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Save Money By De-Cluttering Your Home: How Cleaning Up Can Help Your Finances
Jan 2010
De-cluttering your home can make it more inviting, reduce your stress and help you avoid health problems aggravated by mold or dirt. But did you know that it could lower your costs and even earn...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
How Much Do You Need For Retirement?: Find Your Personal Retirement Number
Jan 2010
What do you want to do when you retire? Many people hope to travel, spend more time with their families or enjoy their favorite activities, or just relax with no work or money worries. Help your...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
Get Started On Saving For Retirement: 5 Steps To Start Your Retirement Plan
Jan 2010
If you are just starting out your work life, retirement may seem too far off to be a concern. But the decisions you make now will determine how comfortable you are decades down the road. The good...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
Fast-Track Retirement Savings After You Return To Work: How To Reach Your Retirement Goals In Less time
Jan 2010
If you've recently re-entered the work force you have a second job that needs your serious attention: Getting your retirement plan back on track. You may not have been able to keep up with your...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
Maximize Your Savings In 2010: How To Create A Savings Plan For The New Year
Jan 2010
Eat less. Exercise regularly. Why not add "Save more" to your list of New Year's Resolutions? Follow our step-by-step guide to create your 2010 personal savings plan. For one month, record...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
The Benefits Of A Savings Account: A Safe And Reliable Way To Grow Your Money
Jan 2010
One of the most useful benefits of a savings account is that your money is out of your checking account, where you may risk spending it on non-essentials, but still easily accessible in case you...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
What Is Savings Allocation: Reduce Your Financial Risks By Varying Your Investments
Jan 2010
Worried about the news of people losing hard-earned money in sinking investments? One smart way to reduce your financial risk is to diversify your savings. There are plenty of ways to build your...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
How To Approach Savings As A Couple: Get Sensitive Money Matters Out In The Open
Feb 2009
What would you rather do - get a tooth filled or talk with your partner about money? For many people, a trip to the dentist might win out. There's a good reason people want to avoid the subject....
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
Managing Your Income During Retirement: Retirement Finance Tips To Make Your Savings Last
Jan 2010
No matter how much you love your job, retirement holds the wonderful promise of freedom from your current work schedule. You can fill those former workdays with everything from a hobby to charity...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
What Are Your Top Financial Concerns?: Take Action On Seven Money Worries
Jan 2010
According to a recent Gallup poll, most of us are facing a range of financial challenges, from trying to earn enough money to live comfortably, to the cost of health care. The best way to confront...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
Making Changes To Help Avoid Overdrawing Your Accounts
Jan 2010
Customers are looking for more control in managing their daily finances and Bank of America is responding with solutions to help meet their needs. There are newly issued Federal requirements...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
6 Ways To Cut Transportation Costs: Tips To Save On Fuel, Insurance, Maintenance And Ownership
Jan 2010
Transportation can be one of our biggest expenses. In 2008, the average household spent $8,604 on transportation, or 13.5% of income. The only thing we spend more on is housing - even food takes...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
Handling A Cash Flow Crunch: Tips For Surviving A Financial Shortfall
Jan 2010
It can happen to the best of us. A sudden emergency or a bad alignment of due dates and wham! A pile up of bills and not enough money to pay them. This paper help you how to manage cash flow and...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
Get Motivated To Improve Your Financial Health
Jan 2010
A recent survey found that nearly three-quarters of Americans say financial concerns are their number one stress point. That's understandable given the current economic climate, but at the same...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
Funding Growth With Working Capital
Oct 2008
To achieve this level of organic growth, Philips realized it needed to maximize its working capital allocation, which was largely tied up within its supply chain. "Ideally, we would like to...
Provided by Citigroup
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Webcasts
Top Five: Cutting Costs
Jun 2010
If you're trying to figure out ways to help your bottom line, cutting costs is always an option. This webcast explains five boot-strapping strategies.
