Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-07T14:27:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Arquivototal.pdf: 945472 bytes, checksum: dee3c0d39768d553f14163e1ec319dcd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-06-18 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This dissertation focuses on the need for effective financial regulation as a way of implementing microcredit policies, able to be an important ally in the struggle against poverty and consequent realization of national development project planned by the current constitutional text. It aims to perform a delimitation of this kind of credit, pointing out the situations it can be applied, the benefits for the country, the economic impact and realization of human dignity. For its consummation, the method of deductive approach was used, methods of historical procedure, comparative, interpretive and analytical techniques as well as bibliographical and documentary research. Fulfilling all the objectives established, describes the regulation of markets and, in particular, the financial system, pointing out the reasons of a effective regulation. Makes the relationship between financial regulation and national development, emphasizing the need to reach social purposes by the institutions that compose this system, and microcredit been a prominence politics. Certifies the conclusion that the incentive to microcredit as social policy is essential and must not only be implemented by the public sector, acquiring aspects of public policy, but also by the private sector, requiring, in consequence a kind of inductive regulation, so that national development can be reach the greatest extent possible. / A presente dissertação versa sobre a necessidade de eficaz regulação financeira como forma de implementação de políticas de microcrédito, capaz de ser importante aliado no combate à pobreza e consequente efetivação do projeto de desenvolvimento nacional programado pelo texto constitucional vigente. Tem por objetivo realizar uma delimitação dessa espécie de crédito, apontar as situações nas quais incide, o benefício que representa para o país e a sua repercussão na área econômica e na concretização da dignidade da pessoa humana. Para sua consumação, foi utilizado o método de abordagem dedutivo, os métodos de procedimento histórico, comparativo, interpretativo e analítico, bem como as técnicas de pesquisa bibliográfica e documental. Cumprindo todos os objetivos estabelecidos, descreve a regulação dos mercados e, em especial, a do sistema financeiro, apontando as justificativas para que essa regulação seja implementada da forma mais efetiva possível. Procede à relação entre regulação financeira e desenvolvimento nacional, destacando a necessidade de consecução de fins sociais pelas instituições que compõem esse sistema, sendo o microcrédito a política social de destaque. Firma a conclusão de que o incentivo ao microcrédito como política social é fundamental, não devendo ser somente implementado pelo setor público, ganhando aí aspectos de política pública, mas também pelo setor privado, necessitando-se assim um espécie de regulação indutiva, de forma que o desenvolvimento nacional possa ser alcançado em sua maior medida possível.

In recent times some economists and politicians in the context of financial crisis dusted off again the idea of introducing the so-called Tobin tax, or financial transaction tax (FTT), respectively. This thesis briefly reviews the existing literature on FTT. Two case studies of Sweden and Great Britain show in some respects two different experiences with FTT. The theses analyzes in detail the economic implications of the European Commission proposed FTT from the perspective of economic theory and economic policy. Partial conclusions of the thesis reveal some drawbacks and pitfalls of FTT. While the benefits of FTT remain rather controversial. The theses therefore concludes that FTT is not due to the severity of its impacts appropriate economic measure.

