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pre-crisis bank behavior, and suggest implications for the optimal design of capital regulation. …
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We develop a model of endogenous lobby formation in which wealth inequality and political accountability undermine entry and financial development. Incumbents seek a low level of effective investor protection to prevent potential entrants from raising capital. They succeed because they can...
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temporary increases in market concentration after a bank failure, by promoting a takeover of failed banks by a solvent …
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possibility of private appropriation of value. We then distinguish between bank-led groups, which are more hierarchical, and … industry-led group firms (unlike in independent firms), while the negative correlation is entirely due to bank-led group firms … sensitivity of group firms' investment to Q is entirely to be attributed to firms in bank-led groups, where the controlling bank …
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The paper seeks to explain the huge cross country variation in private pension funding, shaped by historical choice made when universal pension systems were created after the Great Depression. According to Perotti and von Thadden (2006), large inflationary shocks due to war damage devastated...
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in a strong position. We show that bank-controlled firms will be opaque, while shareholder-run firms prefer more … transparency. We can predict a clustering of attributes: bank dominance, established firms with valuable investment, but also … equity-controlled firms. Finally, bank control may fail to keep firms less transparent as global trading volumes rise. …
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make full use of the strategic advantage of a strong firm. We show that bank-controlled firms will tend to discourage … that bank control may fail to keep firms less transparent as global trading volumes rise. …
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Does demand for safety create instability ? Secured (repo) funding can be made so safe that it never runs, but shifts risk to unsecured creditors. We show that this triggers more frequent runs by unsecured creditors, even in the absence of fundamental risk. This effect is separate from the...
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This paper discusses liquidity regulation when short-term funding enables credit growth but generates negative systemic risk externalities. It focuses on the relative merit of price versus quantity rules, showing how they target different incentives for risk creation. When banks differ in credit...
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