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derived from imperfect competition in markets for financial services is implied, which banks exercise vis-à-vis their loan and … deposit customers. In the past, bank regulation has often been blamed for undermining competition and the functioning of … industry, competition and regulation are deeply interrelated as most regulatory institutions, even if they do not explicitly …
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derived from imperfect competition in markets for financial services is implied, which banks exercise vis-à-vis their loan and … deposit customers. In the past, bank regulation has often been blamed for undermining competition and the functioning of … industry, competition and regulation are deeply interrelated as most regulatory institutions, even if they do not explicitly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022411
Securitization is a financial innovation that experiences a boom-bust cycle, as many other innovations before. This paper analyzes possible reasons for the breakdown of primary and secondary securitization markets, and argues that misaligned incentives along the value chain are the primary cause...
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This paper is a draft for the chapter German banks and banking structure of the forthcoming book The German financial system edited by J.P. Krahnen and R.H. Schmidt (Oxford University Press). As such, the paper starts out with a description of past and present structural features of the German...
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We analyze the differential impact of domestic and foreign monetary policy on the local supply of bank credit in … domestic and foreign currencies. We analyze a novel, supervisory dataset from Hungary that records all bank lending to firms … lower domestic interest rate expands the supply of credit in the domestic but not in the foreign currency. A lower foreign …
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When liquidity plays an important role as in times of financial crisis, asset prices in some markets may reflect the amount of liquidity available in the market rather than the future earning power of the asset. Mark-to-market accounting is not a desirable way to assess the solvency of a...
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for securitised credit exposures. Although we incorporate a simplified sensitivity analysis of the varying levels of …
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In recent years new methods and models have been developed to quantify credit risk on a portfolio basis. CreditMetrics …
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This paper analyzes banks choice between lending to firms individually and sharing lending with other banks, when firms … and banks are subject to moral hazard and monitoring is essential. Multiple-bank lending is optimal whenever the benefit …. The model predicts a greater use of multiple-bank lending when banks are small relative to investment projects, firms are …
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This paper contributes to the economics of financial institutions risk management by exploring how loan securitization a.ects their default risk, their systematic risk, and their stock prices. In a typical CDO transaction a bank retains through a first loss piece a very high proportion of the...
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