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Corporate off-balance sheet transactions that used special-purpose entities (“SPEs”) facilitated the expansion of structured finance during the years leading up to the Great Recession. Specifically, SPEs conferred bankruptcy remote, liquidity, leverage and interest rate risk benefits on...
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After introducing some fundamental concepts of relevance to Islamic finance, this article describes investment funds used to make investments in the United States, lease (ijara) investment structures used for real estate investments in different jurisdictions (including the early development of...
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to (i) the liquidity regulation of AMs and (ii) the solvency regulation of IIs can improve upon the competitive …
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This paper links reform of the international financial regulatory system with reform of the international monetary system because as this recent global crisis demonstrates so vividly, the root causes can come from both the financial and monetary spheres and they can interact in variety of...
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This study investigates the implications of cross-country differences in banking regulation and supervision for the … subsidiaries in countries with weaker regulation and supervision and that such location decisions are associated with elevated BHC …
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This thesis explores whether independent directors in the USA and Canada are effective in holding management … this effect has not been found in Canada. Compensation committees composed fully of independent directors neither … cost of acquiring corporate information, and have no social connections with the CEO. In Canada, weak evidence of the …
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the European Union (EU) rating market in the regulation imposed on the agencies. Methods/Approach: Selected key figures …-gered stricter regulation of the credit rating agencies. Such regulation has now been in force for a good decade. …
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The United States and the European Union (“EU”) are at the forefront of financial market re‐regulation in the wake of … of a comprehensive, yet fairly disjointed, re-regulation of domestic and international financial markets, including … evident in the primary areas of securitization regulation thus far, the so‐called “skin in the game” regulations and …
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This paper addresses and resolves the issue of microstructure noise when measuring the relative importance of home and U.S. market in the price discovery process of Canadian interlisted stocks. In order to avoid large bounds for information shares, previous studies applying the Cholesky...
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