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thus advance regulation. …
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regulation, recovery and resolution, and risk culture. …
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Should banks be diversified or focused? Does diversification indeed lead to enhanced performance and, therefore, greater safety for banks, as traditional portfolio and banking theory would suggest? This paper investigates the link between banks? profitability (ROA) and their portfolio...
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Ongoing financial innovation and greater information availability increase the tradability of bank assets and reduce banks' dependence on individual bank managers as private information in the lending process declines. In this paper we argue that this has two effects on banks, with opposing...
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SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum, the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS) took the opportunity of the first anniversary of this new institution to organise a joint conference in Berlin on 8-9 November 2011. The purpose of this event was...
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interaction between capital adequacy regulation and credit risk transfer with credit default swaps (CDS) including its effect on … at a certain (potentially distorted) price. Regulation is found to induce the risk-neutral bank to behave in a more risk …-sensitive way: Compared to a situation without regulation the optimal volume of loans decreases more as the riskiness of …
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German banks experienced a merger wave throughout the 1990s. However, the success of bank mergers remains a continuous matter of debate. In this paper we suggest a taxonomy as how to evaluate post-merger performance on the basis of cost efficiency (CE). We categorise mergers a success that...
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interaction between capital adequacy regulation and credit risk transfer with credit default swaps (CDS) including its effect on … at a certain (potentially distorted) price. Regulation is found to induce the risk-neutral bank to behave in a more risk …-sensitive way: Compared to a situation without regulation the optimal volume of loans decreases more as the riskiness of …
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Based on detailed regulatory intervention data among German banks during 1994-2008, we test if supervisory measures affect the likelihood and the timing of bank recovery. Severe regulatory measures increase both the likelihood of recovery and its duration while weak measures are insignificant....
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The establishment of European monetary union (EMU) was widely expected to cause price convergence among member states. In an investigation of this claim, the present study avoids problems of comparability and representativeness by using an extremely detailed and comprehensive scanner database on...
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