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) and country-specific (disclosure requirements, concentration of the banking sector) variables. While most incentives are … substituted by liquidity regulation, a bank's disclosure requirement and size remain significant. A key takeaway from our analysis … is that the complementary nature of disclosure and liquidity requirements provides a strong rationale for considering …
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The empirical evidence of heavy tails in stock return data is recognised by risk managers as an important factor in assessing the Value-at-Risk and risk profile of investment portfolios. Tail index estimation appears to be a tailor-made tool for estimating the extreme quantiles of heavy tailed...
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In this paper various Value-at-Risk techniques are applied tot the Dutch stock market index AEX and to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. the main conclusions are: (1) Changing volatility over time is the most important characteristic of stock returns when modelling value-at-risk; (2) For high...
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In this paper various Value-at-Risk techniques are applied to the Dutch stock market index AEX and to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The main conclusion are: (1) Changing volatility over time is the most important characteristic of stock returns when modelling value-at-risk; (2) For low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005106775
Over the past few decades, the worldwide banking industry has undergone strong consolidation. As a result, the number …
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This report presents an overview of the theory of regulation in general, with special attention for the regulation of banks. Two theories of government regulation are described. The first, normative, theory uses market failures as the justification of government regulation. The second, positive,...
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This paper employs stochastic frontier cost and profit models to estimate economies of scale as well as X-efficiency for multi-billion dollar European and U.S. banks in the period 1995-1999. Empirical results with respect to separate analyses of large European and U.S. banks are strikingly...
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banking sector. The fact that environmental factors that are not appropriately controlled may easily bias efficiency estimates … inefficiencies on a set of a bank.s strategic choices, local banking market variables, and local (regional) macro variables. For the …
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important in the performance of banks and insurances, analyze the influences of a number of observable factors on banking and …
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factors in stress situations. The methodology is applied to the Dutch banking sector. …
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