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This paper deals with the relation between excessive risk taking and capital structure in banks. Examining a quarterly dataset of U.S. banks between 1993 and 2010, we find that equity is valued higher when more risky portfolios are chosen when leverage is high, and that more risk taking has a...
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circumstances. The model, which measures additional bank capital required to compensate for fluctuating credit risk, is a novel …
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We study the dependence between the downside risk of European banks and insurers. Since the downside risk of banks and insurers differs, an interesting question from a supervisory point of view is the risk reduction that derives from diversification within large banks and financial...
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internal rating based approach. The paper considers how a bank's preference for a risk management system is affected by the … presence of supervision by bank regulators. The model uses a principal–agent setting between a bank's owner and its risk … standard approach subsequent to becoming regulated, i.e., the presence of regulation may induce a bank to decrease the quality …
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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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This paper focuses on the stability aspects of cross-border banking. We first argue that cross-border banking brings about various benefits and costs for financial stability. Based on this, we draw conclusions for the desirability of cross-border banking in the EU, and derive implications for...
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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 effects of bank competition from those of state implicit guarantees. We … find that the introduction of free banking laws stimulated the creation of new banks and led to more bank failures. Our …
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We study the effects of a bank’s engagement in trading. Traditional banking is relationship-based: not scalable, long …-based: scalable, short-term, capital constrained, and with the ability to generate risk fromconcentrated positions. When a bank … inefficiencies.A bank may allocate too much capital to trading ex-post, compromising the incentives to build relationships ex …
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We develop a model of endogenous lobby formation in which wealth inequalityand political accountability undermine entry and financial development. In-cumbents seek a low level of effective investor protection to prevent potentialentrants from raising capital. They succeed because they can...
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