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measures allow us to rank firms in terms of risk connectedness and firm characteristics. We present a general systemic risk …. Second, the systemic risk in the financial sector built–up from early 2005, peaked in September 2008, and greatly reduced … after the introduction of TARP and the rescue of AIG. Anxiety about European debt markets saw the systemic risk begin to …
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. Furthermore, the risk premium reveals insignificant estimates in both time periods, while asymmetric effects are found to exist … firm size, the impacts arising from the industry policy reform, and how firm size is related to financial risk management …
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-term oriented, with high implicit capital, and low risk (thanks to the law of large numbers). Trading is transactions …-based: scalable, short-term, capital constrained, and with the ability to generate risk fromconcentrated positions. When a bank …-ante. And a bank may use trading for risk-shifting.Financial development augments the scalability of trading, which initially …
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We exploit the introduction of free banking laws in US states during the 1837-1863 period to examine the impact of removing barriers to bank entry on bank competition and economic growth. As governments were not concerned about systemic stability in this period, we are able to isolate the...
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circumstances. The model, which measures additional bank capital required to compensate for fluctuating credit risk, is a novel …) which measures additional returns to compensate for additional share price risk. …
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become more probable too and systemic risk will actually go up after conversion. CoCo’s thus lead to a direct conflict … stress. Finally the link between CoCo conversion and systemic risk highlights the tradeoffs that a regulator faces in …
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Entry requires external finance, especially for less wealthy entrepreneurs, so poor investor protection limits competition. We model how incumbents lobby harder to block access to finance to entrants when politicians are less accountable to voters. In a broad cross-section of countries and...
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This paper deals with the relation between excessive risk taking and capital structure in banks. Examining a quarterly … leverage is high, and that more risk taking has a negative impact on valuation of the debt of highly leveraged banks. We find … no evidence that deposit insurance is encouraging risk taking behaviour. We do find that banks with a more troubled loan …
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This survey reviews the literature on the political economy of financial structure, broadly defined to include the size of capital markets and banking systems as well as the distribution of access to external finance across firms.The theoretical literature on the institutional basis for...
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While financial liberalization has in general favorable effects, reforms in countries with poor regulation is often followed by financial crises. We explain this variation as the outcome of lobbying interests capturing the reform process. Even after liberalization, market investors must rely on...
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