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Business Answers: Managing Debt & Buying Vs. Leasing
Jun 2010
Ray Leach, serial entrepreneur and CEO of JumpStart, and Divya Gugnani, former venture capitalist and CEO of the website Behind the Burner, answer viewer questions about managing debt, and buying...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
7 Tips For Choosing A Business Broker
Aug 2010
For serial entrepreneur Jane Angelich, deciding to sell the San Francisco uniform store she had owned for 13 years was easy. Finding an attentive business broker to help with the transaction...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
The Paper Records You Need And Those You Can Do Without
Apr 2010
As a business owner, there are certain documents that you just have to have. From tax returns dating back seven years to client records stretching back to the beginning of your business, you can...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
The Working Capital Trap
Jun 2010
Every company wants to grow. Growth is a sign of vitality and is or should be a source of profit. Perhaps, profitable growth is a better way to describe what everyone aspires to achieve. If that...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Recession-Fighting Serendipity: Well-Timed Government Spending Can Blunt Economic Contractions
Jul 2010
Japan's economy has been stuck in what economists call the "Zero bound" since 1996. The zero bound is a danger zone where an economy's short-term nominal interest rate is at or near zero percent....
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
New 1099 Filing Requirements For 2011: Truth Serum Or More Red Tape?
Jul 2010
1099 forms fall under the category of "information returns". Businesses must file information returns to report certain transactions. There are over 120 different transactions that require the...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
3 Questions You Must Ask Before Investing In New Equipment
Jun 2010
Evaluating the purchase of new equipment can be a complicated process. There are many stakeholders to consider, vendors are aggressively bombarding you with information and you have limited time...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
The High Cost Of Employee Turnover
Apr 2010
It's impossible to be all things to all people. No matter how great your company is, it's likely that some of your employees will eventually move on to other opportunities. That may be costing you...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Accounts Receivable: An Unlikely Source Of Cash
Mar 2010
Your accounts receivable are obviously worth money: just as soon as a client or customer gets around to paying his invoice, you'll have money in your hands. But in the meanwhile, those invoices...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Should You Buy A Stock When It's Down?
Mar 2010
Conventional wisdom says that you make money when you buy, not when you sell. Think about it: Most of the time, you're better off buying the cheapest house in the priciest neighborhood and waiting...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
What Every Business Owner Should Know About Collateral
Mar 2010
Given the way banks are getting the hairy eyeball from the Feds these days, if you want a loan you can be sure you'll have to pledge something as collateral - your signature won't be good enough....
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
4 Secrets Of Meaningful Projections
Mar 2010
Most business owners feel one of two ways about projections. Either they feel projections are worthless because they cannot predict the future, or they feel projections are a mechanism to make...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
The Three Budgets
Mar 2010
We're all optimistic about the future of our business. Without that optimism, we wouldn't be able to push through the challenges of small business ownership. Our dream of a sunny future and our...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Read Your Financial Statements Like A Banker
Mar 2010
Let's face it - financial statements aren't the most fascinating things to read. Unless, that is, you're a banker. Your balance sheet and income statement tell a banker more about your business...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Downsizing The Balance Sheet: The Old Orthodoxy?
Jan 2010
Pressure on margins has seen companies strive for asset-light balance sheets. Recession provides a stern test for this strategy: some companies found that it was survival of the fattest, not...
Provided by London Business School
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Webcasts
Hurricane On Wall Street: Managing Large-Scale Financial Crises
Sep 2008
Zvi Bodie, the Norman and Adele Barron Professor of Finance and Economics, Boston University School of Management, proposes solutions to the financial sector for managing crisis. He explains why...
Provided by Boston University School of Management
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Webcasts
Olesya Shubov, Student In Math Finance, Discusses Stochastic Calculus
Jul 2009
Olesya Shubov discusses her favorite class in the Mathematical Finance Program, Stochastic Calculus, because it combines theoretical knowledge and the computational skills needed to program...
Provided by Boston University School of Management
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Webcasts
Mark Williams, On Bloomberg Asia, Talks "Worst-Case Scenarios" Of Subprime Crisis Fallout
Mar 2008
Bloomberg Asia interviews Mark Williams, Boston University School of Management executive-in-residence in finance and economics, and MBA Program alumnus (GSM '93). On the heels of a week of...
Provided by Boston University School of Management
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Webcasts
Fixing The Financial System
Jan 2010
Julian Franks, Professor of Finance at London Business School, discusses why we cannot wait to fix the financial system, despite not fully understanding the origins of the crisis.
Provided by London Business School
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Webcasts
The Hoare Govett Small Companies Index Report, Published By RBS
Jan 2010
Mid and small-cap companies had their best share price performance since 1977, according to new research by Professors Dimson and Marsh.
