Abuse or Slavery? A Look at Practices of Debt Peonage from the 19th-Century Philippines by Carolina Hiribarren Cardoen

“…Debt peonage involved a large part of colonial society and could result in a variety of situations, ranging from the imposition of excessive interest rates to what some scholars have considered slavery-like conditions. …”
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Fighting Inflation Through Lowering of Monopoly Rents by Franz Nauschnigg

“…Fighting supply driven inflation through higher interest rates is not very efficient; it would be better to lower inflation by lowering the monopoly rents of companies like Gazprom. …”
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Valuing Convertible Bonds Based on LSRQM Method by Jian Liu, Lizhao Yan, Chaoqun Ma

“…We consider the financial market with stochastic interest rates and credit risk and present a detailed description on calculating steps of convertible bonds value. …”
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Inflation Risk? by Paul De Grauwe

“…It argues that in the future, when interest rates rise again, the ECB risks transferring all (and even more) of its profits to the banking system. …”
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Tax Subsidy for Long-term Care Insurance by Thomas Neusius

“…In the public branch, financing was partially insufficient and the pay-as-you-go scheme is hit by demographic ageing; the private branch, relying on live insurance like premium calculation, saw severe premium adjustments amplified by the low level of interest rates. To protect employees who are covered in most cases by public insurance, tax subsidies from a contribution hike are to be introduced in favour of the public insurance scheme. …”
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ECB Monetary Policy in a Quandary by Kerstin Bernoth, Marcel Fratzscher

“…Abstract It seems clear that the ECB will raise interest rates in July 2022 and end its asset purchase program. …”
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FEATURES OF INTEREST-BEARING MONETARY POLICY INSTRUMENTS OF THE CZECH NATIONAL BANK by A. V. Berdyshev, N. S. Bobyr

“…The main goal of the paper is to assess the impact of interest rates used by the Czech National Bank in the process of monetary regulation on the dynamics of the main macroeconomic indicators, which is considered as one of the necessary conditions for the effectiveness of the inflation targeting regime. …”
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Real Returns of Private Households with Different Financial Assets — A Comparison of Germany and Austria by Michael Andreasch, Marc Peter Radke, Manuel Rupprecht

“…Abstract The paper discusses the real returns of German and Austrian households of different financial wealth groups in times of ultra-low interest rates. While returns decreased across all groups, the decline is rarely claimed, at least so far. …”
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Inflation is not an Effective Remedy for High Public Debt Ratio by Michael Grömling, Jürgen Matthes

“…In the longer term, it may be dangerous if inflation expectations are de-anchored and interest rates rise for a prolonged time so that debt sustainability is ultimately jeopardised.…”
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The impact of the digital ruble on the resource base of Russian banks by A. V. Berdyshev

“…Based on the analysis of the structure of the banking sector’s liabilities to legal entities and individuals, it has been determined that the launch of the digital ruble will provoke an outflow of about 15 % of funds from the current accounts of customers, which, given the use of stable balances on these accounts as a source of financing of income generating assets, will cause the need for banks to increase their interest rates on the credit market.…”
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The Impact of the Covid Pandemic on UK Economic Policy and Its Legacy by Nicholas Sowels

“…However, the article concludes that the era of unprecedented ultra-low interest rates which began in the wake of the global financial crisis (2007-2009) is over. …”
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The Impact of the Financial and Economic Crisis on Public Private Partnerships by Matej Švigelj, Nevenka Hrovatin

“…PPPs have been exposed to both financial and real impacts of the crisis. High interest rates and limited access to finance have been seen as the main factors reflecting the impact of the financial crisis on PPPs. …”
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Human Resource Capabilities, Financial Support and Enterprise Development in Nebbi District, West Nile Region Uganda by Eton, Marus, Charles David Ebong, Fabian, Mwosi, Deus Mutesigensi, Benard, Patrick Ogwel

“…The study recommended that government should support enterprise development by providing an environment which promotes business, provide access to credit, provide affordable interest rates, and provide subsidies to local enterprise developers. …”
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Income and Credit Debt of Private Households by Markus M. Grabka, Berenike Bartz

“…Despite this overall positive development, there is a risk that the problem of over-indebtedness in Germany could increase again since on the one hand, many self-employed people have suffered high turnover losses due to the containment measures of the coronavirus pandemic, while on the other, the ECB could raise nominal interest rates due to tightened inflation, which would lead to a considerable financial burden for indebted households.…”
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The Dynamic Spread of the Forward CDS with General Random Loss by Kun Tian, Dewen Xiong, Zhongxing Ye

“…We mainly consider the forward CDS with loss in the framework of stochastic interest rates whose term structures are modeled by the Heath-Jarrow-Morton approach with jumps under the general conditional density hypothesis. …”
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Microfinance et capitalisme : la mission de prêter aux pauvres exclut-elle la recherche du profit ? Le cas des États-Unis et de l’Inde by Régine Hollander

“…In both cases, due to the risk incurred by lenders and their considerable operating costs, interest rates are higher than those of bank loans. This article compares the two approaches anchored to the economic contexts of two countries that differ greatly in terms of development and living standards, i.e. …”
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Influence of Industrialisation on Economic Growth: A Case Study of Mbarara City. by Agaba, Gordon

“…This research examined the impact of industrialization on economic growth and the effects of exchange rates and interest rates on economic growth using several econometrics methods: Pairwise Granger causality tests; The lagged error mechanism ECM; Serial correlation; Johansen co-integration. …”
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Household Money Holdings in the Euro Area: an explorative investigation by Franz Seitz, Julian von Landesberger

“…According to our analysis, it is quite apparent that in equilibrium, households jointly determine consumption and broad money holdings which are both influenced by wealth as well as interest rates. The importance of household money holdings for consumption expenditures may cast doubt on a purely passive role for money.…”
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A Tripartite Game-Theory-Based Cooperation Mechanism for the Electronic Warehouse Receipt Pledge Financing Mode by Junwei Jia, Haoyue Zhang, Qi Wang

“…Credit levels, loan interest rates, and pledge realization rates are all important factors that affect the choice strategy of commercial banks.…”
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Restructuring the Economic Policy Framework in Brazil: Genuine or Gattopardo change? by Rui Lyrio Modenesi, André de Melo Modenesi, Norberto Montani Martins, Patrick Fontaine

“…As we argued, it locked economy into a trap: low growth; high interest rates; relatively high inflation; and overvalued currency. …”
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