Modernist fiction, cosmopolitanism and the politics of community / / Jessica Berman [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450529303321
• Autore: Berman Jessica Schiff <1961->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001
• ISBN: 1-107-12387-9; 1-280-16085-3; 1-139-14732-3; 0-511-11968-2; 0-511-06374-1; 0-511-05741-5; 0-511-30347-5; 0-511-48500-X; 0-511-07220-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 242 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 813/.5209112
• Soggetti: American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) - United States; Politics and literature - History - 20th century; Literature and society - History - 20th century; Community life in literature; Cosmopolitanism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-234) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Cosmopolitan Communities -- ; 2. Henry James. "The History of the Voice": Cosmpolitan's America. Feminizing the nation: woman as cultural icon in late James -- ; 3. Marcel Proust. Proust, Bernard Lazare, and the politics of pariahdom. The community, the prophet, and the pariah: relation in A la recherche du temps perdu -- ; 4. Virginia Woolf. "Splinter" and "mosaic": towards the politics of connection. Of oceans and opposition: the action of The Waves -- ; 5. Gertrude Stein. Steinian topographies: the making of America. Writing the "I" that is "they": Gertrude Stein's community of the subject -- ; 6. Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community, first published in 2001, Jessica Berman argues that the fiction of Henry James, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein engages directly with early twentieth-century transformations of community and cosmopolitanism. Although these modernist writers develop radically different models for social organization, their writings return again and again to issues of commonality, shared voice, and exchange of experience, particularly in relation to dominant discourses of gender and nationality. The writings of James, Proust, Woolf and Stein, she argues, not only inscribe early twentieth-century anxieties about race, ethnicity, nationality and gender, but confront them with demands for modern, cosmopolitan versions of community. This study seeks to revise theories of community and cosmopolitanism in light of their construction in narrative, and in particular it seeks to reveal the ways that modernist fiction can provide meaningful alternative models of community.

Credit Growth and the Effectiveness of Reserve Requirements and Other Macroprudential Instruments in Latin America

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910963612103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012
• ISBN: 9781475553642; 1475553641; 9781475581850; 1475581858
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (30 p.)
• Collana: IMF Working Papers
• Disciplina: 332.1/52
• Soggetti: Credit control - Latin America; Banking law - Latin America; Bank credit; Banking; Banks and Banking; Banks and banking; Banks; Central bank policy rate; Central Banks and Their Policies; Credit; Depository Institutions; Economic policy; Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation; Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy; Financial sector policy and analysis; Financial services; Interest rates; Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects; Macroeconomics; Macroprudential policy instruments; Micro Finance Institutions; Monetary economics; Monetary Policy; Monetary policy; Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General; Money and Monetary Policy; Money; Mortgages; Reserve requirements; Peru
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; I. Introduction; Table; 1. Recent Macroprudential Measures; II. Reserve Requirements as a Macroprudential Tool; Figures; 1. Reserve Requirements on Banks Liabilities; III. Literature Review; A. Some Theoretical Considerations; 2. Effects of Reserve Requirements when Financial Intermediation Involves a Competitive Loan Market and Market Power in the Deposit Market; 3. Effects of Reserve Requirements when Financial Intermediation Involves a Competitive Deposit Market and Market Power in the Loan Market; B. The Recent Latin American Experience; 4. Credit Dynamics and Interest Rates5. Reserve Requirements in Brazil; 6. Reserve Requirements in Colombia; C. Recent Empirical Literature on the Latin America Experience; 7. Reserve Requirements in Peru; IV. Empirical Analysis; 8 Latin America: Average and Marginal Reserve Requirements; A. Event Analysis; 9. Impact of RRs and other Macroprudential Measures on Private Credit Growth; B. Dynamic Panel Vector Autoregression; 10. Impulse Response of Private Credit Growth to Macroprudential Policy Shocks; 11. Complementary Role of Macroprudential Policies and Reserve Requirements; V. Conclusions; References
• Sommario/riassunto: Over the past decade policy makers in Latin America have adopted a number of macroprudential instruments to manage the procyclicality of bank credit dynamics to the private sector and contain systemic risk. Reserve requirements, in particular, have been actively employed. Despite their widespread use, little is known about their effectiveness and how they interact with monetary policy. In this paper, we examine the role of reserve requirements and other macroprudential ; instruments and report new cross-country evidence on how they influence real private bank credit growth. Our results show that these instruments have a moderate and transitory effect and play a complementary role to monetary policy.