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Since the 2008 financial crisis, in which the Reserve Primary Fund "broke the buck," money market funds (MMFs) have been the subject of ongoing policy debate. Many commentators view MMFs as a key contributor to the crisis because widespread redemption demands during the days following the Lehman...
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In this paper, I suggest that the regulation of the financial system, especially if the aim is to prevent financial crises, should be focused on dealing with the consequences of the crises, not on trying to avoid their causes, although it may seem counterintuitive at first sight. Contrary to the...
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The current financial crisis, which could have plunged the world into a financial abyss similar to the Great Depression, is far from resolved. The financial institutions, which this article asserts caused the crisis, have returned to profitability and have paid billions of dollars in bonuses,...
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Several countries now require banks or money market funds to impose state-contingent costs on shortterm creditors to absorb financial stress. We study these requirements as part of the broader prudential toolkit in a model with five key ingredients: banks may face an aggregate stress state with...
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With the recent stock market frauds in markets around the world such as the Madoff case in the U.S. and the recent Satyam fraud in India, no nation can hold its head high and claim to have good corporate governance. The reality is that the problems of fraud, faulty audits, misleading accounts,...
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institutions. Bailouts became synonymous with the Crisis. Despite promises of “no more bailout”, international efforts to implement … resolution regimes to resolve systemically important financial institutions have failed to solve the bailout issue. This paper … bailout procedure that provides a more organised approach than emergency measures in the face of a severe crisis …
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justify them, and how they are best designed. The major considerations in bailing out and structuring the bailout of a firm … are the macroeconomic impact of failure; the moral hazard effect of the bailout; the discriminatory effect of the bailout …
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