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begin by showing that Exchange risk adjustment and reinsurance succeed in neutralizing selection incentives for most, but … offered in equilibrium can fail to optimally trade-off risk protection and moral hazard …
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health outcomes: affected hospitals experience a significant increase in risk-adjusted, unplanned 30-day readmission rates of … recently discharged patients and in risk-adjusted 30-day patient mortality rates. Overall, the results indicate that access to …
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In this paper, we investigate whether U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs) with strong and independent risk management … functions have lower enterprise-wide risk. We hand-collect information on the organizational structure of the risk management … function at the 74 largest publicly-listed BHCs, and use this information to construct a Risk Management Index (RMI) that …
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I conclude from that that the variant with uncertainty averse investors is more suitable to analyze policy implications. This paper therefore provides a model, in which the outright purchase of troubled assets by the government at prices above current market prices may both alleviate the...
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of banks argue that compensation for bearing systematic risk is not part of bank output. We apply these models and find …
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We examine the effect of negative nominal interest rates on bank profitability and behavior using a cross-country panel of over 5,100 banks in 27 countries. Our data set includes annual observations for Japanese and European banks between 2010 and 2016, which covers all advanced economies that...
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The largest commercial bank stocks, ranked by total size of the balance sheet, have significantly lower risk … factor in the component of bank returns that is orthogonal to the standard risk factors, including small-minus-big, which has … the right covariance with bank returns to explain the average risk-adjusted returns. This factor measures size …
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We examine how special interests, measured by campaign contributions from the mortgage industry, and constituent interests, measured by the share of subprime borrowers in a congressional district, may have influenced U.S. government policy toward the housing sector during the subprime mortgage...
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manufactured riskless assets of $1.2 trillion by selling short-term ABCP to risk-averse investors, predominantly U.S. money market …
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correlate their risk exposures. Second, private borrowers may deliberately choose to increase their interest-rate sensitivity …
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