Provided by London Business School
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Webcasts
MBA TV Episode 10
Jan 2010
In this webcast, the presenters speak to Diane Morgan, Director of Career Services, and ask her about the School's approach to meeting the challenges presented by the current global economic...
Provided by London Business School
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White Papers
Three Great American Disinflations
Jun 2007
This paper analyzes the role of transparency and credibility in accounting for the widely divergent macroeconomic effects of three episodes of deliberate monetary contraction: the post-Civil War...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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White Papers
Exchange Rate Pass-Through To Export Prices: Assessing Some Cross-Country Evidence
Sep 2007
A growing body of empirical work has found evidence of a decline in exchange rate pass-through to import prices in a number of industrial countries. This paper complements this work by examining...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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White Papers
Quantitative Implications Of Indexed Bonds In Small Open Economies
Oct 2007
This paper analyzes the macroeconomic implications of real-indexed bonds, indexed to the terms of trade or GDP, using a general equilibrium model of a small open economy with financial frictions....
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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White Papers
Assessing The Systemic Risk Of A Heterogeneous Portfolio Of Banks During The Recent Financial Crisis
Oct 2009
This paper extends the approach of measuring and stress-testing the systemic risk of a banking sector in Huang, Zhou, and Zhu (2009) to identifying various sources of financial instability and to...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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White Papers
Firm Volatility And Banks: Evidence From U.S. Banking Deregulation
Sep 2009
This paper exploits the staggered timing of state-level banking deregulation in the United States during the 1980s to study the causal effect of banking integration on the volatility of...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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White Papers
Constant Proportion Debt Obligations: A Post-Mortem Analysis Of Rating Models
Sep 2009
In its complexity and its vulnerability to market volatility, the CPDO might be viewed as the poster child for the excesses of financial engineering in the credit market. This paper examines the...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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White Papers
Mergers And Sequential Innovation: Evidence From Patent Citations
Jan 2010
An extensive literature has investigated the effect of market structure on innovation. A persistent concern is that market structure may be endogenous to innovation. Firms may choose to merge so...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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White Papers
The Depth Of Negative Equity And Mortgage Default Decisions
May 2010
A central question in the literature on mortgage default is at what point underwater homeowners walk away from their homes even if they can afford to pay. The author studies borrowers from...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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White Papers
Exports, Borders, Distance, And Plant Size
May 2010
The fact that large manufacturing plants export relatively more than small plants has been at the foundation of much work in the international trade literature. The author examines this fact using...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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White Papers
The Information Content Of High-Frequency Data For Estimating Equity Return Models And Forecasting Risk
Jul 2010
The author demonstrate that the parameters controlling skewness and kurtosis in popular equity return models estimated at daily frequency can be obtained almost as precisely as if volatility is...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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An Analysis Of Government Guarantees And The Functioning Of Asset-Backed Securities Markets
Sep 2010
Mortgage securitization has been tried several times in the United States and each time it has failed amid a credit bust. In what is now a familiar recurring history, during the credit boom,...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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White Papers
Monthly Estimates Of U.S. Cross-Border Securities Positions
Nov 2007
This paper reports monthly estimates of U.S. cross-border securities positions obtained by combining the (now) annual TIC surveys with monthly transactions data adjusted for various differences in...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Testing The Expectations Hypothesis When Interest Rates Are Near Integrated
Oct 2008
Nominal interest rates are unlikely to be generated by unit-root processes. Using data on short and long interest rates from eight developed and six emerging economies, the authors test the...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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White Papers
Estimating The Parameters Of A Small Open Economy DSGE Model: Identifiability And Inferential Validity
Nov 2008
This paper estimates the parameters of a stylized dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model using maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods, paying special attention to the issue of weak...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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White Papers
The Taylor Rule And Forecast Intervals For Exchange Rates
Mar 2009
This paper attacks the Meese-Rogoff (exchange rate disconnect) puzzle from a different perspective: out-of-sample interval forecasting. Most studies in the literature focus on point forecasts. In...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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White Papers
Exchange Rates Dependence: What Drives It?
