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Contract Structure, Risk Sharing, and Investment Choice

Fischer, Greg - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

Few micronance-funded businesses grow beyond subsistence entrepreneur-ship. This paper considers one possible explanation: that the structure ofexisting micronance contracts may discourage risky but high-expected returninvestments. To explore this possibility, I develop a theory that unies...

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Investment Choice and Inflation Uncertainty

Fischer, Greg - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

This paper investigates the relationship between inflation uncertainty and the investmentdecisions of small, microfinance-funded firms in the Dominican Republic. An extensive literature documents the array of opposing factors linking inflation uncertainty and investment;ultimately this...

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Risk Heterogeneity and Credit Supply: Evidence from the Mortgage Market

Besley, Timothy; Meads, Neil; Surico, Paolo - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

This paper uses a unique data set on more than 600,000 mortgagecontracts to estimate a credit supply function which allows for risk-heterogeneity. Non-linearity is modeled using quantile regressions. Wepropose an instrumental variable approach in which changes in the taxtreatment of housing...

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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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Industry Practices in Credit Risk Modeling and Internal Capital Allocations: Implications for a Models-Based Regulatory Capital Standard

Jones, David; Mingo, John - United States / Reserve Board; London School of … - 1998

Bank supervisors have long recognized two types of shortcomingsin the Basle Accord’s risk-based capital (RBC …)framework. First, the regulatory measures of “capital” maynot represent a bank’s true capacity to absorb unexpectedlosses. Deficiencies …

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