Competition in the Þnancial sector is more complex than in the rest of the economy. On the one hand, concentration in the banking industry reduces (static) efficiency as it does in any industry. On the other hand, concentration may also affect the stability of the banking industry in ways that have no counterpart in other industries. In this paper we consider a variety of models of competition ...

A widespread opinion before the credit crisis of 2007/8 was that securitisation enhances financial stability by dispersing credit risk. After the credit crisis, securitisation was blamed for allowing the hot potato of bad loans to be passed to unsuspecting investors. Both views miss the endogeneity of credit supply. Securitisation enables credit expansion through higher leverage of the financia...

Most recent evidence is provided for fiscal years 2009 through 2013 where the University experienced consistent growth in Net Assets, Operating Revenues, Endowment Investments, Capital Investments and Bond Indebtedness. The University’s Statement of Changes in Net Assets (SRECNA), [1] Statement of Unrestricted Net Assets (SUNA), [2] as well as the Statement of Net Assets (SNA) [3] and operation...

On the macro-economic policy side of Central Banking a remarkable consensus has been emerging over the last two decades. This covers both the applicable theoretical framework for analysing the transmission mechanism of monetary policy and also the appropriate institutional structure for the Central Bank to deploy its macro-economic policies. The consensus about the latter structure generally in...