Mar 2009
Exchange rate movements are difficult to predict but there appear to be discernible patterns in how currencies jointly appreciate or depreciate against the dollar. In this paper, the author...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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White Papers
Consumption Response To Expected Future Income
May 2009
This paper shows empirical evidence in favor of forward-looking household consumption - that consumption today depends directly on household-specific ex-ante expectations of future income. This...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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White Papers
On the Solvency Of Nations: Are Global Imbalances Consistent With Intertemporal Budget Constraints?
Jun 2009
Theory predicts that a nation's stochastic intertemporal budget constraint is satisfied if net foreign assets (NFA) are integrated of any finite order, or if net exports (NX) and NFA satisfy an...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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White Papers
Term Structure Forecasting Using Macro Factors And Forecast Combination
Jan 2010
The authors examine the importance of incorporating macroeconomic information and, in particular, accounting for model uncertainty when forecasting the term structure of U.S. interest rates. They...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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White Papers
Imperfect Credibility And The Zero Lower Bound On The Nominal Interest Rate
Jun 2010
When the nominal interest rate reaches its zero lower bound, credibility is crucial for conducting forward guidance. The authors determine optimal policy in a New Keynesian model when the central...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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White Papers
What It Takes To Build a Business Today
Aug 2010
Too many times the tail is wagging the dog. The business is pushing the executive team around, and the solutions are either "Work faster" or "identify a problem and fix it". It is not uncommon for...
Provided by Reynolds Consulting
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White Papers
Now Is The Winter Of Our Discontent
Mar 2008
If one subscribes to the notion of economic cycles as seasons, then people are in a period of deep economic winter. Ideally, people would all be able to manage the businesses to the rhythm of long...
Provided by iOctane
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White Papers
Inflation (Mis)perceptions In The Euro Area
Oct 2007
There has been a growing interest on inflation perceptions in the euro area, in particular, following the euro cash changeover. It has been pointed out that a gap emerged between observed and...
Provided by Banco de Portugal
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White Papers
Is Time Ripe For Price Level Path Stability?
Oct 2007
In this paper, the author provides a critical and selective survey of arguments relevant for the assessment of the case for price level path stability (PLPS). Using a standard hybrid new Keynesian...
Provided by Banco de Portugal
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White Papers
Household Wealth In Portugal: Revised Series
Sep 2008
Household wealth can play an important role in modeling households' consumption/savings decisions. Permanent income and life-cycle theories of consumer, for instance, predict a relationship...
Provided by Banco de Portugal
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White Papers
The Determinants Of Portuguese Banks? Capital Buffers
Jan 2008
The purpose of the present paper is to shed some light on why Portuguese banks hold significant capital buffers above the required regulatory minimum, through the estimation of a dynamic panel...
Provided by Banco de Portugal
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White Papers
The Effects Of Low-Cost Countries On Portuguese Manufacturing Import Prices
Mar 2008
This paper estimates the direct effect of low-cost countries on Portuguese manufacturing import prices, using detailed data both by product and by geographical market for the period 1997- 2006....
Provided by Banco de Portugal
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White Papers
Wage And Price Dynamics In Portugal
Sep 2008
This paper investigates the persistence of aggregate wages and prices in Portugal assuming a model of a unionized economy with imperfect competition. An impulse response analysis is conducted...
Provided by Banco de Portugal
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White Papers
Forecasting Investment: A Fishing Contest Using Survey Data
Oct 2008
This paper assesses the usefulness of business surveys as a source of information for investment developments in Portugal. This will be achieved by what will be named a "Fishing contest", where...
Provided by Banco de Portugal
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White Papers
Inflation Expectations In The Euro Area: Are Consumers Rational?
Dec 2008
In this paper, the author proposes a quantitative measure for inflation expectations based on consumer survey data. Thereafter, the author proceeds to testing the rationality assumption. This...
Provided by Banco de Portugal
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White Papers
Finite Sample Performance Of Frequency And Time Domain Tests For Seasonal Fractional Integration
Jan 2009
Seasonal movements are considered to be an important component of many time-series in econometric modeling and forecasting exercises. For most economic and financial variables, seasonal patterns...
Provided by Banco de Portugal
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White Papers
The Monetary Transmission Mechanism For A Small Open Economy In A Monetary Union
Feb 2009
This paper develops a stylized model of a small open economy integrated in a monetary union. Since the small country trades with countries inside and outside of the monetary union there are three...