Le football européen en général et le football français en particulier font état de difficultés financières et de faillites récurrentes de clubs professionnels. Sur la seule période de 1975 à 2018, 81 clubs français de football engagés dans les championnats des quatre premières divisions ont connu une faillite. Le sujet de la faillite d’entreprises a été largement traité pour les secteurs courants de l’économie. De nombreuses recherches se sont attachées à construire des modèles de prédiction, puis progressivement d’autres travaux se sont concentrés sur le processus et les différentes trajectoires d’entrée dans la faillite.Les seuls travaux menés sur le football français ont appliqué le modèle de prédiction d’Altman (2000) sur les clubs de Ligue 1 et de Ligue 2 et ont cherché à identifier les facteurs de la défaillance. Un accès privilégié aux données financières et aux parties prenantes du football français nous a permis de construire un nouveau modèle de prédiction de faillite adapté aux spécificités du football que nous avons ensuite complété par uneanalyse qualitative proposant une hiérarchisation des facteurs explicatifs et leur enchaînement au sein d’un processus dynamique. Notre thèse conclue à l’impossibilité de généraliser un modèle de prédiction des faillites à l’ensemble des clubs des quatre premières divisions françaises. Néanmoins, les améliorations apportées par notre propre modèle permettent de meilleurs taux de classement entre les clubs défaillants et les clubs sains des trois premières divisions. Nous montrons également qu’au-delà d’un score ponctuel obtenu dans le modèle, son évolution dans le temps est un signal important pour identifier et anticiper la dégradation de la situation financière de chaque club. Les clubs ne passent pas d’un état de bonne santé à leur faillite de manière soudaine. Des entretiens menés avec des dirigeants, des actionnaires, des directeurs financiers et des membres de la Direction Nationale du Contrôle de Gestion nous ont permis de modéliser la dynamique globale d’entrée dans la faillite des clubs. Sur ces bases, nous proposons une nouvelle approche de la régulation financière pour mieux prévenir la faillite des clubs de football. / French football and European football in general regularly report of financial difficulties and even bankruptcies of professional clubs. Between 1975 and 2018, 81 clubs of the four premier French divisions went bankrupt. The issue of bankruptcy in business has been widely studied in the main sectors of the economy. Various studies have endeavoured to build prediction models and subsequently, other work has investigated the process and different ways of going bankrupt.The only work which investigated French football applied Altman’s prediction model (2000) to Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 clubs and aimed to identify the factors which lead to bankruptcy. Privileged access to financial information concerning these clubs and to people who have important roles in this domain allowed us tocreate a new model to predict bankruptcy which is adapted to the particularities of professional football. We then completed our study with qualitative analysis of the data and a proposal of a hierarchy of the explicative factors and their sequencing in what is a dynamic process. Our thesis concludes by stating that it is impossible to generalise a bankruptcy prediction model for all theclubs in each of the top four French divisions. Nevertheless, the improvements brought forward by our model allows for a more accurate division of the financially healthy and unhealthy clubs in the first three divisions. Equally, we show that beyond the initial score a club achieves with our model, the evolution of this score over time in an important indicator to help clubs anticipate a worsening financial situation; clubs do not suddenly go from a state of financial solvency to one of bankruptcy. Interviews undertaken with the executives, stakeholders and financial directors of clubs as well as those carried out with members of the Direction Nationale du Contrôle de Gestion (DNCG) allowed us to model the global dynamic for clubs who go bankrupt. From there, we propose a new approach to financial regulation to avoid more football clubs going bankrupt.

The financial crisis starting in mid-2007 is still affecting us, and with increased regulation banks and institutions are supposed to get more solvent and the industry to become more stable. The Basel Committee is working towards more unified regulation across countries, but the question is how the increased regulation is affecting banks financials. Do profitable banks with a solid capital base have a higher ratio of capital buffer? Looking at banks in 16 OECD countries during the period 1993-2009, with country-level panel-data displayed in two simultaneous equation estimations illustrating how profit and capital buffer has changed during these years, and the relation between them. To get an understanding of how the crisis affected these variables the regressions are also done for a pre-crisis period of 1993-2006. Internal funding variables and other economic control variables are explanatory variables and results show the internal funding variables have a large effect on profit and for capital buffer profit have the largest impact. Results imply that profitable banks with a solid capital base do have a higher ratio of capital buffer. The results coincide with the franchise value theory which is applied in the paper.

