... Neuer Markt The deep crisis ofthe Neuer Markt is attributed to investors’ delusion, to the burst ofthe Internet bubble and to the numerous cases of frauds and defaults, that sank the image of ... Europe s New Stock Markets Table Summary Statistics All Panel A: Firm characteristics Market capitalization (d thousands) Gross proceeds (d thousands) Total assets (d thousands) Sales (d thousands) ... ofthe growth exchange and caused its closing The closing ofthe Neuer Markt andthe rebranding and restructuring ofthe entire Frankfurt stock market indicate the seriousness ofthe crisis of...
... banking institutions This should be based upon a cost-benefit analysis of various choices Should supervision be on the basis of separate industries or products/services? There is a wide variety of financial ... inconsistent, and costly regulation This structure is in dire need of reform, but the issue is which regulatory structure is most appropriate for the United States There is a single supervisor ... holdings and address that risk proactively throughout all ofthe institutions A regulatory regime must be designed to address the broad issues of systemic risks Do differences in the size or composition...
... Banks Increasing Reliance on U. S Securities Markets for Capital Funding and Portfolio Investment (1900–2008) Surge in Amount and Diversity of U. S Asset-Backed Securities Outstanding U. S Asset-Backed ... Asset-Backed Securities Outstanding Shares of Consumer Credit: Banks Compared to Pools of Securitized Consumer Assets Five Big Banks Dominate in Derivatives (Q2 2008) Origin of U. S Banking Institutions and ... Monoline Insurers (Selected Years, US$ Millions) Real Returns on Stocks, Bonds, and Homes Subprime Loans, Known to Be Risky, Accounted for Many Foreclosures (September 2008) The Fallout from the Subprime...
... maintain the dignity of his office, without subjecting himself to the imputation of superciliousness or unnecessary reserve Under these impressions he asks for your candid and undisguised opinion." ... Hamilton 's measures The historian has the advantage of a perspective denied to participants in events, and this fact is apt to turn unduly to the discredit of lost causes.] The passage of assumption ... actual character ofthe government The first business in order of course was the raising of revenue, for the treasury was empty, and payments of interest due on the French and Spanish loans were...
... At the intellectual level, the soul contemplates abstract ideas and is conscious of itself as a soul or self fundamentally distinct from the body This selfconsciousness ofthe soul is its so-called ... applications of Scripture, as well as parables and stories that present Jewish ethics in more humanistic (less legal) ways The Mishnah also includes discussion of some topics, such as the immortality of ... fact the whole body And don’t suppose that this is just true in the case ofthe body; in the case ofthe soul, too, its traits, habits, opinions, desires, pleasures, pains, fears—none of these...
... existence of any such marketplace depends far less on our abstract values than on the structure ofthe communications and culture industries We sometimes treat the information industries as if they ... strikes not at the margins ofthe profits andthe outputs ofthe existing firms but at their foundations and their very lives.” Schumpeter termed this process “creative destruction.” As he put it, ... socialism As with the end of Shakespeare sThe Taming ofthe Shrew , a plain reading ofthe text has caused Schumpeter s fans much discomfort Whether Schumpeter s true purpose was to praise or to bury...
... Harvard Business School assistant professor, to see if Rosenfeld could recommend any of his students The son of a modestly successful Concord, Massachusetts, money manager, Rosenfeld was a computer ... Long-Term had the benefit of superior, virtually fail-safe technology And banks, like some ofthe press, casually assumed that it was so Business Week gushed that the fund s Ph.D .s would give rise to ... Soros s Quantum Fund less than it did the proprietary desks of its banks, such as Goldman Sachs The Street was slowly shifting from research and client services to the lucrative business of trading...
... TheRiseandFallof Abacus Banking in Japan and China TheRiseandFallof Abacus Banking in Japan and China Yuko Arayama and Panos Mourdoukoutas QUORUM BOOKS Westport, Connecticut • London ... Assets: Abacus Banking I TheRiseandFallof Abacus Banking andthe Banking Crisis in Japan 17 TheRiseof Abacus Banking in Japan 19 TheFallof Abacus Banking in Japan 53 The Banking Crisis 73 ... claims that, though necessary, an American-style rescue package that cleans the balance sheets of Japanese and Chinese banks is not sufficient to solve the banking woes ofthe two countries To be sufficient,...
... and to assess the risks and rewards of their investments Arguing these contentions in more detail, the remainder of this book contains two parts Part I discusses theriseandfallof abacus banking ... abacus banking Chapter presents a discussion ofthe lowgrowth, post-bubble era and investigates the decline andfallof abacus banking Chapter discusses of how theriseandfallof abacus banking ... Non-performing Assets: Abacus Banking 15 era (1978–1993) Chapter discusses the decline andfallof abacus banking in the slow-growth era (1995–present) Chapter offers a discussion about how theriseand fall...
