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Formulas or Supervision? Remarks on the Future of Regulatory Capital

Estrella, Arturo - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1998

[...]This paper focuses on the relative emphasis thatthe structure of regulatory capital places on formulas andon supervision. The two are not viewed as mutually exclusive,but as elements to which capital policy implicitlyassigns relative weights. We will see that in U.S. regulatorypractice,...

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Capital Regulation: The Road Ahead

de Swaan, Tom - ABN AMRO Holding <Amsterdam>; London School of … - 1998

It is a great pleasure for me to be here and to participate inthe discussion of the future of capital adequacy regulation.I would like to compliment the organizers of this conferenceon the programme they have set up, covering manyrelevant topics, and the range of experts they have beenable to...

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Remarks on Economic, Supervisory, and Regulatory Issues Facing Foreign Banks Operating in the United States

McDonough, William J. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1995

I am delighted to be here today to address this importantconference on economic, supervisory, and regulatory issuesfacing foreign banks operating in the United States. I alsovery much appreciate the efforts of my colleague GeneLudwig and his staff at the Office of the Comptroller of theCurrency...

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Family Income and Tertiary Education Attendance acrossthe EU: An empirical assessment using sibling data

Vandenberghe, Vincent - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

There is plenty of evidence across the EU to suggest that young people from poorerbackgrounds are less likely to attend tertiary education than their better-off peers. Thiscorrelation is often used to justify monetary transfers to families with students. It isnot clear, however, that these...

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Banks’ Payments-Driven Revenues

Radecki, Lawrence J. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

bankingindustry. This goal is served by taking a broad view of thepayments business and analyzing information provided bylarge bank …

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Supervisory Information and the Frequency of Bank Examinations

Hirtle, Beverly J.; López, José A. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

length of time between bank examinations affects thequality of information available to supervisors. For thesepurposes, we … condition of a bank. Our analysisassumes that examination information incorporates twotypes of data: information available from … information that can be obtained onlythrough on-site examinations, such as confidential informationabout a bank’s troubled assets …

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Macro Markets and Financial Security

Athanasoulis, Stefano; Shiller, Robert J.; Van Wincoop, Eric - Yale University <New Haven, Conn.> / Department of Economics; … - 1999

[...]We address several questions in this paper. First,how could macro markets be useful to the average person?Second, how large are the potential benefits from diversificationif these markets were to be introduced andused optimally? Third, can existing financial marketsachieve a similar degree...

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The Impact of Capital Requirements on U.K. Bank Behaviour

Ediz, Tolga; Michael, Ian; Perraudin, William - Bank of England <London>; London School of Economics … - 1998

[...]The most obvious possible, and undesirable,impact on bank behaviour of risk-weighted capital requirementsis that …

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Assessing the Impact of Prompt Corrective Action on Bank Capital and Risk

Aggarwal, Raj; Jacques, Kevin T. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

[...]This paper examines the impact that the PCAstandards had on bank portfolios following the passage ofFDICIA in 1991 … (1997) to study the impactof risk-based capital, is used to examine how PCA simultaneouslyinfluenced bank capital ratios and … capitaland portfolio risk is explicitly recognized, and as such, theimpact of possible changes in bank capital ratios on risk ina …

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Fair Value Accounting and Regulatory Capital Requirements

Yonetani, Tatsuya; Katsuo, Yuko - Bank von Japan; Tokio / Tokio-Universität; London … - 1998

Advocates of fair value accounting believe that fair valuesprovide more relevant measures of assets, liabilities, andearnings than do historical costs. These advocates assertthat fair value accounting better reflects underlying economicvalues. The advantages of this method—and thecorresponding...

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