Provided by Banco de Portugal
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White Papers
International Comovement Of Stock Market Returns: A Wavelet Analysis
Mar 2009
The assessment of the comovement among international stock markets is of key interest, for example, for the international portfolio diversification literature. In this paper, the author...
Provided by Banco de Portugal
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White Papers
The Interest Rate Pass-Through Of The Portuguese Banking System: Characterization And Determinants
Apr 2009
Using micro level data, this work characterizes the interest rate pass-through in loan and deposit retail rates of the Portuguese banking system. It concludes that the long-run impact of a change...
Provided by Banco de Portugal
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White Papers
Credit Risk And Capital Requirements For The Portuguese Banking System
May 2009
In this paper, an assessment of the impact of Basel II capital requirement rules driven by credit risk of non-financial firms is performed. Intervals of variation for the risk drivers are...
Provided by Banco de Portugal
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White Papers
Money Is An Experience Good: Competition And Trust In The Private Provision Of Money
Aug 2009
The author studies the interplay between competition and trust as efficiency-enhancing mechanisms in the private provision of money. With commitment, trust is automatically achieved and...
Provided by Banco de Portugal
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White Papers
Monetary Policy And The Financing Of Firms
Aug 2009
During financial crises, credit conditions tend to worsen for all agents in the economy. In the press, there are frequent calls for a looser monetary policy stance, on the grounds that this helps...
Provided by Banco de Portugal
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White Papers
Evidence From Surveys Of Price-Setting Managers: Policy Lessons And Directions For Ongoing Research
Dec 2009
Understanding the determinants of individual price setting behavior is crucial for the formulation of monetary policy, especially in an economy experiencing ongoing structural change. These...
Provided by Banco de Portugal
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White Papers
Financial Stability And Policy Cooperation
Jul 2010
Within the context of the Global Crisis, this paper examines the ongoing policy challenges in establishing a European framework for financial regulation and supervision. The author does so taking...
Provided by Banco de Portugal
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White Papers
Exports, Imports And Wages: Evidence From Matched Firm-Worker-Product Panels
Feb 2010
The analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which are also typically treated as a composite good. However, the author shows in...
Provided by Banco de Portugal
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White Papers
Counterfactual Analysis Of Bank Mergers
May 2010
Estimating the impact of bank mergers on credit granted and on interest rates requires a framework that allows to disentangle the effect of changes in market structure generated by mergers from...
Provided by Banco de Portugal
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White Papers
Short And Long Interest Rate Targets
Jul 2010
The author shows that short and long nominal interest rates are independent monetary policy instruments. The pegging of both helps solving the problem of multiplicity that arises when only short...
Provided by Banco de Portugal
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White Papers
The Trajectory Of Wealth In Retirement
Jan 2008
As the baby boomers begin to retire, a great deal remains unknown about the evolution of wealth toward the end of life. In this paper, the author develops a new measure of household resources that...
Provided by Federal Reserve Board
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White Papers
How Much Do You Need For Retirement?: Find Your Personal Retirement Number
Jan 2010
What do you want to do when you retire? Many people hope to travel, spend more time with their families or enjoy their favorite activities, or just relax with no work or money worries. Help your...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
Get Started On Saving For Retirement: 5 Steps To Start Your Retirement Plan
Jan 2010
If you are just starting out your work life, retirement may seem too far off to be a concern. But the decisions you make now will determine how comfortable you are decades down the road. The good...
Provided by Bank of America
-
White Papers
Fast-Track Retirement Savings After You Return To Work: How To Reach Your Retirement Goals In Less time
Jan 2010
If you've recently re-entered the work force you have a second job that needs your serious attention: Getting your retirement plan back on track. You may not have been able to keep up with your...
Provided by Bank of America
-
White Papers
Maximize Your Savings In 2010: How To Create A Savings Plan For The New Year
Jan 2010
Eat less. Exercise regularly. Why not add "Save more" to your list of New Year's Resolutions? Follow our step-by-step guide to create your 2010 personal savings plan. For one month, record...
Provided by Bank of America
-
White Papers
The Benefits Of A Savings Account: A Safe And Reliable Way To Grow Your Money
Jan 2010
One of the most useful benefits of a savings account is that your money is out of your checking account, where you may risk spending it on non-essentials, but still easily accessible in case you...
