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IT-enabled credit risk modernization: a revolution under the cloak of normality
Scott, Susan V. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
retail bank. An analysis is constructed against the backcloth of contemporary social theory with the aim of stimulating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745039
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Has the growth of real GDP in the UK been overstated because of mis-measurement of banking output?
Oulton, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
If official figures overstated the growth of banking output in the UK in the recent boom, does this mean that GDP growth was overstated too? The answer is no. It is truer to say that if banking output was overstated then the output of some other industry or industries must have been understated,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745950
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The development of electronic trading in the futures industry: strategic risk positioning in a globalising age
Scott, Susan V.; Barrett, Michael I. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
Contemporary political, economic and social conditions heighten the demand placed upon organizations to create strategy designed to manage uncertainty. It is suggested that a broader analytical repertoire may support development of insight into the nature and speed of change during turbulent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746470
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Banking on trust: managing reputation risk in financial service organizations
Scott, Susan V.; Walsham, Geoff - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
In this paper we introduce concepts that build a theoretical notion of reputation risk and establish the need to extend our approach to managing such risk.. The existing literature on reputation risk has tended to be reactive and focus on immediate business threats rather than trying to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746546
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A historical analysis of core financial services infrastructure: Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT)
Scott, Susan V.; Zachariadis, M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
SWIFT’s design. Over time, what began as a closed “society” founded to reduce errors and increase efficiency in inter-bank … network phenomenon. SWIFT achieved such success that it has been accused of being an installed base stifling innovation. In … recent years, SWIFT has had to institute new categories of membership in an effort to counter concerns about its bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071267
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Bankers' pay and extreme wage inequality in the UK
Bell, Brian; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
It is well known that the distribution of income in the United Kingdom has widened considerably in the last three decades. This rise has been a result of a widening at both the top and bottom of the wage distribution. More recently, most of the action appears to have occurred at the top of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071347
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A Rational Irrational Man?
Harin, Alexander - HAL - 2006
A man is a key subject of economics. “A man is irrational” - this opinion can be made from Allais paradox, risk aversion and other well-known fundamental problems. For a long time, this opinion was a barrier to proper solution of these problems and the development of the economics. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794157
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Measuring competition in banking: A critical review of methods
LEON, Florian - HAL - 2014
Many studies have attempted to investigate the determinants and implications of competition in the banking industry. The literature on the measurement of competition can be divided between the structural and non-structural approaches. The structural approach infers the degree of competition from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899551
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Female Access to Credit in France: How Microfinance Institutions Import Disparate Treatment from Banks
Cozarenco, Anastasia; Szafarz, Ariane - HAL - 2013
This paper compares the loans granted to male and female entrepreneurs by a French microfinance institution (MFI). The sample period is split in two: before and after the MFI implemented France's regulatory EUR 10,000 loan ceiling. In the first period, the MFI does not co-finance projects with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933836
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The use of accounting and stock market data to predict bank financial distress: the case of East Asian banks
Distinguin, Isabelle; Tarazi, Amine; Trinidad, Jocelyn - HAL - 2008
This paper investigates whether market information could add to accounting information in the prediction of bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821430