semmler, Willi - 2014 - This version: January 2014

We analyze the feedback mechanisms between economic downturns and financial stress for several euro area countries. Our study employs newly constructed financial condition indices that incorporate banking variables extensively. We apply a non-linear Vector Smooth Transition Autoregressive...

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Shadow bank monitoring

Adrian, Tobias; Ashcraft, Adam B.; Cetorelli, Nicola - 2013

We provide a framework for monitoring the shadow banking system. The shadow banking system consists of a web of specialized financial institutions that conduct credit, maturity, and liquidity transformation without direct, explicit access to public backstops. The lack of such access to sources...

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Financial sector-output dynamics in the euro area : non-linearities reconsidered

Schleer, Frauke; Semmler, Willi - 2013

We analyze the feedback mechanisms between economic downturns and financial stress for euro area countries. Our study employs newly constructed financial condition indices that incorporate extensively banking variables. We apply a nonlinear Vector Smooth Transition Autoregressive (VSTAR) model...

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