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The purpose of this article, and of its earlier companion article (Part (1) Rule-making, 12 European Business Organization Law Review (2011) p. 41), is to examine the implications of the new European Securities and Markets Authority which was established in January 2011. In the wake of the...
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The study explores the growth of the Athens Stock Exchange through new listings and IPOs over the period 1880-1940. We examine institutional changes in exchange governance and listing requirements. On a theme that has not been addressed before, we find that simple listings were far more numerous...
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Given the opportunity to buy IPO shares of uncertain value at a fixed price, potentially informed investors have an incentive to refuse to participate in offerings the underwriter happens to overprice. We show that an underwriter can efficiently resolve this problem by entering into a repeat...
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Ambivalence in the regulatory definition of capital adequacy for credit risk has recently stirred the financial … generated from a portfolio of bank loans in the form of tranches with different seniority. By way of modelling Merton-type risk … optimal design of loan securitisation from the perspective of credit risk in potential collateral default. We propose a …
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Many financial applications, such as risk analysis and derivatives pricing, depend on time scaling of risk. A common … is to examine time scaling of risk when returns follow a jump diffusion process. It is argued that a jump diffusion is … well-suited for the modeling of systemic risk, which is the raison d’etre of the Basel capital adequacy proposals. We …
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This paper introduces a new model for portfolio credit risk incorporating default and spread widening in a simple and …. This model is applicable to portfolio credit risk management, stress test, or to fit into regulatory capital requirements …
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coalition of investors (block-booking). Block-booking banks set offer prices to equalize downside risk across their offerings … distribution on non-tech IPOs during non-boom years, equalizing downside risk implies that the average initial return on tech …
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The paper draws lessons from the experience of the past year for the conduct of central banks in the pursuit of macroeconomic and financial stability. Macroeconomic stability is defined as either price stability or as price stability and sustainable output or employment growth. Financial...
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As we write, the world is still in the grips of a financial crisis. Germany was one of the first countries to bail out a bank in July 2007. Then, in September 2007, the United Kingdom (UK) witnessed a run on a building society, Northern Rock, and the subsequent widespread nationalization of its...
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We study an equilibrium model with restricted investor participation in which strategic arbitrageurs reap profits by exploiting mispricings across different trading locations. We edogonize the asset structure as the outcome of the security design game played by the arbitrageurs. The equilibrium...
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