Critics have excoriated the US fast-food industry in general, and McDonald's most particularly, both per...

Foreign banks have entered many transition and emerging economies in recent years, sometimes before economic...

We apply the analogy from biology of ecological succession that follows natural disasters as a...

Foreign banks have been operating in the Pacific Islands since the late 19th century. Today,...

Japanese banks had subsidiaries in California from 1910 to 1941. The Japanese banks started to...

HSBC has built up a major retail banking presence in Canada, the US, and Mexico....

In 2000 ten foreign banks owned the 12 largest US subsidiaries of foreign banks, which...

We update an earlier article on the determinants of interpenetration of financial centers by banks....

In 1977 the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) was enacted to penalize US firms and...

We assess the viability of a bank's entering into retail banking worldwide, wherever regulations permit,...

Adrian Tschoegl suggests that proper science is often neither deduction nor induction, but abduction.

This paper argues that decimalization of currency diffused as a consequence of all three forms...

The book assaults common sense with evidence. In order to mount his assault on accepted...

We have found that deriving the business implications of abstract concepts such as Purchasing Power...

Government agencies that procure goods from abroad typically face various risks, particularly uncertainty over future...

Deposit accounts that provide an interest return determined by a lottery have proved to be...

Critics have excoriated the US fast-food industry in general, and McDonald's most particularly, both per...

Why are there such severe problems in lending in the transition countries? We conducted interviews...

Despite the political saliency of employment, the growing scholarly literature on financial centers contains only...

Foreign banks have entered many transition and emerging economies in recent years, sometimes before economic...

We apply the analogy from biology of ecological succession that follows natural disasters as a...

Foreign banks have been operating in the Pacific Islands since the late 19th century. Today,...

The financial integration that concerns us is that of the linking of national banking systems...

Japanese banks had subsidiaries in California from 1910 to 1941. The Japanese banks started to...

HSBC has built up a major retail banking presence in Canada, the US, and Mexico....

In 2000 ten foreign banks owned the 12 largest US subsidiaries of foreign banks, which...

We update two earlier articles on the determinants of interpenetration of financial centers by banks....

Deposit accounts that provide an interest return determined by a lottery have proved to be...

After a long history of closure to foreign banks, Norway opened in 1985. The foreign...

Nine foreign banks own the ten largest US affiliates or subsidiaries of foreign banks. These...

The note examines the history of foreign banks in Saudi Arabia to shed light on...

Singapore’s banks have offices throughout the Asia-Pacific area, in London and North America as well,...

The opening to foreign banks in the Nordic countries provides us with an opportunity to...

This essay reviews much of the recent literature on international financial centers from both economics...

We discuss the expansion of Norwegian banks abroad in the post-World War II era. The...

Since 1995 two Spanish banks—Banco Santander Central Hispano and Banco Bilbao Vizcaya—have become the largest...

Despite the scholarly interest in joint ventures and strategic alliances, the consortium bank movement represents...

We update an earlier article on the determinants of interpenetration of financial centers by banks....

Despite the political saliency of employment, the growing scholarly literature on financial centers contains only...

We assess the viability of a bank's entering into retail banking worldwide, wherever regulations permit,...

This paper argues that decimalization of currency diffused as a consequence of all three forms...

This paper follows the changes in the images in Bulgaria’s notes from the first issue...

Despite its significance in monetary history, the Maria Theresa thaler (or taler) is little known...

The system of denominations of US coins, which the paper treats as a quasi-genetic trait...

Most theories of demand assume that consumers value the characteristics of products but are unconcerned...

Telser (1995) and Sumner (1993) argue that the optimal system of denominations of currency would...

We update two earlier articles on the determinants of interpenetration of financial centers by banks....

This essay reviews much of the recent literature on international financial centers from both economics...

We update an earlier article on the determinants of interpenetration of financial centers by banks....

Despite the political saliency of employment, the growing scholarly literature on financial centers contains only...

The Barings, Daiwa Bank and Sumitomo Corp. financial debacles in the mid-1990s suggest that management...

In this paper we test monthly mean daily returns to gold over the period January...

On April 2, 1981, the European Option Exchange introduced the first organized exchange trading of...

The article conjectures that stop orders are automatic control limits that enable investors to react...

In this paper we test monthly mean daily returns to gold over the period January...