... inputs the frontier would have required to produce the same amount of output as the other region The narrowing ofthe “gap” and therefore the concept of convergence or “catching up” towards the ... typically focused on innovation- and skill-intensive production and often only parts ofthe company (e.g the headquarters) remain in the city The size ofthe city allows for a high degree of diversification ... inclusion are felt Conception of national policies therefore needs to consider the impact on different types of places, andthe firms and people located there While the majority of OECD residents live...
... teach these lectures in many other places: the Oslo BI School of Management (March 2002), the Bank of Finland (April 2002), the Bank of England (May 2002), Wuhan University (November 2002 and December ... Economic Review, the Journal ofthe European Economic Association, the Journal of Financial Intermediation, andthe Economic Review ofthe Federal Reserve of New York—for giving me the right to use ... Preface and Acknowledgments In November 2000, I was invited by the University of Leuven to give the Gaston Eyskens Lectures The main topic of my research at the time provided the title: “Why are there...
... support to allofthe banks was provided, but the stockholders ofthe banks were not expropriated and some managers remained in charge As a result the cost was huge, ofthe order of 8% of GDP For ... price aggregates the decentralized information of investors aboutthequalityofthe bank’s assets 12 Therefore, we assume that the resale value ofthe bank’s assets depends on R However, banks ... not actually closed, but they lost the case Bank managers and directors were almost systematically replaced and as a result the cost ofthe crisis was much smaller, less than 3% of GDP 1.6 The Future...
... ofthe liquidity ratio m andthe solvency (E/I) ofthe bank, ofthe critical withdrawal probability γ, andof ¯ the expected return on the bank’s assets R (ii) R ∗ is an increasing function of ... well as the profit rates ofthe bankers in different states ofthe world, as a function of E (the equity ofthe bank) andthe parameters characterizing investment returns and bankers’ actions The object ... the costs of efforts e0 and e1 are small and if δ (the increase in the probability of success) and ∆β (the reduction in the probability of solvency) are large In this case, the optimal allocation...
... two effects: it raises the issue ofthe feasibility ofthe efficient allocation in the presence of an interbank market; and it limits the role ofthe CB to situations in which the interbank market ... for the collateral, relieving the FED ofthe risk of falling collateral value.” Of course, the risk is shifted onto the DIF 20 In the Eurosystem all credit operations by the European System of ... discussion ofthe issue and a model ofthe IMF’s preferred creditor status to mitigate financial crises 24 Memorandum of Understanding between HM Treasury, the Bank of England, andthe FSA (Available...
... ρ2 + ρ21 The harder the liquidity shock hitting bank 1, the lower the value ofthe interbank loan andthe higher the overall liquidity shock of bank While the qualitative features ofthe implementation ... monitor One ofthe key issues addressed in this paper is whether the rescue ofthe lending bank operates through a bailout ofthe borrowing bank, a move that we take to be the hallmark ofthe TBTF ... between the banks andthe DIF on the one hand, and pure public supervision on the other hand Proposition 4.3 A purely private organization ofthe banking sector leads to too many closures in the...
... crisis, the Mexican, Asian, and Russian crises, andthe crisis ofthe Long Term Capital Management hedge fund have all shown the importance ofthe intervention ofthe central banks andofthe international ... monitor each other 7.3 Resiliency and Market Discipline in the Interbank System In the next two sections we tackle the issue ofthe impact ofthe insolvency of one bank on the rest ofthe system ... structured and what should be the role ofthe lender of last resort (LLR) A good illustration ofthe wedge between theory and reality is provided by the deposits shift that followed the distress of Bank...
... and Gale However, the focus ofthe two papers is different Allen and Gale are concerned with the stability ofthe system with respect to liquidity shocks arising from the random number of consumers ... uncertainty and we focus on the implications ofthe insolvency of one bank in terms of market discipline andthe stability ofthe system In particular in proposition 7.4 we show how the structure of interbank ... another location have the natural interpretation of demand of goods of other countries, i.e., import demand Goods ofthe other country can be purchased through currency (like in autarky in the...