L'objectif de cette thèse, composée de quatre articles empiriques et théoriques, est d'étudier l'implication des banques centrales dans la stabilité financière - définie comme un état stable et élevé de confiance dans la capacité du système financier à faciliter l'allocation des ressources économiques, gérer les risques, et à résister aux chocs - et de discuter de leurs nouvelles responsabilités macroprudentielles. La crise financière mondiale a fait évoluer la régulation et la supervision financières d'une perspective microprudentielle basée sur la résilience des institutions prises individuellement à une perspective macroprudentielle qui prend en compte les interactions entre les institutions financières, les externalités liées à leurs décisions, et aussi les effets du cycle financier sur le cycle économique et sur la stabilité financière. Cette thèse analyse le policy-mix des politiques monétaire - ciblant le cycle économique –et macroprudentielle -ciblant le cycle financier -ayant toutes les deux un impact sur la stabilité des prix et les conditions financières. En effet, ces politiques fonctionnent grâce à des canaux de transmission dont certains sont communs. Une attention particulière est accordée, au-delà la politique macroprudentielle dans union monétaire hétérogène comme la zone euro - où les pays connaissent des conditions macroéconomiques différenciées - en termes de stabilisation financière et macroéconomique. Partant du constat qu'un taux d'intérêt unique est adapté à la moyenne de la zone mais pas aux besoins de chacun des pays, la politique macroprudentielle pourrait compenser l'absence de politique monétaire autonome dans chaque pays. Cela améliorerait le degré d'optimalité de la zone monétaire. / The aim of this thesis, composed of four academic papers, is to apply empirical and theoreticalanalyses to study the involvement of central banks in financial stability-confidence in the financial system's ability to facilitate allocation of economic resources, manage risks, and withstand shocks -and to discuss their recent macroprudential responsibilities. The global financial crisis (GFC) shitied the perspective of financial regulation - rules that financial institutions have to comply with in order to ensure effective risk management and to with stand financial shocks - and supervision - ensuring that financial institutions follow these rules - from a microprudential perspective based on the resilience of individual institutions to amacroprudential (henceforth · "MaP") perspective. The MaP perspective takes into account the interactions of financial institutions, the externalities related to their decisions, and also the effects of the financial cycle on central bank policy and financial stability. This thesis analyses the policy mix of monctary and macroprudential policies which both have an impact on price stability and financial conditions and which operate through common or overlapping channels. A particular focus is given to the role of MaP policy in heterogeneous monetary union such as the Eurozone- where countries are experience in different macroeconomic conditions - in terms of financial and macroeconomic stabilisation. Since a single interest rate is unlikely to fit circumstances in all countries, MaP policy could compensate the Jack of autonomous monetary policy in each country as both policies share many transmission channels. This enhances the optimality's degree of the currency area.

Thesis advisor: Philip E. Strahan / My dissertation consists of two chapters. In the first chapter, I show that the growing trend in financial services digitalization has introduced a new dimension along which commercial banks compete, with consequences for the local economy. Small community banks (SCBs) are slow to implement mobile technologies and lose deposits to larger, better-digitalized banks following mobile infrastructure improvements. This dynamic negatively affects their small business lending, for they have historically relied on information and liquidity synergies with deposits to maintain their competitive advantage in such markets. Larger banks and FinTech firms prove to be imperfect substitutes in this setting, and the local economy benefits less from digitalization in areas where SCBs had an important presence before its advent. The second chapter, co-authored with Prof. Rawley Heimer, focuses on the outcomes of consumers' efforts to achieve restitution for disputed financial services. We find that complaints filed with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from low-income and Black zip codes are 30% less likely to be resolved with the consumer receiving financial restitution. The gap in financial restitution was scarcely present under the Obama administration, but grew substantially under the Trump administration. We attribute the change in financial restitution under different political regimes to companies anticipating a more industry-friendly CFPB, as well as to the more industry-friendly leadership of the CFPB achieving less financial restitution for low-income and Black filers. The financial restitution gap cannot be explained by differences in product usage nor the quality of complaints, which we measure using textual analysis. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2023. / Submitted to: Boston College. Carroll School of Management. / Discipline: Finance.

