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Management of pension discount rate and financial health
Paula Diane Parker, Nancy J. Swanson, Michael T. DuganThis study aims to examine the unexpected portion of the pension discount rate to determine if the pension discount rate is being used to manage earnings for both financially…
An empirical analysis of bank concentration and monetary policy effectiveness
Sean SevereSubstantial research has been conducted on the direct effects of banking competition or lack thereof. However, little work has investigated how the market structure of banks can…
Foreign aid via 3-Party Covenant Financings of capital-intensive infrastructure
Paul Simshauser, Leonard Smith, Patrick Whish-Wilson, Tim NelsonThe purpose of this article is to analyse electricity supply in the Solomon Islands face extraordinarily expensive electricity tariffs – currently set at 96 c/kWh – making them…
Financial exclusion and financial capabilities in Canada
Laura LambThe financially excluded are often denied basic financial services from mainstream banking institutions, leading them to high-cost fringe finance institutions (FFIs) such as…
Pretrade and risk-based clearing: A case study of American International Group’s super senior CDS portfolio 2005-2008
William E. Balson, Gordon RausserRisk-based clearing has been proposed by Rausser et al. (2010) for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. This paper aims to illustrate the application of risk-based margins to a…
Crisis facilitates policy change, not liberalization
Marshall L. StockerCrisis events are windows of opportunity during which a country’s leaders may implement economic policy adjustments which change that country’s level of economic freedom and…
A financial framework for understanding macroeconomic cycles: The structure of production is relevant
Peter Lewin, Nicolas CachanoskyA comprehensive understanding business cycles needs to account not only for the allocation of resources over time but also for resource allocation across industries at any point…
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- Prof Franklin Mixon