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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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. First, Bank of America, JP Morgan and Wells Fargo are consistently in the top 10 throughout the sample. Citigroup and Lehman …
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An anticipated benefit of the prospective European Banking Union is stronger supervision of European banks. Another benefit would be enhanced resolution of banks in distress. While national governments confine themselves to the domestic effects of a banking failure, a European Resolution...
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Diamond-Dybvig model cast in a global games framework, we show that while the CoCo conversion of the issuing bank may bring … the bank back into compliance with capital requirements, it will nevertheless raise the probability of the bank being run … on other banks in the system in the likely case of correlated asset returns, so bank runs elsewhere in the banking system …
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During the Global Financial Crisis, regulators imposed short-selling bans to protect financial institutions. The rationale behind the bans was that “bear raids”, driven by short-sellers, would increase the individual and systemic risk of financial institutions, especially for institutions...
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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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