Belinda Tracey
As another year draws to an end and the blog prepares for some downtime over the festive period, we wanted to take a look back at the blog in 2020.
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[New post] The Bank Underground Christmas Quiz
Friday, December 18, 2020
BankUnderground posted: " Before Bank Underground goes off on its Christmas holidays, it's time for the Annual Bank Underground Christmas Quiz! We hope you enjoy testing your knowledge on our
[New post] 2020 hindsight: what can supervisors learn from the collapse of Barings Bank 25 years on?
Thursday, December 10, 2020
BankUnderground posted: " Ben Dubow This year marks 25 years since the failure of Barings Bank. On Sunday 26 February 1995, the 200-year old merchant bank blew up thanks to derivatives trading,
[New post] When bigger isn’t better: UK firms’ equity price performance during the Covid-19 pandemic
Friday, December 4, 2020
BankUnderground posted: " Tommaso Aquilante, David Bholat, Andreas Joseph, Riccardo M Masolo, Tim Munday and David van Dijcke Background Covid-19 (Covid) has had heterogeneous effects on different
[New post] Separating deposit-taking from investment banking: new evidence on an old question
Friday, December 4, 2020
BankUnderground posted: " Matthieu Chavaz and David Elliott On 16 June 1933, as the nationwide banking crisis was reaching a new peak, freshly elected US President Franklin D. Roosevelt put his
[New post] Covid-19 briefing: extensions to the SIR model
Friday, December 4, 2020
BankUnderground posted: " John Lewis The SIR model, first developed by Kermack and McKendrick (1927), remains the canonical epidemiological model. It a natural choice for economists seeking to
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