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Meeting the Paris Agreement goals will need a rapid acceleration of finance towards clean energy investments in emerging and developing economies. Blended finance is an important tool that can help mobilise commercial investment towards clean energy, whilst preserving scarce public resources for...
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In recent years, several European Union member states have modified the institutional design offinancial supervision. These reforms pose the question which considerations have led to the different models chosen in these countries. We analyse the considerations in the Netherlands leading to the...
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This paper provides some history of deposit insurance and investor protection in the Netherlands against the background of the history of such protection in the European Union, EU-legislation and the recent changes in the design of financial supervision in the Netherlands. It discusses how...
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in 2013 and to analyze the interaction of capital regulation and banks' liquidity buffers. Our analysis suggests that …
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Financial conglomerates, combining banking, securities trading, and insurance, have become an important part of the financial landscape in many countries. Cross-sector consolidation has been fostered by trends such as disintermediation, globalization, and deregulation creating new challenges for...
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banks. However if in extreme scenarios the LCR becomes a binding constraint, the interaction of bank behaviour with the …
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We investigate 62 Dutch banks' liquidity behaviour between January 2004 and March 2010, when these banks were subject … to a liquidity regulation that is very similar to Basel III's Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR). We find that most banks … the regulation. More solvent banks hold fewer liquid assets against their stock of liquid liabilities, suggesting an …
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The current debate on the possible procyclicality of the new Basel Accord pays little attention to the procyclicality created by unsound loan loss provisioning. This paper investigates how bank provisioning behaviour is related to the business cycle, using 8,000 bank-year observations from 29...
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The current debate on the possible procyclicality of the new Basel Accord pays little attention to the procyclicality created by unsound loan loss provisioning. This paper investigates how bank provisioning behaviour is related to the business cycle, using 8,000 bank-year observations from 29...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030256
Traditional theory suggests that high franchise value limits bank risk-taking incentives. Then why did many banks with …
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