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This paper critically reviews the debate on CRAs and, in the light thereof, analyses the European regulatory approach to CRAs, thereby combining insights from economics and law. We first provide some basic background on the function of CRAs. Thereafter, we focus on the two main tasks for which...
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In the wake of the financial crisis, several countries are to ban commission payments to improve the quality of financial advice. This paper investigates the potential impact of commission bans on the source and quality of financial advice. To this end, we extend Inderst and Ottaviani's (2012)...
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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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Traditional theory suggests that high franchise value limits bank risk-taking incentives. Then why did many banks with exceptionally valuable franchises get exposed to new financial instruments, resulting in significant losses during the crisis? This paper attempts to reconcile theory and...
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In recent years, several European Union member states have modified the institutional design offinancial supervision. These reforms pose the question which considerations have led to the different models chosen in these countries. We analyse the considerations in the Netherlands leading to the...
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. EU-regulation has obliged member countries to make their systems mandatory and there is a tendency towards ex ante …
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This paper studies the impact of explicit deposit insurance on market discipline in a framework that resembles a natural experiment. We improve upon previous studies by exploiting a unique combination of country-specific circumstances, design features, and data availability that allows us to...
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This paper is the first to analyze market impact and execution costs of equity trading by a pension fund. We find that, on average, these costs are nonnegligible. Average market impact costs equal 20 basis points for buys and 30 basis points for sells; average execution costs equal 27 basis...
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Government bonds receive preferential treatment in financial regulation. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the … analysis suggests that preferential treatment in liquidity and capital regulation increases banks' demand for government bonds … beyond their own risk appetite. Liquidity and capital regulation also seem to incentivize banks to substitute other bonds …
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The purpose of this paper is to assess the history of global liquidity regulation until the revised Basel III proposals … in 2013 and to analyze the interaction of capital regulation and banks' liquidity buffers. Our analysis suggests that … regulating capital is associated with declining liquidity uffers. The interaction of liquidity regulation and monetary policy as …
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