In the first essay we study whether and how personal off-the-job managerial indiscretions impact corporate insiders’ trading behavior. We find that executives accused of personal indiscretions earn significantly higher abnormal returns from their insider purchases and sales in a 15-day window around each trade. The results are robust to matched sample analyses. Further, insiders’ historical trading pattern or corporate culture has less explanatory power than personal attributes. We also document that exposure of these indiscretions to the public provides a disciplinary effect, as insider trading profits significantly drop following the announcement of an indiscretion, despite this drop being temporary. Corporate governance mechanisms, such as blackout policies, significantly reduce abnormal returns earned by indiscretion executives. In the second essay we find that individualistic countries regulate insider trading activities more intensely. The result is robust to controlling for alternative culture variables, additional controls, and instrumental variable analysis. We also document that individualism’s effect is magnified in democratic countries. In addition, we study the economic and financial consequences of individualism, insider trading regulation, and its enforcement. The analysis suggests that individualism and the enforcement of insider trading regulation promote financial development. Interaction effects reveal that individualism and insider trading regulation serve as complements to promote financial development. These findings contribute to the insider trading debate since regulation alone may not be the primary determinant of market efficiency. Combined, our results challenge prior works concluding that individualism is anti-regulation. In the last essay we explore the relation between insider trading regulation and the cost of equity in a country. Bhattacharya and Daouk (2002) conduct a comprehensive survey of 103 countries on whether insider trading law exists and has been enforced. They find that the enforcement of insider trading law, not the existence, can significantly reduce the cost of equity in a country. In this paper, we use an updated sample to reevaluate this topic and answer whether this relation still holds after adding 20 years of new data. Preliminary results show that countries with lighter insider trading regulation and countries that have enforced insider trading laws tend to experience lower cost of equity.

Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012. / Asset restrictions are prudential regulations applied by regulators around the globe. In essence, they prescribe asset restrictions as a risk-control measure to establish appropriate capital requirements for regulated institutions. The aim of prudential regulations and standards is to protect consumers who acquire the products and services offered by these institutions. Pension funds in Namibia must comply with Regulation 28 of the Pension Funds Act, 1956. Regulation 28 is the prudential regulation that governs investment limits for pension funds. The regulation prescribes maximum investment limits for all asset classes. In 2009, the government made a policy decision to amend Regulation 28 to prescribe a minimum investment in unlisted shares (private equity) that would be applicable to pension funds, long-term insurance companies and unit trusts. The objective of government is to use Regulation 28 as a macroeconomic tool to control capital flows and channel capital to domestic companies. The regulation will stimulate economic activities, local ownership, create employment and reduce poverty, which will eventually facilitate economic development. In addition, this objective has the potential to assist the development of the private equity sector in Namibia. The implication of this development is that retirement savings will be utilised to achieve macroeconomic objectives and develop an industry sector. Private equity has shown tremendous growth in developed economies and is beginning to grow in Africa as well. Private equity is a sector that has the potential to realise excellent returns for pension funds, provided the risks are adequately controlled and managed. The study proposes a regulatory framework for unlisted investments (private equity) by pension funds. The framework considers risks and proposes how to best manage and control them. The conclusion is to abolish a prescribed minimum and to increase the domestic asset requirement. Ultimately, regulators exist to protect consumers while the development of markets is a secondary priority.