Provided by Bank of America
-
White Papers
What Is Savings Allocation: Reduce Your Financial Risks By Varying Your Investments
Jan 2010
Worried about the news of people losing hard-earned money in sinking investments? One smart way to reduce your financial risk is to diversify your savings. There are plenty of ways to build your...
Provided by Bank of America
-
White Papers
How To Approach Savings As A Couple: Get Sensitive Money Matters Out In The Open
Feb 2009
What would you rather do - get a tooth filled or talk with your partner about money? For many people, a trip to the dentist might win out. There's a good reason people want to avoid the subject....
Provided by Bank of America
-
White Papers
Managing Your Income During Retirement: Retirement Finance Tips To Make Your Savings Last
Jan 2010
No matter how much you love your job, retirement holds the wonderful promise of freedom from your current work schedule. You can fill those former workdays with everything from a hobby to charity...
Provided by Bank of America
-
White Papers
What Are Your Top Financial Concerns?: Take Action On Seven Money Worries
Jan 2010
According to a recent Gallup poll, most of us are facing a range of financial challenges, from trying to earn enough money to live comfortably, to the cost of health care. The best way to confront...
Provided by Bank of America
-
White Papers
Making Changes To Help Avoid Overdrawing Your Accounts
Jan 2010
Customers are looking for more control in managing their daily finances and Bank of America is responding with solutions to help meet their needs. There are newly issued Federal requirements...
Provided by Bank of America
-
White Papers
6 Ways To Cut Transportation Costs: Tips To Save On Fuel, Insurance, Maintenance And Ownership
Jan 2010
Transportation can be one of our biggest expenses. In 2008, the average household spent $8,604 on transportation, or 13.5% of income. The only thing we spend more on is housing - even food takes...
Provided by Bank of America
-
White Papers
Handling A Cash Flow Crunch: Tips For Surviving A Financial Shortfall
Jan 2010
It can happen to the best of us. A sudden emergency or a bad alignment of due dates and wham! A pile up of bills and not enough money to pay them. This paper help you how to manage cash flow and...
Provided by Bank of America
-
White Papers
Get Motivated To Improve Your Financial Health
Jan 2010
A recent survey found that nearly three-quarters of Americans say financial concerns are their number one stress point. That's understandable given the current economic climate, but at the same...
Provided by Bank of America
-
White Papers
Funding Growth With Working Capital
Oct 2008
To achieve this level of organic growth, Philips realized it needed to maximize its working capital allocation, which was largely tied up within its supply chain. "Ideally, we would like to...
Provided by Citigroup
-
Webcasts
Top Five: Cutting Costs
Jun 2010
If you're trying to figure out ways to help your bottom line, cutting costs is always an option. This webcast explains five boot-strapping strategies.
Provided by American Express
-
Webcasts
Business Answers: Managing Debt & Buying Vs. Leasing
Jun 2010
Ray Leach, serial entrepreneur and CEO of JumpStart, and Divya Gugnani, former venture capitalist and CEO of the website Behind the Burner, answer viewer questions about managing debt, and buying...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
7 Tips For Choosing A Business Broker
Aug 2010
For serial entrepreneur Jane Angelich, deciding to sell the San Francisco uniform store she had owned for 13 years was easy. Finding an attentive business broker to help with the transaction...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
The Paper Records You Need And Those You Can Do Without
Apr 2010
As a business owner, there are certain documents that you just have to have. From tax returns dating back seven years to client records stretching back to the beginning of your business, you can...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
The Working Capital Trap
Jun 2010
Every company wants to grow. Growth is a sign of vitality and is or should be a source of profit. Perhaps, profitable growth is a better way to describe what everyone aspires to achieve. If that...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
Recession-Fighting Serendipity: Well-Timed Government Spending Can Blunt Economic Contractions
Jul 2010
Japan's economy has been stuck in what economists call the "Zero bound" since 1996. The zero bound is a danger zone where an economy's short-term nominal interest rate is at or near zero percent....
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
-
White Papers
New 1099 Filing Requirements For 2011: Truth Serum Or More Red Tape?
