1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910808518503321

Autore

Hilberg Björn

Titolo

Essays on banking and financial markets / / Björn Hilberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : Logos Verlag, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

3-8325-9641-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (122 pages)

Disciplina

332.17

Soggetti

Banks and banking - Securities processing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

PublicationDate: 20130311

Sommario/riassunto

Long description: This dissertation contributes to the theoretical and to the empirical literature on the relationship of banks and financial markets. The first two chapters consist of two theoretical studies which use different approaches to model the interaction of banks in the interbank market where liquidity is traded among banks in bilateral transactions. In the third chapter an empirical study assesses the degree of market discipline in the bank bond market which is an important source of debt-financing for banks.  In the first chapter a heterogeneous banking sector is incorporated into a dynamic, stochastic, general equilibrium framework with financial frictions to analyze the effects of a central bank's collateral policy on interbank lending volumes.  In the second chapter a partial equilibrium model of a bank's lending decision in the interbank market is developed. If lenders are assumed to possess only imperfect information about individual borrower characteristics there exists a relationship between the uncertainty about counterparty risk and the level of interbank lending activity.  In the third chapter a panel data set of bank bond spreads and bank-specific risk factors is constructed and a structural break analysis is employed to assess the sensitivity of a bank's funding costs in the bond market to changes in its balance sheet risk.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961770103321

Autore

Lawrence Paul R. <1956->

Titolo

Paths to making a difference : leading in government / / by Paul R. Lawrence, Mark A. Abramson ; contributors, Marc Andersen … [and 6 others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., , 2013

ISBN

9781442223882

144222388X

Edizione

[Revised edition]

Descrizione fisica

v, 262 p. : ill., ports

Disciplina

352.23/60973

Soggetti

Government executives - United States

Political leadership - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

PATHS TO MAKING A DIFFERENCE -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: The Job of the Political Executive -- Chapter One: The Selection and Preparation of Political Executives -- Chapter Two: The Role of the Political Executive as Builder -- Chapter Three: The Role of the Political Executive as Manager -- Chapter Four: The Role of the Political Executive as Innovator -- Part Two: Profiles in Political Leadership -- Chapter Five: The Deputy Secretaries -- Understanding the Job of the Deputy Secretary -- Rafael Borras, Under Secretary for Management, Department of Homeland Security -- William V. Corr, Deputy Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services -- W. Scott Gould, Deputy Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs -- Seth D. Harris, Deputy Secretary, Department of Labor -- David J. Hayes, Deputy Secretary, Department of the Interior -- Dennis F. Hightower, Deputy Secretary, Department of Commerce -- Kathleen A. Merrigan, Deputy Secretary, Department of Agriculture -- Anthony W. Miller, Deputy Secretary, Department of Education -- Thomas R. Nides, Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources, Department of State -- Daniel B. Poneman, Deputy Secretary, Department of Energy -- Chapter Six: The Producers -- Understanding the Job of the Producer -- Allison A. Hickey, Under Secretary for Benefits, Department of Veterans Affairs -- David J. Kappos, Under Secretary of Commerce for



Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce -- John S. Pistole, Administrator, Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security -- David H. Stevens, Assistant Secretary for Housing and Commissioner, Federal Housing Administration, Department of Housing and Urban Development -- William J. Taggart, Chief Operating Officer, Office of Federal Student Aid, Department of Education.

Chapter Seven: The Infrastructors -- Understanding the Job of the Infrastructor -- Jonathan S. Adelstein, Administrator, Rural Utilities Service, Department of Agriculture -- Arun Majumdar, Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, Department of Energy -- Victor M. Mendez, Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation -- Joseph C. Szabo, Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration, Department of Transportation -- Chapter Eight: The Regulators -- Understanding the Job of the Regulator -- Michael R. Bromwich, Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, Department of the Interior -- Joseph A. Main, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health, Department of Labor -- David L. Strickland, Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of Transportation -- Inez Moore Tenenbaum, Chairman, Consumer Product Safety Commission -- Chapter Nine: The Scientists -- Understanding the Job of the Scientist -- Rebecca M. Blank, Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, Economics and Statistics Administration, Department of Commerce -- Patrick D. Gallagher, Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology and Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology, Department of Commerce -- Marcia K. McNutt, Director, U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior -- Richard G. Newell, Administrator, U.S. Energy Information Administration, Department of Energy -- Kathryn D. Sullivan, Deputy Administrator and Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Environmental Observation and Prediction, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce -- Chapter Ten: The Collaborators -- Understanding the Job of the Collaborator -- Daniel M. Ashe, Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior.

John Berry, Director, Office of Personnel Management -- David A. Hinson, National Director, Minority Business Development Agency, Department of Commerce -- Raymond M. Jefferson, Assistant Secretary for Veterans' Employment and Training Service, Department of Labor -- Appendix: Dates of Interviews -- Index of Profiles by Organization -- References -- About the Authors and Contributors.

Sommario/riassunto

To understand the challenges of political leadership and how top executives succeed in accomplishing an administration's objectives, business in government experts Paul R.Lawrence and Mark A.