Saving the Banks: The Political Economy of Bailouts. CES Papers - Open Forum #8, 2012

How much leeway did governments have in designing bank bailouts and deciding on the height of intervention during the 2007-2009 financial crisis? This paper analyzes comparatively what explains government responses to banking crises. Why does the type of intervention during financial crises vary to such a great extent across countries? By analyzing the variety of bailouts in Europe and North America, we will show that the strategies governments use to cope with the instability of financial markets does not depend on economic conditions alone. Rather, they take root in the institutional and political setting of each country and vary in particular according to the different types of business-government relations banks were able to entertain with public decision-makers. Still, “crony capitalism” accounts overstate the role of bank lobbying. With four case studies of the Irish, Danish, British and French bank bailout, we show that countries with close one-on-one relationships between policy-makers and bank management tended to develop unbalanced bailout packages, while countries where banks have strong interbank ties and collective negotiation capacity were able to develop solutions with a greater burden sharing from private institutions.

What strategy for a genuine Single Market? CEPS Special Report No. 126/January 2016

This strategy paper focuses on making the most of the EU single market. The EU should pursue a genuine single market, and treat it as a common asset of all its citizens, economic operators and member states. The economic case to be made on behalf of the genuine single market is powerful and even more so due to the findings of recent empirical economic research. However, only the genuine single market can realise the expectations of such large gains. Weak, ‘feasible’ action plans cannot! The strategy is based, first of all, on a clear design of the genuine single market and subsequently concentrates on ‘what it takes’. Ten types of actions sum up ‘what it takes’: five at the EU level, four at the EU-member state interface, and finally, the realisation of legitimacy and acceptance.

The European Construction - from Communities to a Genuine Supranational Union

The European Union is an entity having a unique way of construction. All started as a need to put the coal and steel resources together in order to avoid a new army conflict on the old continent and as a way to rebuild the European economies after the World War Two. The success of these strategies and policies but also the newly realities that appeared at the European and global level, encouraged the European leaders to dare for more. Hopefully, more and more European states embraced the idea of integration, thanks to all the advantages brought by the membership. Hence, new premises were created and the decision makers took advantage of them and used the treaties as mechanisms for a safe and stable development. Using the observation and the qualitative method by analyzing several researches on this topic and the reforms introduced through the treaties, we will finally be able to validate our research hypothesis that we can speak nowadays about a real union having its own identity, a union which has moved from an intergovernmental organization to a supranational one.

Life-saving crew

description accompanying photograph: Life Saving Crew Father Marquette Statue J. M. Longyear Residence 1893 which was removed to Boston, Mass and reerected, each stone being marked and put in place again in Boston. Original cost of house and grounds said to have been $210000.00 Built of L. Superior Brown Stone. House of left is a rear view of Peter Whites Residence. Longyear House removed a few years after constructed.

The history of the lives of Abeillard and Heloisa : comprising a period of eighty-four years from 1079 to 1163 : with their genuine letters from the collection of Amboise /

The letters (v.2, p. [233]-368) are in English and Latin.

The Hitch case - saving ampoules for a defendant from a chemical test for alcoholic intoxication. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Driver and Pedestrian Programs, Washington, D.C.

The effectiveness of the 55 mph national maximum speed limit as a life saving benefit. Executive summary.

Mode of access: Internet.

The effectiveness of the 55 mph national maximum speed limit as a life saving benefit.

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Spectral analysis of the effects of daylight saving time on motor vehicle fatal traffic accidents. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Mathematical Analysis Division, Washington, D.C.

Life saving potential of greater safety belt usage.

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Saving lives and dollars: highway safety contribution to health care reform and deficit reduction.

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The family dyer and scourer : being a complete treatise on the arts of dying and cleaning every article of dress, bed and window furniture, silks, bonnets, feathers, &c., whether made of flax, silk, cotton, wool, or hair : also, carpets, counterpanes, and hearth-rugs, ensuring a saving of eighty per cent /

Includes index.

How Wisconsin's population is changing : size of farms, farm income, farm ownership, labor saving machinery, size of families, off-farm work, housing conveniences, migration to cities : selected population data by counties, Wisconsin 1950, part II /

"February 1955"

The saving of Ireland, industrial, financial, political,

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Thoughts arising from experience, concerning the present peculiar method of treating persons inoculated for the small-pox : : relating to the preparation of the patines, the manner of the operations, the genuine nature of the disease and of soma other eruptive cases /

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