So on the one hand the Deputy Governor and his boss are out their urging banks – almost suggesting it is some sort of moral duty – to lend more freely, and on the other hand they are still pushing ahead with their plans to hugely increase actual capital requirements, something even thei...
Bank lending standards are surely partly endogenous (as the paper discusses) – when banks expect house prices to continue rising, they are more willing to lend, which helps to push house prices higher. That sort of self-fulfilling logic is exactly why changes in house prices (first up and ...
One of the key selection criteria for Euratechnologies when recruiting start-ups is that they want to be based in Lille or its surrounding area. And, once the business has graduated from the programme, everything is done to encourage it to stay — including offering office space on campus at...
More than half of the graduates work in one of the first four fields: private environmental/planning/engineering offices (15.1%); public administration (14.9%); universities (13.4%); or banks and insurances (9.9%). The table also contains the ratings by the professionals of how closely their...
This article compares the new Basel III capital requirements to the capital holdings of Canadian banks during the Great Depression. The goal of Basel III is to make large international banks financially stable so that government bailouts will not be necessary in the future as they were during the...