... for their own success upon the success ofthe firms of their group, the banks typically found that it made sense both to support and supervise them, and adopted the practice of sending representatives ... promote the industries that served such visions The Ministry of Postal Savings in turn allocated the appropriate postal funds to finance the industries pursued For its part, the mighty MOF issued its ... turns the MOF into the de facto guarantor ofthe soundness ofthe banking industry The Riseof Abacus Banking in Japan 37 Among the industrialized countries, disclosure of a bank s books is one...
... [Japan] must also recognize that the present structure of US/Japan economic relations puts US firms at a disadvantage and imposes burdens on the US economy and on the US citizens The United States cannot ... expertise The Okurasho wants its staff to understand economics but not to be possessed by it It wants of cials who see economics but not to be possessed by it It wants of cials who see economics as ... for new sources of income in new, less predictable businesses, a prospect that set the stage for the decline andfallof abacus banking Arguing this proposition, this chapter discusses how international...
... relocated their manufacturing outside of Japan.15 A conformation of this trend is the reduction in Japan s surplus with the United States and an increase in China sand Southeast Asia s surpluses with ... Statistical Association (various years) 82 TheRiseandFallof Abacus Banking in Japan and China mortgagees.6 In this sense, jusen was supposed to serve the government s efforts to elevate the standard ... railroads, public land, and gold, which led to the panic of 1857; the speculation in trust companies andthe crush of 1907; the speculation in stocks, real estate investment trusts, andthe Eurodollar...
... crisis was the result ofthe failure ofthe Japanese system as a whole rather than the failure of individual banks, as was the case with the savings and loans crisis in the United States in the ... vehicles for turning hyperliquidity into non-performing assets But is this not similar to the U. S savings and loans crisis ofthe 198 0s? In a sense, it is In both countries, the banking crisis can ... Zeitek further engaged corporations into an acquisition spree in the West, especially in the United States Many ofthe most precious U. S assets—record labels and movie studios, theme parks, technology...
... branches, field branches, of ces, suboffices, and supplementary saving units throughout the country and placed them under the supervision ofthe Financial Department ofthe Military Control Commissions ... diffusion of new technology China s second missed opportunity dates back to the middle ofthe nineteenth century, when the country unsuccessfully defended herself against the Europeans, the Russians, ... depend on the quantity andthe quality of its resources alone, but on the social regime, the environment that shapes the ownership relations andthe allocation of these resources Countries with...
... TheRiseof Abacus Banking in China 119 the Chinese government by and large remains the majority owner of SOEs andthe successors of CEs, township and village enterprises (TVEs) This means ... the first four out ofthe top ten positions of Asia s largest banks.31 To sum up, the Chinese banking industry has always been a tightly regulated industry, especially during the early communist ... has a large shortage of professional managers After all, this is the country that for centuries looked down on economics and 124 TheRiseandFallof Abacus Banking in Japan and China business...
... excess liquidity, the lack of a sound fiscal system, the establishment of ITICs, an asset bubble, andthe rapid deterioration ofthe situation of SOEs On February 17, 1999, Beijing shut down one of ... planning units, namely SOEs and TVEs, are first assigned economic inputs and then they secure financing and search for market opportunities In this sense, SOE and TVE managers who pursue investment ... percent of GDP.7 In this sense, China s banking crisis is not reflected in the amount of non-performing assets accumulated in the books of Chinese banks alone; they are in the books of SOEs and their...
... assets In this sense, the Japanese banking crisis reflects the failure ofthe entire Japanese system rather than the failure of individual banks, as was the case with the savings and loans crisis ... He is the author of several articles presented in academic and business conferences and published in professional journals, and is co-author, with Panos Mourdoukoutas, of China Against Herself: ... markets without substantial concessions to opening their own markets to the products and businesses of other countries Chinese bureaucrats and corporate managers believed that they could succeed in...
... work in the securities trading business Some suspected it was a front for her husband Sylvia Madoff closed her business after the SEC ran a sweep of "bucket shops," as these small operations were ... didn't stand out as special, but inside the space reeked of money Just past the outside awning and entrance is the lobby, replete with leather chairs and live orchids, understated and sumptuous The ... warning So Sylvia Madoff wound down her career in the investment business, just as her son Bernie was building his It appears that as early as the 196 0s Bernie Madoff was building two businesses The...
... Statistics Bureau of Economic Analysis Bureau of Economic Analysis Administrative Office ofthe United States Courts; Bureau of Labor Statistics Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages Rice and Strahan ... four southeastern states (Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee), and two Great Plains states (Montana and North Dakota) Figure shows the distribution ofthe depositsbased failure ... 192 0s, when falling commodity prices reduced agricultural incomes and caused the failure of thousands of banks located in farm states and other rural areas States where farm land values and cultivated...
... present the results for the monthly and daily estimates for the U. S bank holding companies, andthe last two columns present the results for the Japanese firms For the U. S firms, the exposure measures ... median estimates andthe standard deviation ofthe estimates, some aspects of its range, andthe number of firms whose exposure is found to be statistically significant The first two columns present ... ofthe bank 15 The estimates of exchange rate exposure provided in Section implicitly treat all sources of exposure the same In this section, we discuss some ofthe explicit sources of exposure...