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Employer 401(k) Matches for Student Debt Repayment : Killing Two Birds with One Stone?

Horneff, Vanya; Maurer, Raimond; Mitchell, Olivia S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Almost 50 million Americans are burdened by the need to repay almost $2 trillion in student loan debt, while at the same time having to save for retirement. This article analyzes the potential impact of the 2022 SECURE 2.0 Act reform which permits employers to match contributions for student...

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Rent Guarantee Insurance

Abramson, Boaz; Nieuwerburgh, Stijn van - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

A rent guarantee insurance (RGI) policy makes a limited number of rent payments to the landlord on behalf of an insured tenant unable to pay rent due to a negative income or health expenditure shock. We introduce RGI in a rich quantitative equilibrium model of housing insecurity and show it...

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Do Mergers and Acquisitions Increase Market Share and Financial Performance : Evidence from Two Deals in the US Banking Industry

Tran, Quang Nguyen - 2023

How does the difference in financing influence the M&As’ effects on businesses in the banking industry? Case study method is applied to evaluate two deals, which are BB&T & SunTrust and KeyCorp & First Niagara Financial Group (one all-equity financed and one cash & equity financed). It is...

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Target Retirement Fund : A Variant on Target Date Funds that uses Deferred Life Annuities rather than Bonds to Reduce Risk as Retirement Approaches

Shoven, John B.; Walton, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper evaluates a new variant of the popular target date funds used in employer-based retirement savings plans. We call this new variant a "target retirement plan." Instead of increasing the allocation to bond funds as retirement approaches, a target retirement fund gradually purchases...

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Financial Regulation and the Courts : A Comparative Study of Judicial Approach in India, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom

2017

Financial regulation is a much debated topic for some time. The history of financial instruments started at a time when …. Financial derivatives are a sub species of financial instruments No internationally accepted principles for regulation of … judiciary regarding the regulation of financial instruments in general and financial derivatives in particular. The US, UK and …

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Brexit and the implications for financial services : edited by Patricia Jackson, introduced by Morten Balling, Ernest Gnan and Patricia Jackson; contributions by Franklin Allen, Jo...

Jackson, Patricia; Balling, Morten; Gnan, Ernest; … - Conference on "Brexit and the Implications for …; … - 2017

On 23rd February 2017, SUERF and EY organized a conference on "Brexit and the Implications for Financial Services" at EY's offices, Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London. While the outcome of the Brexit negotiations remains highly uncertain, the conference discussed the burning questions for...

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Turning Points during the U.S. Civil War: Views from the Grayback Market

Weidenmier, Marc D. - 1999

This paper introduces a new high frequency time series of Confederate money prices taken from the newspapers of Richmond and leading cities in the Eastern Confederacy. The new Grayback series is tested for "turning points." The empirical analysis suggests that "turning points" in the Confederate...

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Suppressing asset price inflation: The confederate experience, 1861-1865

Burdekin, Richard C.K.; Weidenmier, Marc D. - 2000

Confederate Treasury notes were convertible into government bonds at par. This provided an imbedded option value for the currency. Confederate interest-rate policy encouraged, and ultimately coerced, holders of Treasury notes to exchange these notes for bonds by imposing deadlines on their...

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Inflation is Always and Everywhere a Monetary Phenomenon: Richmond vs. Houston in 1864

Burdekin, Richard C.K.; Weidenmier, Marc D. - 1999

On April 1, 1864 the Confederate Currency Reform Act reduced the money supply in the Eastern Confederacy by one third. The delayed implementation of the reform west of the Mississippi provides a counterfactual view of what may have happened in the east had the reform not been enacted. This...

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German Debt Traded in London During World War II: A British Perspective on Hitler

Brown Jr., William O.; Burdekin, Richard C.K. - 1999

Two series of German bonds, issued in 1924 and 1930, traded on the London Stock Exchange throughout Hitler's 1933-1945 regime in Germany. We isolate both structural breaks and turning points in these bond series. Major turning points follow Hitler's reintroduction of conscription in 1935, the...

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