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Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit
Calomiris, Charles W.; Haber, Stephen H. - Princeton University Press
Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries--but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic … banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone … but have provided miniscule amounts of credit to business enterprises and households. Analyzing the political and banking …
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Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit
Calomiris, Charles W.; Haber, Stephen H. - Princeton University Press
Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries--but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic … banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone … but have provided miniscule amounts of credit to business enterprises and households. Analyzing the political and banking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011082767
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Pension buyouts: what can the USA learn from the UK experience?
Monk, Ashby H.B. - In: International Journal of Financial Services Management 4 (2010) 2, pp. 127-150
This paper analyses the UK market for Defined Benefit (DB) pension buyouts and considers its implications for the USA. A DB pension fund buyout refers to a transaction in which a pension plan sponsor pays another company a fee to take over the assets and liabilities of the pension plan. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008755721
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The Stories of Serenade: Nonprofit History and George Balanchine’s First Ballet in America
Steichen, James - Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Woodrow … - 2010
history and scholarship shows how and why the “first in America” story of Serenade began to be told. I argue that the “first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150259
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The evolution of fair value accounting in the USA: a critical examination of its progress since 1900
Nouri, Hossein; Pannone, Daniel - In: International Journal of Critical Accounting 2 (2010) 2, pp. 191-209
Despite the relevance of fair value accounting to the financial statements, it was not adopted by standard setting bodies until recently. This paper investigates the evolution of fair value accounting in the USA and shows that several factors, such as accounting standard setting bodies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008755466
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Healing ourselves, healing our economy: paid work, unpaid work, and the next stage of feminist economic transformation
Matthaei, Julie - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 33 (2001) 4, pp. 461-494
This article presents a broad overview of U.S. economic history which identifies a next stage of feminist economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010797096
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Analytic Narratives
Bates, Robert H.; Greif, Avner; Levi, Margaret; … - Princeton University Press
strategic decision making in history. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010862627
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Understanding institutional change: the development of institutions for the regulation of natural gas transportation systems in the US and the EU
Correljé, Aad; Groenleer, Martijn; Veldman, Jasper - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2013
This paper compares the development of the institutions for regulation of the natural gas transportation systems in the United States and the European Union. Given the fact that these systems are technically similar, it addresses the question why regulatory institutions in the US and the EU have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010714223
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This Time is Different, Again? The United States Five Years after the Onset of Subprime
Reinhart, Carmen; Kenneth, Rogoff - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Depression. Given that all of the earlier crises predate the creation of deposit insurance in 1933, and that three of the four …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110861
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The Stories of Serenade: Nonprofit History and George Balanchine’s First Ballet in America
Steichen, James - Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Woodrow … - 2010
history and scholarship shows how and why the “first in America” story of Serenade began to be told. I argue that the “first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627860