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Quantification of operational risk has received increased attention with the inclusion of an explicit capital charge for operational risk under the new Basle proposal. The proposal provides significant flexibility for banks to use internal models to estimate their operational risk, and the...
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We study risk management in financial institutions using data on hedging of interest rate and foreign exchange risk. We find strong evidence that institutions with higher net worth hedge more, controlling for risk exposures, both across institutions and within institutions over time. For...
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on solvent banks leading to bank panics. But financial crises of the last two decades have not fit the mold. A new …
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typical bank loan maturities; (ii) incorporate bank-lending responses to climate risks; (iii) assess the adequacy of climate …
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Recent advances in AI represent improvements in prediction. We examine how decision-making and risk management strategies change when prediction improves. The adoption of AI may cause substitution away from risk management activities used when rules are applied (rules require always taking the...
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, which are risks that have an ex ante private reward for the bank on a stand-alone basis, and bad risks, which do not have … such a reward. A well-governed bank takes the amount of risk that maximizes shareholder wealth subject to constraints … cost effective to do so. The role of risk management in such a bank is not to reduce the bank's total risk per se. It is to …
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, focusing on short-term gains but risking further losses if rates rose. Instead of hedging the market value risk of bank asset … fluctuations. More vulnerable banks were more likely to reclassify. Extending Jiang et al.'s (2023) solvency bank run model, we …
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Motivated by the regional bank crisis of 2023, we model the impact of interest rates on the liquidity risk of banks … valuable if depositors remain in the bank. This creates run incentives for uninsured depositors. We show that a run equilibrium … the bank. The liquidity risk of the bank thus increases with interest rates. We provide a formula for the bank's optimal …
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This paper studies banks' investment in risk management practices following the Global Financial Crisis and the advent of stress testing. Banks that experienced greater losses during the Crisis exhibit stronger demand for risk management talents. Banks increase their demand for highly skilled...
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