Archive for April 21st, 2008

Corporate Governance and International Standards - Paper by Kern Alexander and Rahul Dhumale

Monday, April 21st, 2008

In 2001, Kern Alexander and Rahul Dhumale published a paper on the relevance of International Standards for the Corporate Governance of Financial Institutions. Both the BCBS and the OECD have released Corporate Governance Principles (the OEDC in 2004, the BCBS in 2006) building on previous work. As the authors point out, corporate ...

Explaining the US Housing Market - Cole Kendall

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Cole Kendall has created a very well-researched series of articles on the US Housing Market on his blog Understanding the Market. As an introduction, he asks How Many Houses are there in the US?: The US has around 125 million houses. Of these, around 109 million houses are occupied year-round, 75 million ...