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We use share price data to calculate bank asset volatilities, market capital-asset ratios, and the public-sector depositor protection liability for Australia. The results show that the average capital ratio for the Australian banking sector has risen over the past decade, while the riskiness of...
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This paper examines an agent's choice of forecast method within a standard asset pricing model. To make a conditional forecast, a representative agent may choose one of the following: (1) a rational (or fundamentals-based) forecast that employs knowledge of the stochastic process governing...
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near-rational solution allows the asset price to occasionally dip below its fundamental value. Under mild risk aversion …
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This paper examines an agent's choice of forecast method within a standard asset pricing model. To make a conditional forecast, a representative agent may choose one of the following: (1) a rational (or fundamentals-based) forecast that employs knowledge of the stochastic process governing...
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This paper investigates the comovements of stocks and bonds at the individual firm level. Based on a sample of 702 corporate bonds, individual stock returns and bond yield changes are found to be negatively correlated, suggesting that the comovements of individual stocks and bonds are largely...
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) discount rate model, which rules out risk premia, and therefore provides a useful benchmark. ; The main result is that a … prices. In the CCAPM this requires very curved indifference curves (i.e., a large coefficient of relative risk aversion …
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BHC expansion into nonbank financial activities may increase or decrease the standard deviation of BHC ROA and/or the probability of bankruptcy of the BHC. Using individual firm data and a new application of a simulated merger methodology, I find the standard deviation minimizing and bankruptcy...
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from their stock (and bond) prices would take less risk than non-publicly traded banks because counterparties, borrowers …, and regulators could react to adverse public market signals against publicly traded banks. In comparing the credit risk …, earnings risk, capitalization, and failure risk between publicly traded and non-publicly traded banks, the evidence in this …
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One reason why countries service their external debts is the fear that default might lead to shrinkage of international trade. If so, then creditors should systematically lend more to countries with which they share closer trade links. We develop a simple theoretical model to capture this...
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