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Financial locations : Frankfurt’s place and perspectives
The introduction of a common currency as well as the harmonization of rules and regulations in Europe has significantly reduced distance in all its guises. With reduced costs of overcoming space, this emphasizes centripetal forces and it should foster consolidation of financial activity. In a national context, as a rule, this led to the emergence of one financial center. Hence, Europeanization of financial and monetary affairs could foretell the relegation of some European financial hubs such as Frankfurt and Paris to third-rank status. Frankfurt’s financial history is interesting insofar as it has lost (in the 1870s) and regained (mainly in the 1980s) its preeminent place in the German context. Because Europe is still characterized by local pockets of information-sensitive assets as well as a demand for variety the national analogy probably does not hold. There is room in Europe for a number of financial hubs of an international dimension, including Frankfurt
Coronavirus and financial stability 3.0: Try equity – risk sharing for companies, large and small
This policy letter adds to the current discussion on how to design a program of government assistance
for firms hurt by the Coronavirus crisis. While not pretending to provide a cure-all proposal, the
advocated scheme could help to bring funding to firms, even small firms, quickly, without increasing
their leverage and default risk. The plan combines outright cash transfers to firms with a temporary,
elevated corporate profit tax at the firm level as a form of conditional payback. The implied equity-like
payment structure has positive risk-sharing features for firms, without impinging on ownership
structures. The proposal has to be implemented at the pan-European level to strengthen Euro area
resilience
Using primary care databases for addiction research:An introduction and overview of strengths and weaknesses
Primary care databases extract and combine routine data from the electronic patient records of various participating practices on a regular basis. These databases can be used for innovative and relevant addiction research, but such use requires a thorough understanding of how data were originally collected and how they need to be processed and statistically analysed to produce sound scientific evidence. The aims of this paper are therefore to (1) make a case for why primary care databases should be considered more frequently for addiction research; (2) provide an overview of how primary care databases are constructed; (3) highlight important methodological and statistical strengths and weaknesses of using primary care databases for research; and (4) give practical advice about how a researcher can get access to databases. Three major primary care databases from the UK serve as examples: Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), The Health Improvement Network (THIN), and QResearch
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