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Regulation requires banks to hold a minimum capital endowment upon their establishment. But what role does initial capital play in a bank�s lifecycle? This paper addresses the issue for start-up banks. We use both survival-time and binary choice models for a sample of newly-established...
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Using 11 years of monthly Italian bank-by-bank data, this paper correlates the bilateral amounts and the identity of each interbank borrower and lender with a long list of explanatory variables. The results show that interbank customer relationships, i.e. stable and strong relationships between...
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reflect the characteristics of the guarantor (credit risk, size of rescue measures, timeliness of repayments) and not those of …
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After the crisis, bank regulators are considering mitigating liquidity risk by introducing quantity limits on liquidity … and maturity mismatch. We argue that aggregate liquidity risk can be reduced with little deadweight loss by encouraging … readily observable variable correlated with systemic liquidity risk (e.g. the LIBOR-OIS spread) is above a trigger threshold …
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programmes on banks� risk and valuation, looking at the behaviour of CDS premia and stock prices. We then proceed to analyse …
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The recent financial crisis has revived the debate on deposit insurance. Public awareness of its existence is essential in order to prevent a bank run. Analysing the results of three questions on this topic introduced in the last Survey on Household Income and Wealth, this paper investigates...
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This paper tests the role of different banks� liquidity funding structures in explaining the bank failures that occurred in the United States between 2007 and 2009. The results highlight that funding is indeed a significant factor in explaining banks� probability of default. By...
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The Basel Committee for Banking Supervision designed a system of risk weights (the so called standardised approach) to … measure the riskiness of banks� loan portfolios. Its ability to adequately reflect risk is empirically investigated in this … when ratings worsen. Second, the estimated spreads per rating class indicate that the risk/rating relationship might be …
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This paper studies the provision of incentives in a universal bank. This is regarded as a (common) agent serving different clients with potentially conflicting interests; for example, it may buy assets on behalf of investors and sell assets on behalf of issuing firms. The clients offer incentive...
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Current policy debate has renewed interest in countercyclical provisioning policies; dynamic provisions are regarded as a valuable device for pursuing this goal. Last July, Ecofin supported "the introduction of forward-looking provisioning, which consists in constituting provisions deducted from...
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