Football clubs have multiple stakeholders sometimes with different and conflicting objectives. If a club concentrates solely on achieving sporting success at the expense of its financial objectives, it risks jeopardizing its long-term stability, which may affect the sporting integrity of the league as a whole. The behaviour of one club potentially has externality implications for other stakeholders which cannot always be internalised. There is therefore the need for regulation of the pre-emptive type to avert such negative consequences for clubs. FIFA has requested all member associations to implement club licensing to improve upon professionalism in management and to ensure long-term stability of club football. This thesis picks up on this theme to review the financial regulatory system in Ghana, obtain lessons from other jurisdictions and develop an incentive-based context-specific Football Financial Clearinghouse framework that is applicable in Ghana. The thesis employs a mixed-method research approach to evaluate the financial disclosure, position and performance of professional football clubs in Ghana, utilising critical reviews, interviews, focus group discussions and questionnaires to answer specific research questions. The empirical analysis in this thesis shows that financial licensing and monitoring needs to be complemented by the provision of incentives and support services to clubs to achieve optimal regulatory compliance. The key incentive in the specific case of Ghana is to ensure regulated access to credit. This thesis makes four significant contributions to knowledge by showing that: Ghanaian football clubs are in a difficult financial situation; there is an appetite for change amongst Ghanaian football’s stakeholders for a new financial regulatory framework; the existing financial regulatory frameworks, especially in Europe, are not applicable in the Ghanaian context as they were made for a different jurisdiction; and that the FFC framework would be an appropriate context-specific framework to deal with the financial regulation of Ghanaian football clubs.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-03-29T12:28:05Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Matheus da Silva Fernandes.pdf: 1299404 bytes, checksum: d38378c3fd8f33e67220bf393b10b11e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-29T12:28:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Matheus da Silva Fernandes.pdf: 1299404 bytes, checksum: d38378c3fd8f33e67220bf393b10b11e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-22 / The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze and propose changes in financial regulation from a Marxist-Keynesian point of view. This study is justified by the lack of social meaning in the functioning of the financial system. From the 1960s, fictitious capital began to take the productive economy more and more. Tax havens serve the wealthiest individuals and large corporations by allowing them to evade rules and taxes they would otherwise be compelled to meet. The financial crisis of 2008 let the dimension of those capitals be clear, which started to withdraw banking and financial regulation and supervision, allowing them to create new financial investments that turned non-bank institutions equivalent to bank institutions. To that end, these shadow banks were financed with customer deposits and invested in securities such as CDOs from subprime mortgages. When mortgage borrowers began to default, the entire system succumbed and carried with them the whole US economy, a priori, and the world economy after. Brazil, however, is involved in another way, by practicing the highest real rates of interest in the world. This fact allows the financial intermediaries to puncture a significant proportion of the productive wealth of families and companies, channeling it to the financial system. High rates of interest also affect the public sector by compromising the government budget with financial expenses instead of expending in public education, healthcare and infrastructure, for example. It is upon governments to restate the order of the financial sector, by enforcing laws that keep the financial system under strict supervision, and extend its scope to newly created innovations. The rates on capital gains and on fortunes should be instituted and raised and the usury crime regulated, establishing a ceiling for real rates of interest in Brazil / A presente dissertação tem objetivo de analisar e propor mudanças na regulação financeira sob a ótica marxista-keynesiana, e seu estudo se justifica pela falta do sentido social no funcionamento do sistema financeiro. A partir da década de 1960, o capital fictício passou a se apropriar cada vez mais da economia produtiva. Os paraísos fiscais servem aos indivíduos mais ricos e às grandes corporações ao permiti-los evadir de regras e tributações que, caso contrário, estariam compelidos a cumprir. A crise financeira de 2008 deixou clara a dimensão desses capitais, que passaram a operar arredios da regulação e supervisão financeira e bancária, os permitindo criar novas aplicações financeiras que tornavam instituições não-bancárias equivalentes às instituições bancárias. Para tanto, estes shadow banks se financiavam com depósitos dos clientes e aplicavam em títulos como os CDOs de hipotecas subprime. Quando os mutuários destas hipotecas começaram a calotear, todo o sistema derivado deles sucumbiu e levou consigo toda a economia dos EUA a priori, e mundial em seguida. O Brasil, contudo, se insere na finança mundial de outra forma, pela cobrança das maiores taxas de juros reais do mundo. Esse fato permite aos intermediários financeiros punçar uma relevante proporção da riqueza produtiva das famílias e das empresas, a canalizando para o sistema financeiro. Elevadas taxas de juros também afetam o setor público ao comprometer o orçamento do governo com gastos financeiros à revelia das despesas em educação, saúde e infraestrutura públicas, por exemplo. Cabe aos governos retomar a ordem do setor financeiro, pela aplicação de leis que mantenham o sistema financeiro sobre estrita supervisão, além de ampliar sua abrangência para as inovações criadas recentemente. Devem ser instituídas e elevadas as alíquotas sobre os ganhos de capital e sobre grandes fortunas e regulamentado o crime de usura, estabelecendo um teto para as taxas de juros reais no Brasil