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The 5th joint SUERF/Bank of Finland joint conference was held in Helsinki on 13 June 2013. The general theme of the …
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The emergence of financial conglomerates and multinational financial institutions as well as the development of new financial products have raised concerns as to the ability of separate sectoral supervisors and different national authorities to effectively oversee financial markets....
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This paper demonstrates how the observed correlation between probability of default and loss given default depends on the fact that defaults in which collateral provides 100% recovery are not observed. Creditors see only the defaults of mortgagors who suffer from a fall in collateral value to...
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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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competition and consumer protection policies as well as direct interventions discouraging large value cash payments would be …
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Sufficient solvency of a pension insurance company responsible for defined-benefit pensions guarantees that the pensions are paid regardless of turbulence in the financial market. In the Finnish occupational pension system TyEL, the required level of solvency capital (solvency limit) and its...
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We study a financial market adverse selection model where all agents are endowed with initial wealth and choose to invest as entrepreneurs or financiers, or not to invest. We show that often a lack of outside finance leads to the emergence of financial markets where availability of outside...
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In this paper, by employing a novel approach, we study the relationship between bank type and small-business lending in … a post-transition country. Using a unique dataset on bank branches and firm-level data, we find that local cooperative … domestic banks. Our results are important from a policy perspective, as they show that foreign bank entry and industry …
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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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