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Bad Bank(s) and Recapitalization of the Banking Sector

Schäfer, Dorothea; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

, the government would bear responsibility for the management and future resale of toxic assets at its own cost and …

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Are bank holding companies a source of strength to their banking subsidiaries?

Ashcraft, Adam B. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

I present evidence that the cross-guarantee authority granted to the FDIC by the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 has unexpectedly strengthened the Federal Reserve's source-of-strength doctrine. In particular, I find that a bank affiliated with a multi-bank...

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The role of bank advisors in mergers and acquisitions

Allen, Linda (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

"This paper looks at the role of both commercial and investment banks in providing merger advisory services. In this area, unlike some areas of investment banking, commercial banks have always been allowed to compete directly with investment banks. In their dual role as lenders and advisors to...

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Are bank shareholders enemies of regulators or a potential source of market discipline?

Park, Sangkyun (contributor); … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

In moral hazard models, bank shareholders have incentives to transfer wealth from the deposit insurer - that is, maximize put option value - by pursuing riskier strategies. For safe banks with large charter value, however, the risk-taking incentive is outweighed by the possibility of losing...

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Stock market reaction to financial statement certification by bank holding company CEOs

Hirtle, Beverly J. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

In 2002, the Securities and Exchange Commission mandated that the chief executive officers of large, publicly traded firms certify the accuracy of their company financial statements. In this paper, I investigate whether CEO certification has had a measurable effect on the stock market valuation...

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How do stock repurchases affect bank holding company performance?

Hirtle, Beverly J. (contributor) - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource], draft March 2001

financial performance for a large sample of bank holding companies over the years 1987 to 1998. The primary result is that … traded on major exchanges. The finding that higher repurchases are followed by better financial performance is consistent … evidence suggesting that the repurchase-performance link may be driven by different factors for different types of bank holding …

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CDS and equity market reactions to stock issuances in the U.S. financial industry: evidence from the 2002-13 period

Mehran, Hamid; Wei, Chenyang; Cornette, Marcia Millon; … - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2014

We study market reactions to seasoned equity issuances that were announced by financial companies between 2002 and 2013. To assess the risk and valuation implications of these seasoned equity issuances, we conduct an event analysis using daily credit default swap (CDS) and stock market pricing...

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Detecting Mortgage Delinquencies

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Economic hardship is strongly reflected by the housing market. It is the concern of much research, but its analysis is often obstructed by insufficient lagged data. This paper evaluates search intensity for "hardship letter" from Google Insights to detect ensuing mortgage delinquencies. Such...

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Foreign Banks: Trends, Impact and Financial Stability

Claessens, Stijn; Horen, Neeltje van - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2011

Using a new, comprehensive database on bank ownership, identifying also the home country of foreign banks, for 137 countries over the period 1995-2009, this paper provides an overview of foreign bank activity and its impact of financial development and stability. We document substantial...

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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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