... critical assessment ofthe academic literature on the three pillars, and argue that none ofthe existing models allows for a satisfactory integration of these pillars We therefore develop in ... Literature Most ofthe academic literature on Basel I concentrates on the credit crunch ofthe early 1990s and on the distortions of banks’ asset allocation generated by the wedge between the market ... similar to the conflict of interest between bondholders and shareholders of undercapitalized firms Figure 9.2 represents the typical pattern ofthe value ofthe bank’s equity E, as a function ofthe value...
... level of risk chosen by the bank Then they examine the complementarity between two policy instruments of bank regulators: the level of capital requirements andthe intensity of supervision In the ... threat of regulatory closure Milne and Whalley study the interaction between two regulatory instruments: the intensity of costly auditing andthe level of capital requirements They also allow for the ... on two strands ofthe literature: • Corporate finance models like those of Leland and Toft (1996) and Ericsson (2000) that analyze the impact of debt maturity on asset substitution and firm value...
... in the design ofthe study andthe interpretation ofthe results All authors participated in revising the manuscript, and read and approved the final manuscript 19 20 Competing interests The ... RB conceived ofthe study, drafted parts ofthe original draft and supervised all aspects JC conducted the statistical analysis and drafted sections ofthe manuscript RB, AM, RO’C, and KMC participated ... in all countries) Overall, there were low correlations, all in the expected direction, between each ofthe beliefs suggesting some inconsistency in respondents’ knowledge aboutthe safety of...
... support to allofthe banks was provided, but the stockholders ofthe banks were not expropriated and some managers remained in charge As a result the cost was huge, ofthe order of 8% of GDP For ... the universality ofthe problem These crises have renewed interest of economic research about two questions: the causes of fragility of banks andthe possible ways to remedy this fragility, and ... average the fiscal cost of each of these recent banking crises was ofthe order of 12% ofthe country’s GDP but exceeded 40% in some ofthe most recent episodes in Argentina, Indonesia, Korea, and...
... price ofthe query should reflect thequalityofthe query result Thequalityofthe query result is affected by (1) the amount ofthe data items needed to answer the query and (2) thequalityofthe ... should reflect thequalityofthe query result Thequalityofthe query result is affected by (1) the amount ofthe data items needed to answer the query and (2) thequalityofthe data items ... scheme based on the concept of “versioning”, we have to study the relationship between qualityand price of data The concept of versioning (“degrade thequalityofthe product offered to the consumers...
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... our model ofthe role of point of view in problem solving SUMMARY We have reported here a three pronged approach to the study of problem solving action and report: I) the collected of data on ... problem solving and talk about problem solving, 2) development of a process model of these behaviors, and 3) use of coding techniques to extract traces of "critical phenomena" from the transcripts ... evaluating the model So far, we have focussed our efforts on two types of problem solving phenomena: the changes in the problem solver's organization ofthe problem ("point of view"), and systematic...
... since there is only one necessary truth (the set ofall possible worlds) on the present conception of propositions, if you believe one of them you thereby believe them all. 3 The notion of a singular ... conceptions of propositions With respect to the problem at the heart of this book, the differences among these conceptions not really matter, and so I shall of cially be uncommitted aboutthe debate However, ... attributing to allof them? The question incorporates a kind of presupposition It assumes that what we say ofthe people is true only if there is something that allof them believe The view to be...
... ofthe empirical evidence for the hierarchical view of mind that is one ofthe primary themes ofthe book Second, the implications ofthe failure of cognitivism about emotion for the theory of ... call alland only the emotions that are pancultural and that fall under the affect program theory the basic emotions But there remains disagreement about what these emotions are Ekman and others ... other except in as much as they are all core concernsofthe philosophy of mind I chose these because they are topics in the philosophy of mind about which, I believe, our understanding of the...
... to conception and design ofthe study, analysis and interpretation of data, and drafting ofthe article Each author revised critically the manuscript and provided final approval ofthe version ... Health andQualityof Life Outcomes 2008, 6:32 tioning [7], and on stress levels [8] In addition, the presence and severity of NVP have been shown to have an impact on thequalityof life (QOL) of ... (none ofthe time) to (all ofthe time) The total NVPQOL score can be obtained by summing the 30 items (20th item reversed) and ranges between 30 and 210 Lower scores correspond to better QOL The...