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Johnson, Paul - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

One of the many miracles of Victorian Britain’s market economy was that it worked most efficiently when it was left to regulate itself – or at least, this is what the great majority of Victorians believed. The prevailing economic orthodoxy throughout the nineteenth century assumed, following...

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Can profitable arbitrage opportunities in the raw cotton market explainBritain’s continued preference for mule spinning?

Leunig, Timothy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

mule spindlescould exploit arbitrage opportunities between different types of cotton in theLiverpool market, reducing the … incentives to adopt rings. We use newly assembledprice data to show that such cost-reducing arbitrage opportunities were small …

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Financial Consolidationand Monetary Policy

English, William - United States / Reserve Board; London School of …

The 1990s were characterized by substantial financial sectorconsolidation across a large number of industrializedcountries...

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Central Bank Tools and Liquidity Shortages

Cecchetti, Stephen G.; Disyatat, Piti - London School of Economics and Political Science

, centralbanks have made extensive use of both new and existing toolsfor supplying central bank money to financial institutions …

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Systemic Risk and Deposit Insurance Premiums

Acharya, Viral V.; Santos, João A. C.; Yorulmazer, Tanju - London School of Economics and Political Science

),1 which leads to “fire-sale”–related pecuniaryexternalities; and bank interconnectedness (Allen and Gale2000; Kahn and Santos …

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An Economic Analysis of Liquidity-Saving Mechanisms

Martin, Antoine; McAndrews, James - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

modelof the behavior of parties, which for simplicity we refer to asbanks. Each bank has particular motivations and …

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Banks’ Payments-Driven Revenues

Radecki, Lawrence J. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

bankingindustry. This goal is served by taking a broad view of thepayments business and analyzing information provided bylarge bank …

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Supervisory Information and the Frequency of Bank Examinations

Hirtle, Beverly J.; López, José A. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

length of time between bank examinations affects thequality of information available to supervisors. For thesepurposes, we … condition of a bank. Our analysisassumes that examination information incorporates twotypes of data: information available from … information that can be obtained onlythrough on-site examinations, such as confidential informationabout a bank’s troubled assets …

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Macro Markets and Financial Security

Athanasoulis, Stefano; Shiller, Robert J.; Van Wincoop, Eric - Yale University <New Haven, Conn.> / Department of Economics; … - 1999

[...]We address several questions in this paper. First,how could macro markets be useful to the average person?Second, how large are the potential benefits from diversificationif these markets were to be introduced andused optimally? Third, can existing financial marketsachieve a similar degree...

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The Impact of Capital Requirements on U.K. Bank Behaviour

Ediz, Tolga; Michael, Ian; Perraudin, William - Bank of England <London>; London School of Economics … - 1998

[...]The most obvious possible, and undesirable,impact on bank behaviour of risk-weighted capital requirementsis that …

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