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Inflation and Growth

by Robert J. Barro , 1996
"... In recent years, many central banks have placed increased emphasis on price stability. Monetary policy—whether expressed in terms of interest rates or growth of monetary aggregates—has been increasingly geared toward the achievement of low and stable inflation. Central bankers and most other obs ..."
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In recent years, many central banks have placed increased emphasis on price stability. Monetary policy—whether expressed in terms of interest rates or growth of monetary aggregates—has been increasingly geared toward the achievement of low and stable inflation. Central bankers and most other

Stock Markets, Banks, and Economic Growth

by Ross Levine, Sara Zervos , 1998
"... This paper -- a product of the Finance and Private Sector Development Division, Policy Research Department -- is pa't of a larger effort in the department to understand the links between the financial system and economic growth. The study was funded by the Bank's Research Support Budget un ..."
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This paper -- a product of the Finance and Private Sector Development Division, Policy Research Department -- is pa't of a larger effort in the department to understand the links between the financial system and economic growth. The study was funded by the Bank's Research Support Budget

Efficient Unemployment Insurance

by Robert Shimer, Iván Werning, Robert Shimer, Iván Werning - Journal of Political Economy , 1999
"... This paper argues that a risk-averse worker’s after-tax reservation wage encodes all the relevant information about her welfare. This insight leads to a novel test for the optimality of unemployment insurance based on the responsiveness of reservation wages to unemployment benefits. Some existing es ..."
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of the structure of the model, it is entirely behavioral and does not require separate risk-aversion estimates, and it is robust to various extensions including worker heterogeneity. Shimer’s research is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. Werning is grateful for the hospitality

Tastes and technology in a two-country model of the business cycle: Explaining international co-movements," Working Paper 9019, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

by Alan C. Stockman, Linda L. Tesar, To Thank Mark Bils, Mary Finn - Journal of International Money and Finance , 1991
"... Mr. Stockman gratefully acknowledges research support from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland ..."
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Mr. Stockman gratefully acknowledges research support from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Government Ownership of Banks

by Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-silanes, Andrei Shleifer - Journal of Finance , 2001
"... We assemble data on government ownership of banks around the world. The data show that such ownership is large and pervasive, and higher in countries with low levels of per capita income, backward financial systems, interventionist and inefficient governments, and poor protection of property rights. ..."
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Science Foundation, the Dean's Research Fund at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and the Ira Katz Research Fund at the University of Michigan for financial support. This paper discusses a neglected aspect of financial systems of many countries: government ownership of banks

Overcoming the Liability of Foreignness

by Srilata Zaheer - Academy of Management Journal , 1995
"... This study addressed the question of whether firms in a competitive, globally integrated environment face a "liability of foreignness " and to what extent either importing home-country organizational capabilities or copying the practices of successful local firms can help them over-come th ..."
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-come this liability. Predictions were tested with a paired sample of 24 foreign exchange trading rooms of major Western and Japanese banks in New York and Tokyo. Results support the existence of a liability of foreignness and tbe role of a firm's administrative beritage in providing competitive advantage to its

Factors Influencing the Adoption of Internet Banking

by Margaret Tan, Thompson S. H. Teo - Journal of the Association for Information Systems , 2000
"... A research framework based on the theory of planned behavior (Ajzen 1985) and the diffusion of innovations theory (Rogers 1983) was used to identify the attitudinal, social and perceived behavioral control factors that would influence the adoption of Internet banking. An online questionnaire was des ..."
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A research framework based on the theory of planned behavior (Ajzen 1985) and the diffusion of innovations theory (Rogers 1983) was used to identify the attitudinal, social and perceived behavioral control factors that would influence the adoption of Internet banking. An online questionnaire

2001b). “The Regulation and Supervision of Bank Around the World: A New Database

by James R. Barth, Ross Levine - in Robert E. Litan and Richard Herring, Editors, Integrating Emerging Market Countries into the Global Financial System, Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services, Brookings Institution
"... Kaufman and other participants at the January 2001 Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services, 4 th Annual Conference, "Integrating Emerging Market Countries Into Global Financial System, " are gratefully acknowledged. This research could not have been completed without the help of Iff ..."
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of Iffath Sharif and Cindy Lee, as well as financial support from the World Bank’s Financial Sector Board and the Research Committee. Xin Chen provided extraordinary research assistance. The authors wish to acknowledge the assistance of the Basel Committee of Bank Supervisors and the Financial Stability

A New Approach to Measuring Financial Contagion

by Kee-hong Bae, G. Andrew Karolyi, Ren M. Stulz, Thank Tom Santner, Mark Berliner, Bob Leone, Steve Cecchetti, Peter Christoffersen, Craig Doidge, Barry Eichengreen, David Hirshleifer, Roberto Rigobon, Richard Roll, Karen Wruck, Anonymous Referee, Cam Harvey , 2002
"... contagion captures the co-incidence of extreme return shocks across countries within a region the extent of contagion, its economic significance, and its determinants using a multinomial 1990s, we find that contagion, when measured by the co-incidence within and across regions of changes, and condit ..."
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*** Professor of Finance and Reese Chair of Banking and Monetary Economics, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research. The authors are grateful to the Dice Center for Research on Financial Economics for support. We thank Tom Santner, Mark

Generalization Performance of Support Vector Machines and Other Pattern Classifiers

by Peter Bartlett, John Shawe-taylor , 1998
"... this paper has been twofold. Firstly, we have stated the known results for high confidence bounds on the generalization error of SVMs in terms of the margin and number of support vectors. Secondly, we wanted to highlight that these results can only be obtained from a data-dependent analysis relying ..."
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Shawe-Taylor was supported in part by the EPSRC research grant number GR/K70366. Peter Bartlett was supported by the Australian Research Council. Appendix: Proof of Theorem 1.6
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