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Safety-Net Benefits Conferred on Difficult-to-Fail-and-Unwind Banks in the US and EU Before and During the Great Recession

Carbo-Valverde, Santiago - 2011

This paper models and estimates ex ante safety-net benefits at a sample of large banks in US and Europe during 2003-2008. Our results suggest that difficult-to-fail and unwind (DFU) banks enjoyed substantially higher ex ante benefits than other institutions. Safety-net benefits prove...

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Evidence of Regulatory Arbitrage in Cross-Border Mergers of Banks in the EU

Carbo-Valverde, Santiago - 2009

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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Can the European Community Afford to Neglect the Need for More Accountable Safety-Net Management?

Kane, Edward J. - 2005

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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Testing Macroprudential Stress Tests : The Risk of Regulatory Risk Weights

Acharya, Viral V. - 2013

Macroprudential stress tests have been employed by regulators in the United States and Europe to assess and address the solvency condition of financial firms in adverse macroeconomic scenarios. We provide a test of these stress tests by comparing their risk assessments and outcomes to those from...

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Commercial bank activities in urban mortgage financing

Behrens, Carl F. - 1952

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The industrial organization and regulation of the securities industry

Lo, Andrew W. (ed.) - 1996

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A Corporate Beauty Contest

Graham, John R. - 2010

that executive compensation is linked to these perceived "competence" ratings. Our analysis explores these findings in more …-facedness" of the CEO. That is, more mature looking CEOs are assigned higher "competence" scores. This finding is potentially …. Essentially, the "look" of competence says very little about effective competence …

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The Efficacy of Parochial Politics : Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Governments

Munshi, Kaivan - 2008

with superior observed characteristics and with greater public good provision. This improvement in leadership competence …

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Hierarchies, Specialization, and the Utilization of Knowledge : Theory and Evidence from the Legal Services Industry

Garicano, Luis - 2004

What role do hierarchies play with respect to the organization of production and what determines their structure? We develop an equilibrium model of hierarchical organization, then provide empirical evidence using confidential data on thousands of law offices from the 1992 Census of Services....

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Bad Politicians

Caselli, Francesco - 2001

We present a simple theory of the quality (competence and honesty) of elected officials. Our theory offers four main … than those of high-quality citizens (competence), and/or because they reap higher returns from holding office (honesty …

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