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Using quarterly financial statements and stock market data from 1982 to 2010 for the six largest Canadian chartered banks, this paper documents positive co-movement between Canadian banks’ capital buffer and business cycles. The adoption of Basel Accords and the balance sheet leverage cap...
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(including external risk factors); the policy implications of this analysis are projected after evaluating two fundamental issues …
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First externalities risk due to the size of the companies or the principle that large companies are also at risk of … for savers and investors are taken. If we accept-so conservatively that the risk exposure of a company is limited by its … risk foreseeable losses with positive externalities, then, what can happen with negative derivatives risk capital …
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market risk for bank equities in the case of an emerging market setting, Turkey. The analysis reveals that maturity … volatility of its equity returns. Foreign ownership of a bank also lowers its equity return risk. …
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distinct strategies have affected bank profitability and risk before the crisis, and what impact they have put on the mortgage … crisis. Our results prove that the asset structure of banks was responsible for the systemic risk before the mortgage crisis …
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It is likely that such a crisis could not be born somewhere else only in the United States. The "current financial disaster" is the fruit of the combination of specific factors in the US, where elements were gathered to catalyse such a crisis, like, someway, some "primal soup" where were...
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We assess whether during the recent financial crisis banking systems in countries with more stringent prudential banking regulation have proved more stable. We find indicators of regulatory strength to be relatively well correlated with the extent to which countries have escaped damage during...
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The continuing foreclosure crisis worsened in October 2008. The Federal Reserve (Fed) continued the aggressive expansion of new private credit that it began in mid-September and it created three new credit facilities to add to the plethora of other facilities created since the financial crisis...
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We compare the out-of-sample forecasting accuracy of the time-varying hazard model developed by Shumway (2001) and the one-period probit model used by Cole and Gunther (1998). Using data on U.S. bank failures from 1985 – 1992, we find that, from an econometric perspective, the hazard model is...
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In this study, we analyze why U.S. commercial banks failed during the recent financial crisis. We find that proxies for commercial real estate investments, as well as traditional proxies for the CAMELS components, do an excellent job in explaining the failures of banks that were closed during...
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