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, as well as an enhanced framework for bank regulation, supervision, and resolution that could mitigate the need to change …This article investigates the nexus of competition and stability in European banking. It analyzes the European legal … framework for competition policy in banking and several cases that pertain to anti-cartel policy, merger policy, and state …
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The global financial crisis of 2007–2008 has given rise to new regulatory initiatives to put restrictions on the size and the term of bankers' pay. We revisit both theoretically and empirically the question of whether these regulations are justified. We model bonuses as a series of sequential...
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We model a banker's future bonuses as a series of call options on the bank's profits and show that bonus caps and … the model to US banking data and show that lengthening the standard one-year bonus payment interval has no material impact …
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bank suffices for unexpected losses with a 95%-99% probability. This translates into an expected bank failure rate as high … as once in twenty years. Even if the bank's interest income is incorporated into our model, the expected failure rate is …
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Failure in bank corporate governance has been seen as a contributing factor to excessive risk-taking pre-crisis with … managerial incentives on bank crisis performance is scarce. Moreover, bank strategy has not previously been accounted for. Hence …
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This theoretical paper explores screening with loan collateral when both the collateral value and the probability of project success fluctuate. Some model versions challenge the classic findings of Bester (1985) by showing that high-risk borrowers may in such case be more willing to pledge...
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theoretical background for the regulation of financial institutions, especially insurance and banking companies, and, finally …A topical concern in public-policy debate is that the current capital adequacy regulation designed for stand …
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In the discussion paper, we employ data on industry-specific corporate sector bankruptcies over the time period from 1986 to 2003 and estimate a macroeconomic credit risk model for the Finnish corporate sector. The sample period includes a severe recession with significantly higher-than-average...
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This theoretical paper explores the effects of costly and non-costly collateral on moral hazard, when collateral value may fluctuate. Given that all collateral is costly, stochastic collateral will entail the same positive incentive effects as nonstochastic collateral, provided the variation in...
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