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means that, surprisingly, the association between stock prices and spreads of the banking sector does not seem to surge in …
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We examine the informational effects of M&As by investigating whether bank mergers improve banks� ability to screen borrowers. By exploiting a dataset in which we observe a measure of a borrower�s default risk that the lenders observe only imperfectly, we find evidence of these...
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banking model we show that deposit insurance may reduce moral hazard, if deposit insurance credibly leaves out non …
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This paper analyses cross-border contagion in a sample of European banks from January 1994 to January 2003. We use a multinomial logit model to estimate the number of banks in a given country that experience a large shock on the same day (“coexceedances”) as a function of variables measuring...
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banking systems have been characterised by strong implicit insurance operating through the expectation of public intervention …
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finance more small firms, but incur higher costs than centralized ones. Small banks are interpreted as a bank with relatively … effects of banking consolidation and technological change on small business lending. The model suggests that not banking size …
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This paper derives indicators of the severity and structure of banking system risk from asymptotic interdependencies … the euro area, we can also compare banking system stability between the two largest economies in the world. For Europe we …
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EU. Using a data set of more than 5000 large commercial banks from all major European banking markets over the period … 1993-2004, the application of meta-frontiers enables us to assess the existence of a single and integrated European banking … market. We find evidence in favor of a single European banking market characterized by cost and profit meta …
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We analyse the ability of the distance-to-default and bond spreads to signal bank fragility. We show that both indicators are complete and unbiased and that spreads are non-linear in the probability of bank default. We empirically test these properties in a sample of EU banks. We find leading...
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