Book Description
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston offers the full text of the article entitled "Margin Requirements, Margin Loans, and Margin Rates: Practice and Principles," written by Peter Fortune. The article was published in the September/October 2000 issue of the "New England Economic Review." The text is available in PDF format. This paper discusses the historical background, regulation, and economic principles of margin lending, and the extent to which initial margin requirements restrict the amount of margin lending.