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- Financial Dependence, Banking Sector Competition, and Economic Growth
- The relationships among competition in the financial sector, access of firms to external financing, and associated economic growth are ambiguous in theory. Moreover, measuring competition in the financial sector can be complex. The paper first estimates for 16 countries a measure of banking system competition based on industrial organization theory....
- White papers 2005-01-01
- Who Is Nouriel Roubini?
- Five years after he predicted the U.S. mortgage market would collapse and push the country — and global economy — into a recession, economist Nouriel Roubini finally has the world's attention. His Predictions While other economists thought the real estate...
- Articles 2009-01-05
- Lessons from the Past
- An economist looks at foreign responses to past financial crises and concludes that the U.S. government needs to be bolder in order to succeed. Professor Carmen Reinhart of the University of Maryland discusses what still needs to be done and what makes the current situation so unique…"Those who cannot remember...
- Articles 2009-03-09
- Why Self-Regulation of the Financial System Won't Work
- I want to finish this up this Blog War by broadening the discussion beyond the regulation of hedge funds to how attitudes toward regulation in general have changed in recent years, and how that helped set the stage for the current crisis. In the process, I also want to take...
- Blog posts 2009-04-17
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- Cutting the Financial Sector Down to Size
- Ira Stoll submits: In Friday's New York Times, Paul Krugman endorses a Tobin Tax on financial transactions (FutureOfCapitalism.com readers read about it here first on Wednesday) as "part of the process of shrinking our bloated financial sector." How's that process going? Well, even without a Tobin Tax, employment...
- External links 2009-11-28
- S&P 500 Financial Sector at Key Inflection Point
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: The S&P 500 Financial sector is down just over 12% from its recent intraday high last Friday. And heading into next Monday, the sector is currently sitting at a key inflection point that should help identify which way the sector will trade...
- External links 2009-05-15
- Brazil -- World Bank supports financial sector reforms.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-5 September 2001-WORLD BANK: Brazil -- World Bank supports financial sector reforms C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04092001 WASHINGTON -- The World Bank today approved a US$ 14.46 million Financial Sector Technical Assistance Loan to Brazil. The central objective...
- Research articles 2001-09-05
- Financial Sector and the SEC Short Selling Rule
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Given that the weak performance of the Financial sector over the last two days has coincided with the expiration of the SEC's crackdown on naked short selling, there are some who think the timing of the two events is more than a coincidence. ...
- External links 2008-08-13
- Average Hourly Performance of the Financial Sector
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Even though the S&P 500 Financial sector is down more than 50% since the start of last September, the sector has actually averaged gains during two hours of the day since then. As shown below, the 2 PM to 3 PM ET...
- External links 2009-03-26
- Overreaction by the Financial Sector to the Upside
- In the meltdown of the past year, financials plunged as investors feared many banks would fail, much like Lehman Brothers. As the market realized that the government was able to prop up the weakest of the “to big to fail” banks, some level of confidence returned. Beginning in March, the...
- External links 2009-09-25
- Foreign Direct Investment in the Financial Sector of Emerging Market Economies
- Foreign presence in the financial sector of emerging market economies EMEs increased dramatically over the course of the 1990s. In the second half of the decade, financial sector foreign direct investment FSFDI inflows were about eight times that of the preceding five years. While banks accounted for the lion's share...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- WORLD BANK: European Commission & World Bank sponsor Financial Sector Regulation and Supervision seminar.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-25 June 1999-WORLD BANK: European Commission & World Bank co-sponsor Financial Sector Regulation and Supervision seminar C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:240699 PRAGUE -- A two-day workshop on financial sector regulation and supervision in the context of European Union accession opened...
- Research articles 1999-06-25
- ADB approves third subprogram loan for the development of Cambodia's financial sector.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-10 October 2005-ADB: ADB approves third subprogram loan for the development of Cambodia's financial sectorC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07102005 MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank ADB has approved the third subprogram loan of US$10 million under a Financial Sector...
- Research articles 2005-10-10
- Brazil -- World Bank approves USD404.04 million loan to strengthen Brazil's financial sector USD8.8 million for fiscal and financial management also approved.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-25 May 2001-WORLD BANK: Brazil -- World Bank approves USD404.04 million loan to strengthen Brazil's financial sector USD8.8 million for fiscal and financial management also approved C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:24052001 WASHINGTON -- The World Bank today approved a...
- Research articles 2001-05-25
- Long-Term Charts of the Financial Sector
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: A look at long-term charts of the S&P 500 Financial sector is downright depressing. The first chart below dates back to 1990, and as shown, the sector closed at its lowest level since March 1995 yesterday. The sector is now down...
- External links 2009-01-21
- Long-Term Charts of the Financial Sector
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: A look at long-term charts of the S&P 500 Financial sector is downright depressing. The first chart below dates back to 1990, and as shown, the sector closed at its lowest level since March 1995 yesterday. The sector is now down...
- External links 2009-01-22
- S&P 500 Financial Sector Trendlines
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: The S&P 500 Financial sector is trading down about 1.7% today after a 2% decline yesterday. If this decline holds, it will be the first back to back 1%+ decline for the sector since July 7th - July 8th. With today's...
- External links 2009-09-24
- Three Key Chinese Financial Sector ADRs
- Tom Malthus submits: As a follow-up to my energy sector ADR piece, I am going to take a look at the Chinese and Hong Kong Financial sector ADRs. There are 3 Chinese and Hong Kong ADRs within the GICS financial sector: China Life Insurance LFC, E-House EJ,...
- External links 2008-08-06
- LEGATO PROVIDES ONLINE DATA SOLUTIONS FOR FINANCIAL SECTOR
- AsiaInfo Services 09-17-2003 Legato Provides Online Data Solutions for Financial Sector CHINA, Sep 17, 2003 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Several days ago, Legato System, Inc. participated in a financial exhibition held from September 4 to September AsiaInfo Services ...
- Research articles 2003-09-17
- Loan to help reform Philippines' nonbank financial sector.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-2 September 2003-ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK: Loan to help reform Philippines' nonbank financial sectorC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09022003 MANILA, PHILIPPINES -- The Asian Development Bank ADB is supporting reforms to strengthen the Philippines' financial sector through a US$150 million loan...
- Research articles 2003-09-02
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