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Most bank efficiency studies that use stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) employ each bank's own implicit input price when estimating efficient frontiers. But the theoretical foundation of most studies is a cost minimisation and/ or profit maximisation problem assuming perfect input markets. At...
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On 3 December EY hosted a SUERF conference on banking reform with Sir Howard Davies, the Chairman of RBS, and Dame Colette Bowe, the Chairman of the Banking Standards Board, as the two keynote speakers. Professor David Miles (Imperial College) gave the SUERF 2015 Annual Lecture on Capital and...
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This article examines the loan rate-setting behavior of German banks for a large variety of retail and corporate loan products. We find that a bank's operational efficiency is priced in bank loan rates and alters interest-setting behavior. Specifically, we establish that a higher degree of...
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: transparency of actual monetary policy and the question of who bears final responsibility for monetary policy. The paper shows that … accountability through transparency leads to a lower expected rate of inflation and less stabilization of supply shocks …
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two signals depends on the transparency of the country. Greater transparency reduces risk premia. The empirical results … markets are unsure about the true extent of creative accounting. Fiscal transparency reduces risk premia. Instrumental …
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According to most academics and policymakers, transparency in monetary policymaking is desirable. I examine this … proposition in a small theoretical model emphasizing forwardlooking private sector behavior. Transparency makes it easier for …, transparency may be disadvantageous. It may actually be a policy-distorting straitjacket if the central bank enjoys low …
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members. It investigates the optimal transparency, and the optimal way of transmitting information of committees, by analysing … asymmetric information between the committee and market agents. Transparency about the diversity of views of the committee …
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Bessembinder, Maxwell, and Venkataraman's (2006) information-based channel relating transparency and pricing. During the pre …
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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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This paper introduces a multivariate pure-jump Lévy process which allows for skewness and excess kurtosis of single asset returns and for asymptotic tail dependence in the multivariate setting. It is termed Variance Compound Gamma (VCG). The novelty of my approach is that, by applying a...
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