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Globalization and technological innovation are two of themost pervasive forces affecting the financial system andits infrastructure. Perhaps nowhere are these trends moreapparent than in the internationalization and automation ofpayments. The evolving landscape is most obvious in retailpayments...
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This article investigates the factors influencing the timingand funding of payments in the CHAPS Sterling system,drawing where appropriate on comparisons with paymentactivity in Fedwire...
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[...]This paper traces the evolution of Fedwire fromtwelve separate payment operations, linked only by aninterdistrict communications arrangement, to a more unifiedand efficient system. Our account highlights both thedifficulties the Federal Reserve encountered as it soughtto standardize and...
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Both the quantity and quality of education and training in Britain are being comparedunfavourably with arrangements in other countries at a time when public expenditure isfacing the most stringent constraints. This paper starts from the presumption thatimprovements in the quality and quantity of...
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LinkedSettlement (CLS) Bank, an institution that settles U.S. dollarpayments early in the morning; changes to the Clearing …
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The 1990s were characterized by substantial financial sectorconsolidation across a large number of industrializedcountries...
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, centralbanks have made extensive use of both new and existing toolsfor supplying central bank money to financial institutions …
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),1 which leads to “fire-sale”–related pecuniaryexternalities; and bank interconnectedness (Allen and Gale2000; Kahn and Santos …
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[...]This article explores the inflation puzzle andinvestigates whether compensation has acted as either atemporary restraint on inflation or as the underlying sourceof a new inflation regime.2 After reviewing the recent behavior of inflation, we specify and estimate a traditionalprice-inflation...
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This paper considers the determination of aggregate price level under dispersed information.A Central Bank sets policy …. Information revealed to theagents and the bank is determined endogenously. It is shown that the aggregate state ofthe economy is … representative agent has perfect informationwhile the Bank has partial information. The Bank’s information set affects fluctuations …
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