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of government in the insolvency-resolution process. Consistent with an hypothesis that FDICIA has improved incentives … transitions and the character of insolvency resolutions have changed substantially under FDICIA. The average interval between bank …
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Banks are in the business of taking calculated risks. Expanding the geographic footprint of an organization's profit-making activities changes the geographic pattern of its exposure to loss in ways that are hard for regulators and supervisors to observe. This paper tests and confirms the...
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efficiently with cross-border issues. To track and control insolvency risk within and across any set of countries, officials must …
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As financial institutions and markets transact more and more cross-border business, gaps and flaws in national safety nets become more consequential. Because citizens of host (home) countries may be made to pay for mistakes made in the home (host) country, Basel's lead-regulator paradigm...
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This paper supplies an agency-cost and contestable-markets perspective on the financial policies that triggered the Asian financial crisis. The agency-cost analysis hypothesizes that individual-country regulators knew that politically directed loans had made their banks insolvent, but...
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This paper tests the optimal-contracting hypothesis, drawing upon data from a natural experiment that ended during the Great Depression. The subjects of our experiment are bank stockholders. The experimental manipulation concerns the imposition of state or federal restrictions on the contracts...
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Deposit insurance reduces liquidity risk but it also can increase insolvency risk by encouraging reckless behavior. A … increased their insolvency risk, and competed aggressively for the deposits of uninsured banks operating nearby. When prices …
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