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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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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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We model a banker's future bonuses as a series of call options on the bank's profits and show that bonus caps and …
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Building on the work of Sorge and Virolainen (2006), we revisit the data on aggregate Finnish bank loan losses from the …
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Basel II framework requires banks to conduct stress tests on their potential future minimum capital requirements and consider ‘at least the effect of mild recession scenarios’. We propose a stress testing framework for minimum capital requirements in which banks’ corporate credit risks are...
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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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of Basel II on the efficiency of bank lending. We consider competitive credit markets where entrepreneurs may apply for … the cyclicality of bank lending over the business cycle. …
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We study the effects on credit allocation and bank stability of introducing a leverage ratio requirement (LRR) on top … current 3% LRR might even reduce bank stability, counter to regulatory intentions. This is because the allocational effect … caused by the LRR, which makes bank loan portfolios more alike, may turn beneficial risk spreading into harmful risk …
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We show how banks’ excessive risk-taking, stemming from informational asymmetries in loan markets, can lead to an excessive output loss when a recession starts. Risk-based capital requirements can alleviate the output loss by reducing excessive risk-taking in ‘normal’ times. Model...
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