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Intermediaries as information aggregators: an application to U.S. treasury auctions

Boyarchenko, Nina; Veldkamp, Laura; Lucca, David O. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2015

According to most theories of financial intermediation, intermediaries diversify risk, transform maturity or liquidity, and screen or monitor borrowers. In U.S. Treasury auctions, none of these rationales apply. Intermediaries submit their customer bids without transforming liquidity or...

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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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Bank heterogeneity and capital allocation: evidence from "fracking" shocks

Plosser, Matthew Charles - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2014

This paper empirically investigates banks’ investment allocations over the recent business cycle. I identify unsolicited deposit shocks resulting from unconventional energy development and estimate bank allocations of these deposits. In the pre-recession period, banks lend 38 percent of...

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Business Cycle Effects of Credit and Technology Shocks in a DSGE Model with Firm Defaults

Pesaran, Hashem; Xu, TengTeng - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper proposes a theoretical framework to analyze the impacts of credit and technology shocks on business cycle dynamics, where firms rely on banks and households for capital financing. Firms are identical ex ante but differ ex post due to different realizations of firm specific technology...

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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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Liquidity risk and U.S. bank lending at home and abroad

Goldberg, Linda S.; Correa, Ricardo; Rice, Tara - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2014

global banks (those with foreign affiliates) are associated with ex ante liquidity management strategies as reflected in …

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