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Bank Urged to Improve Crisis Response: LONDON (Reuters UK) - The Bank of England needs to improve its handling of financial stability and communications, MPs said on Wednesday, as pressure grows on financial authorities to bolster how they deal with crises. The Bank, the government and Financial Services Authority have faced...; Tags: Bank, Financial, Governor, Parliament, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Oukbs; News items 2008-05-07
Condominium at 77 governors Road: The Condominium at 77 Governors Road in Dundas brings higher-quality design and construction to the speculative condominium market. This building, owned by Urban Horse Developments, is the first phase of a larger Spencer Creek Development located on a 0.5 ha abandoned industrial site. Project architects McCallum Sather Architects Inc. of...; Tags: condominium, Governor, benefit; Case studies
How Leaders Go Bad (i.e. Spitzer): Two interesting views on the career suicide of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. Writing in BusinessWeek, Harvard Business School professor Bill George fits Spitzer into a failed leadership type he terms "rationalizer." I believe Spitzer's profile closely fits the rationalizer, one who gets so caught...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Spitzer, leadership, leader; Blog posts 2008-03-20
Crisis Management Strategy: Prayer?: The south's drying out in a drought, and government officials are starting to wonder ifÂ the devil went down to Georgia. Sonny Perdue, the state's governor, is doing everything in his power -- including invoking a higher one -- to combat the drought. Today he'll join lawmakers and ministers on the...; Tags: Leadership, Financial accounting, Lori Deschene, crisis management, drought, Sonny Perdue, Prayer; Blog posts 2007-11-13
Are Longer Bankruptcies Really More Costly?: We test the widely held assumption that longer restructurings are more costly. In contrast to earlier studies, we use instrumental variables to control for the endogeneity of restructuring time and creditor return. Instrumenting proves critical to our finding that creditor recovery rates increase with duration for roughly 1½ years following...; Tags: Litigation, bankruptcy, benefit; White papers 2006-06-01

Mapping Uncharted Issues: The World Economic Forum piloted a new poll in December 2005 with Food & Beverage, Consumer Goods and Retail Governors to find out what was on their minds. By January 12, 2005, 19 Governors had responded, and their top five interests included the falling dollar, doing business in China and...; Tags: Bain & Co., Governor, food, marketing, industry; White papers 2005-01-27
Global Financial Integration: A Collection of New Research: This paper summarizes and draws together the work reported in eight research papers written by staff economists of the BoardÆs Division of International Finance as part of a project on global financial integration. The eight papers are also International Finance Discussion Papers, the numbers of which are specified on the...; Tags: Financial accounting, financial integration, finance, financial; White papers 2004-10-01
Cash Flows and Discount Rates, Industry and Country Effects, and Co-Movement in Stock Returns: This paper examines the relative importance of global, country-specific, and industry specific factors in both the cash flow and discount rate components of equity returns between 1995 and 2003. The framework draws upon previously separate literatures on country versus industry effects and (forward- looking) cash flow versus discount rate components...; Tags: Strategy, Investment, cash flow, industry, stock, equity; White papers 2004-09-01
Look at Me Now: The Role of Cross-Listing in Attracting U.S. Investors: This paper uses a comprehensive 1997 survey to examine U.S. investors' preferences for foreign equities. It provides a variety of firm characteristics that can influence U.S. investment, but the most important determinant is whether the stock is cross-listed on a U.S. exchange. All else equal, the paper finds that firms...; Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, Financial services, U.S., investor, equity, accounting, survey, stock; White papers 2004-08-01
Is the Corporate Loan Market Globally Integrated? A Pricing Puzzle: The study offers evidence that interest rate spreads on syndicated loans to corporate borrowers are economically significantly smaller in Europe than in the U.S., other things equal. Differences in borrower, loan and lender characteristics associated with equilibrium mechanisms suggested in the literature do not appear to explain the phenomenon. Borrowers...; Tags: Pricing, Marketing research, Financial services, borrower, pricing strategy, interest rate, bank; White papers 2004-07-28
