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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Financial regulation"”.
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Fragmentation in International Financial Regulation: Rethinking Financial Regulation for a Multipolar World
… – point to transformations in international financial regulation. As network governance faces greater constraints, it is fundamental to identify additional and complementary pathways for facilitating cross-border coordination and cooperation in contentious environments; for managing …
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Essays in financial regulation and corporate law
In the first essay, we investigate which provisions, among a set of twenty-four governance provisions followed by the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC), are correlated with firm value and stockholder returns. Based on this analysis, we put forward an entrenchment index based on six …
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Essays in Quantitative Risk Management for Financial Regulation of Operational Risk Models
… guidance and rules are provided to banks by financial regulators. A particular set of instructions outline requirements to calculate and set aside loss-absorbing regulatory capital to ensure the solvency of a bank. Mathematical models are typically used by banks to quantify sufficient amounts …
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Financial regulation and financial development in developing economies: case of South Africa
The study analyses financial regulation, specifically for the banking sector, set globally and implemented locally by different countries, and how it impacts financial development in the context of developing countries, considering the pace of reform since the 2008/9 financial crises and its …
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Rethinking the institutional structure of financial regulation in an era of fintech: the Nigerian case
… and how to adapt the institutional structure of financial regulation to address the risks, changes, and regulatory challenges of financial technology (Fintech). Drawing on authoritative literature and practical examples from various jurisdictions, including South Africa, United Kingdom, …
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Exploring Liberal Cosmopolitan Paths towards Global, Regional and National Financial Regulation (2008-2018): The Case of the European Union Financial Transactions Tax (EUFTT)
Following the 2008 global financial crisis, the failure of neoclassical regulatory/governance mechanisms and economic ideas, necessitated calls for the construction of new approaches that depart from the old accepted paradigm. Therefore, the thesis argues for a liberal cosmopolitan approach to …
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The impact of Financial Regulations to the Financial Sustainability of Micro- Financial Institutions in Tanzania: a case study of Morogoro municipality.
The study investigated on the impact of financial regulations on financial sustainability of microfinance institutions in Tanzania using the case study of Morogoro Municipality. Specifically To identify the extent the MFIs financial regulation on the financial sustainability of MFI’s in Tanzania, …
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Gambling on a bail-out : regulation, moral hazard and time inconsistencies in the international banking system
… process which banking institutions perform. Financial regulation is aimed at protecting banking systems and ensure financial stability. Various differences exist in the implementation and scope of financial regulation across financial markets and borders. These discrepancies challenge the …
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An assessment of the financial sustainability of savings and credit cooperative societies in Kenya
… of these institutions have experienced serious financial challenges that have led to some of them winding up or becoming dormant, resulting in a loss of funds for members. The primary objective of this study was to determine the factors that influence the financial sustainability of SACCOs in …
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Essays On Policy Dynamics Under Political Frictions
… differently. The second essay, Political-Driven Financial Regulatory Cycle, develops a positive theory of political-driven financial regulatory cycle. The key feature of the model is that the regulatory policy is determined through the interaction of financial sector special interest group, …
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Change in China's Banking Sector as an Institutional Evolution
… a more standardised and robust system of banking regulation and commercialise China’s state-owned banks. China’s large state-owned banks, which were technically insolvent in the 1990s, are now some of the biggest commercial banks in the world. There has been a remarkable transformation of systems …
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Regulatory Transgression? Drivers, Aims and Effects of Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Regulation in Pakistan
… of money laundering and terrorism financing regulation is a key feature of the contemporary global economy. Since 9/11 particularly, the remarkable growth of this field of regulation has been characterized by both scale and intensity. However, this drive towards regulatory convergence is …
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An exploration of the conduct of business legal and regulatory frameworks for cryptoassets in South Africa
… are among the many fintechrelated financial products popularised during the 2008 global financial crisis. They offer a decentralised system of value transfer, independent of central banks or governmental authorities. However, their unconventional nature creates significant risks, …
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Essays in International Financial Governance
The 2008 financial crisis revealed systemic weaknesses in the global financial architecture, gave rise to the most severe economic collapse since the Great Depression and engendered a fundamental shift in the prevailing consensus on financial governance. It reminded us of the fragility of the …
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The grammar of money : an analytical account of money as a discursive institution in light of the practice of complementary currencies
Since the global financial crisis in 2008, complementary currencies - from local initiatives like the Brixton Pound to timebanks, business-to-business currencies and, of course, Bitcoin - have received unprecedented attention by academics, policy makers, the media and the general public. However, …
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A tale of two arbs : essays on agency and financial institutions
… two essays covering topics in the economics of financial institutions with an emphasis on certain types of potential agency problems. In particular, it investigates two radically different types of "arbs": arbitrators and arbitrageurs. The first essay studies securities arbitration to shed light …
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An Analysis of Basel III as a Prophylactic
… on Banking Supervision’s response to the global financial crisis that broke out in the summer of 2007, while the second is the examination of the role of law in crisis. The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is the international agency tasked with standard setting for internationally active …
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Explaining the complexities of Hong Kong’s financial securities legislation to enhance trust among small investors through individual case reports as stories
… out with the purpose of contributing to trusting financial securities regulation in Hong Kong for small investors when the system is highly complex. The aim of this particular project, to contribute to that purpose, was to explore sets of cases reported on by the regulators and by the media. The …
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Essays in financial economics
… can be applied to various settings including financial regulation and analyst forecasting. In the second chapter, based on joint work with Tetsuya Kaji, we study how Value-at- Risk (VaR) constraint affects the amount of information that price conveys in an economy with asymmetric information. …
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