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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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Regulation and banking: a survey

Hebbink, G.E.; Prast, H.M. - de Nederlandsche Bank - 1998

This report presents an overview of the theory of regulation in general, with special attention for the regulation of banks. Two theories of government regulation are described. The first, normative, theory uses market failures as the justification of government regulation. The second, positive,...

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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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Bank runs in the Diamond-Dybvig model

Wit, J.N.M. - de Nederlandsche Bank - 1998

The Diamond-Dybvig model provides an explanation for: (1) the existence of banks as a risk sharing agreement between depositors against unexpected liquidity needs, (2) bank runs as an act of collective irrationality by rational depositors, and (3) the introduction of deposit insurance as an...

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Simulations in the Dutch interbank payment system: A sensitivity analysis

Heijmans, Ronald - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2009

This paper presents an analysis on the sensitivity of the Dutch interbank payment system with respect to the value transferred and the amount of available collateral. The Dutch system can be characterised as a system with a few large and many relatively small participants.Historical data has...

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A tale of the water-supplying plumber: intraday liquidity provision in payment systems

Ledrut, Elisabeth - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2006

This paper provides an overview of the literature on intraday credit in payment systems to date and explores the dilemma central banks face when deciding on their intraday credit policies. On the one hand, any strategy in which the costs of liquidity are not fully borne by payment system...

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