Capital Controls and the International Transmission of U.S. Money Shocks: This paper assess whether capital controls effectively insulate countries from U.S. monetary shocks, looking simultaneously at a large range of country experiences in a unified estimation framework. The paper estimates the effect of identified U.S. monetary shocks on the exchange rate and foreign country interest rates, and test whether countries...; Tags: interest rate, U.S.; White papers 2003-09-01
Does Mortgage Hedging Amplify Movements In Long-term Interest Rates?: The growth of the mortgage market in recent years has raised the question of what effects, if any, the hedging of mortgage portfolios has on the behavior of long-term interest rates. This paper finds that the volatility of the ten-year swap rate implied by swaptions increases when the prepayment risk...; Tags: Mortgages, volatility, interest rate; White papers 2003-08-01
Monetary Policy And The Economic Outlook: The subpar performance of the U.S. economy extended into the first half of 2003. Although accommodative macroeconomic policies and continued robust productivity growth helped to sustain aggregate demand, businesses remained cautious about spending and hiring. The Federal Reserve expects economic activity to strengthen later this year and in 2004, in...; Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, inflation, hiring, financial, performance; White papers 2003-07-15
U.S. Investor's Emerging Market Equity Portfolios: A Security-Level Analysis: This paper analyzes a unique data set and uncovers a remarkable result that casts a new light on the home bias phenomenon. The data are comprehensive, security-level holdings of emerging market equities by U.S. investors. It documents, as expected, that at a point in time U.S. portfolios are tilted towards...; Tags: Marketing research, Financial services, emerging market, U.S., equity, benefit; White papers 2003-07-01
Putting I.T. on the Short List: Advanced technology offers state governments one of the best tools to drive through this change by its ability to cut costs, enhance service delivery and create a citizen-centered government. For this reason, information technology should be a key component of each governor's management agenda. But beyond this bold statement about...; Tags: Deloitte & Touche, Governor, information technology, tool; White papers 2003-05-14
The Effects of War Risk on U.S. Financial Markets: These paper measures the effects of the risks associated with the war in Iraq on various U.S. financial variables using a heteroskedasticity based estimation technique. The results indicate that increases in what we call the “war risk” factor caused declines in Treasury yields and equity prices, a widening of lower-grade...; Tags: equity, financial; White papers 2003-04-23
Spillovers Across U.S Financial Markets: Movement in the prices of assets is likely to directly influence one another. This paper develops a model that identifies the contemporaneous interactions between asset prices in the U.S financial markets by relying on the hetroskedascticity in their movements. In particular it estimates a structural form GARCH model that includes...; Tags: Asset management, Financial Planning, Financial services, Investment, asset price, asset, risk management, interest rate, stock market, accounting, stock; White papers 2003-04-23
Leading: Leading is the art of influencing the work behavior of others in the organization towards smooth functioning of organizational systems and processes. A leader has skills required to motivate, influence, and direct others towards attainment of certain long term goals. Leadership, as a process, can be visualized from different perspectives....; Tags: leadership, leader; Presentations 2003-01-01
Firm-Level Access to International Capital Markets: Evidence From Chilean Equities: High growth, liquid Chilean firms have greater relative weights in U.S. equity portfolios, but the most important determinant of a firm's portfolio weight is whether it is listed on a U.S. exchange. Cross listing does not, however, appear to have permanent benefits: Weights in U.S. portfolios of firms that cross...; Tags: Financial services, Investment, capital market, U.S., equity, benefit; White papers 2003-01-01
A Guide to Choosing Absolute Bank Capital Requirements: Resampling implementation of a stress-scenario approach to estimating portfolio default loss distributions is proposed as the basis for estimates of the appropriate absolute level of economic capital allocations for portfolio credit risk. Estimates are presented for stress scenarios of varying severity. Implications of use of different analysis time horizons are...; Tags: capital structure, bank, allocation, analysis; White papers 2002-05-01