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Financial Architecture and Financial Stability

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
This article studies the links between financial stability and the architecture of financial systems. We review the existing literature and provide organizing frameworks for analyzing three empirically important aspects of financial architecture: the rise of nonbank financial intermediaries, the regulatory response to these structural changes, and the ...
Allen, F, Walther, A
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Financial Literacy, Financial Education, and Downstream Financial Behaviors

Management Science, 2014
Policy makers have embraced financial education as a necessary antidote to the increasing complexity of consumers' financial decisions over the last generation. We conduct a meta-analysis of the relationship of financial literacy and of financial education to financial behaviors in 168 papers covering 201 prior studies.
Daniel Fernandes, John G. Lynch Jr., Richard G. Netemeyer   +2 more
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Financial Crisis, Financial Globalization and Financial Development in Africa

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
This study unites two streams of research by simultaneously focusing on the impact of financial globalisation on financial development and pre- and post-crisis dynamics of the investigated relationship. The empirical evidence is based on 53 African countries for the period 2004-2011 and Generalised Method of Moments.
Asongu, Simplice, Nnanna, Joseph
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Financial instruments, financial reporting, and financial stability

Accounting and Business Research, 2012
I review new empirical evidence from the recent financial crisis on the relation between financial reporting and financial stability.
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Financial Markets [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
This paper provides a brief exposition of financial markets in Post Keynesian economics. Inspired by John Maynard Keynes's path-breaking insights into the role of liquidity and finance in monetary production economies Post Keynesian economics offers a refreshing alternative to mainstream (mis)conceptions in this area.
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Financial alchemists and financial shamans

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2018
AbstractProfessional money management appears to require little skill, yet its practitioners command astronomical salaries. Singh's theory of shamanism provides one possible explanation: Financial professionals are the shamans of the global economy. They cultivate the perception of superhuman traits, maintain grueling initiation rituals, and rely on ...
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Financial Markets, Financial Instruments, and Financial Engineering

2020
This chapter focuses on debt and equity. Debt is a contractual obligation to pay an amount to a lender on given dates; it may be secured or unsecured. The cost of debt is interest. Banks and other lenders provide the debt in buyouts. This debt may take many forms and be provided by many different market participants, including one or more of commercial
John Gilligan, Mike Wright
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Financial Literacy and Financial Education: An Overview

SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding empirical literature on financial literacy and financial education. We begin by discussing the stylized facts and demographic correlates of financial literacy, highlighting key trends across different population groups.
Kaiser, Tim, Lusardi, Annamaria
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Financial Econometrics, Financial Innovation, and Financial Stability

Journal of Financial Econometrics, 2008
Innovation in financial markets, spurred to a significant extent by developments in finance theory and financial econometrics, has played a critical role in spurring economic growth. However, the current turmoil in financial markets raises fundamental questions about the nature of financial innovation and the role of policymakers in maintaining ...
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Financial Instability, Financial Culture and Financial Reform

2011
We consider the financial market meltdown of the years 2007-9 as resulting from both the typical mechanism of boom-bust cycles as well as a result of the financial market culture of excessive risk taking, leveraging and risk transfer. In this final chapter we thus will also review and discuss the recent efforts of financial reform from both ...
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