Jul 2010
1099 forms fall under the category of "information returns". Businesses must file information returns to report certain transactions. There are over 120 different transactions that require the...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
3 Questions You Must Ask Before Investing In New Equipment
Jun 2010
Evaluating the purchase of new equipment can be a complicated process. There are many stakeholders to consider, vendors are aggressively bombarding you with information and you have limited time...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
The High Cost Of Employee Turnover
Apr 2010
It's impossible to be all things to all people. No matter how great your company is, it's likely that some of your employees will eventually move on to other opportunities. That may be costing you...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
Accounts Receivable: An Unlikely Source Of Cash
Mar 2010
Your accounts receivable are obviously worth money: just as soon as a client or customer gets around to paying his invoice, you'll have money in your hands. But in the meanwhile, those invoices...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
Should You Buy A Stock When It's Down?
Mar 2010
Conventional wisdom says that you make money when you buy, not when you sell. Think about it: Most of the time, you're better off buying the cheapest house in the priciest neighborhood and waiting...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
What Every Business Owner Should Know About Collateral
Mar 2010
Given the way banks are getting the hairy eyeball from the Feds these days, if you want a loan you can be sure you'll have to pledge something as collateral - your signature won't be good enough....
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
4 Secrets Of Meaningful Projections
Mar 2010
Most business owners feel one of two ways about projections. Either they feel projections are worthless because they cannot predict the future, or they feel projections are a mechanism to make...
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The Three Budgets
Mar 2010
We're all optimistic about the future of our business. Without that optimism, we wouldn't be able to push through the challenges of small business ownership. Our dream of a sunny future and our...
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Read Your Financial Statements Like A Banker
Mar 2010
Let's face it - financial statements aren't the most fascinating things to read. Unless, that is, you're a banker. Your balance sheet and income statement tell a banker more about your business...
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Downsizing The Balance Sheet: The Old Orthodoxy?
Jan 2010
Pressure on margins has seen companies strive for asset-light balance sheets. Recession provides a stern test for this strategy: some companies found that it was survival of the fattest, not...
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Hurricane On Wall Street: Managing Large-Scale Financial Crises
Sep 2008
Zvi Bodie, the Norman and Adele Barron Professor of Finance and Economics, Boston University School of Management, proposes solutions to the financial sector for managing crisis. He explains why...
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Olesya Shubov, Student In Math Finance, Discusses Stochastic Calculus
Jul 2009
Olesya Shubov discusses her favorite class in the Mathematical Finance Program, Stochastic Calculus, because it combines theoretical knowledge and the computational skills needed to program...
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Mark Williams, On Bloomberg Asia, Talks "Worst-Case Scenarios" Of Subprime Crisis Fallout
Mar 2008
Bloomberg Asia interviews Mark Williams, Boston University School of Management executive-in-residence in finance and economics, and MBA Program alumnus (GSM '93). On the heels of a week of...
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Fixing The Financial System
Jan 2010
Julian Franks, Professor of Finance at London Business School, discusses why we cannot wait to fix the financial system, despite not fully understanding the origins of the crisis.
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The Hoare Govett Small Companies Index Report, Published By RBS
Jan 2010
Mid and small-cap companies had their best share price performance since 1977, according to new research by Professors Dimson and Marsh.
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MBA TV Episode 10
Jan 2010
In this webcast, the presenters speak to Diane Morgan, Director of Career Services, and ask her about the School's approach to meeting the challenges presented by the current global economic...
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Three Great American Disinflations
Jun 2007
This paper analyzes the role of transparency and credibility in accounting for the widely divergent macroeconomic effects of three episodes of deliberate monetary contraction: the post-Civil War...
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Exchange Rate Pass-Through To Export Prices: Assessing Some Cross-Country Evidence
Sep 2007
A growing body of empirical work has found evidence of a decline in exchange rate pass-through to import prices in a number of industrial countries. This paper complements this work by examining...
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Quantitative Implications Of Indexed Bonds In Small Open Economies
Oct 2007
This paper analyzes the macroeconomic implications of real-indexed bonds, indexed to the terms of trade or GDP, using a general equilibrium model of a small open economy with financial frictions....
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Bank Core Deposits And The Mitigation Of Monetary Policy
Jan 2008
This paper considers the business strategy of some banks that provide relationship loans (where they have loan origination and monitoring advantages relative to capital markets) with core deposit...
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