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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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traders to bank their permits for future use. In the model presented in this paper, banking of carbon allowances in a global … conditions traders find it optimal to bank permits, when banking is socially optimal, and what are the implications for present … of banking on carbon emissions, technological progress, and optimal investment decisions is quantified and the incentives …
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Banking reform has proved to be one of the most problematic elements of economic transition in central and Eastern … Europe. Therefore the paper considers the development of the Estonian banking sector and derives individual banks´ fragility …
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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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, populations are shrinking and ageing at the same time. This paper explores the impact of demographic change on the banking …
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biographical background of 593 supervisory board members in the 29 largest banks and find a pronounced difference in the finance … supervisory board (in-)competence in finance is related to losses in the financial crisis. Improved bank governance is therefore a …
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We study differences in the price paid for liquidity across banks using price data at the individual bank level. Unique to this paper, we also have data on individual banks’ reserve requirements and actual reserve holdings, thus allowing us to gauge the extent to which a bank is short or long...
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In monetary models in which agents are subject to trading shocks there is typically an ex-post inefficiency in that some agents are holding idle balances while others are cash constrained. This inefficiency creates a role for financial intermediaries, such as banks, who accept nominal deposits...
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Banks should evaluate whether a borrower is likely to default. I apply several techniques in the extensive mathematical literature of stochastic optimal control/dynamic programming to derive an optimal debt in an environment where there are risks on both the asset and liabilities sides. The...
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We explore the rationale for regulatory rules that prohibit banks from developing some of their natural activities when their capital level is low, as epitomized by the US Prompt Corrective Action (PCA). This paper is built on two insights. First, in a moral hazard setting, capital requirement...
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