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Hattori, Masazumi; Shin, Hyun Song - Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan - 2007

Yen carry trades have traditionally been viewed in narrow terms purely as a foreign exchange transaction. However, evidence from the waxing and waning of balance sheets of foreign banks operating in Japan points to a broader notion of the carry trade. Yen liabilities fund not only pure currency...

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Access to Banking Services and Poverty Reduction: A State-wise Assessment in India

Bhandari, Amit Kumar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services at affordable cost to the poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal financial systems. The most important part of financial...

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Securitization, Transparency and Liquidity

Pagano, Marco; Volpin, Paolo - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2008

We present a model in which issuers of asset backed securities choose to release coarse information to enhance the liquidity of their primary market, at the cost of reducing secondary market liquidity or even causing it to freeze. The degree of transparency is inefficiently low if the social...

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Good Securitization, Bad Securitization

Plantin, Guillaume - Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan - 2011

I use a simple banking model to study the circumstances under which excessive and inefficient securitization may occur …. I first stress that increasing securitization rates that reduce banks' incentives to screen borrowers and thus lead to … the informational efficiency of the securitization market, then there is room for excessive securitization. The model …

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Credit Ratings Failures and Policy Options

Pagano, Marco; Volpin, Paolo - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2009

This paper examines the role of credit rating agencies in the subprime crisis that triggered the 2007-08 financial turmoil. We focus on two aspects of ratings that contributed to the boom and bust of the market for structured debt: rating inflation and coarse information disclosure. The paper...

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The Impact of Bank Size on Market Power

Bikker, Jacob A.; Spierdijk, Laura; Finnie, Paul - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2006

Over the past few decades, the worldwide banking industry has undergone strong consolidation. As a result, the number of banks has fallen sharply. At the same time, the size of the largest banks has increased substantially, both in absolute figures and relative to the size of smaller banks. This...

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Regulation and banking: a survey

Hebbink, G.E.; Prast, H.M. - de Nederlandsche Bank - 1998

This report presents an overview of the theory of regulation in general, with special attention for the regulation of banks. Two theories of government regulation are described. The first, normative, theory uses market failures as the justification of government regulation. The second, positive,...

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Large Bank Efficiency in Europe and the United States: Are There Economic Motivations for Geographic Expansion in Financial Services?

Bos, J.W.B.; Kolari, J.W. - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2003

This paper employs stochastic frontier cost and profit models to estimate economies of scale as well as X-efficiency for multi-billion dollar European and U.S. banks in the period 1995-1999. Empirical results with respect to separate analyses of large European and U.S. banks are strikingly...

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Follow the money: what does the literature on banking tell prudential supervisors on bank business models?

Cavelaars, Paul; Passenier, Joost - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2012

This paper gives an overview of the recent literature on bank business models, structured along what we deem to be the three central questions when analysing business models. By doing so, we endeavour to provide the recent shift in prudential supervision towards the analysis of bank business...

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Preferential regulatory treatment and banks' demand for government bonds

Bonner, Clemens - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2014

Government bonds receive preferential treatment in financial regulation. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of this preferential treatment on banks' demand for government bonds. Using unique transaction-level data, our analysis suggests that preferential treatment in liquidity...

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