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banks in a range of industrialised economies, extending the existing micro literature on bank performance. Our results … suggest that commercial property prices tend to be positively associated with bank lending and profitability, and negatively … variables determining bank performance are included as controls. Further extensions show that the magnitude of this impact is …
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The crisis enveloping global financial markets since August 2007 was triggered by actual and prospective credit losses on US mortgages. Was the United States just unlucky to have been the first to experience a housing crisis? Or was it inherently more susceptible to one? I examine the limited...
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influence bank decision-making.quot; These papers do not attempt to disentangle the effects of capital regulation versus market … accounting does not affect regulatory capital calculations. This is consistent with bank managers acting as if they are concerned …
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decisions. In equilibrium, lending decisions, capital buffer and the probability of bank failure are endogenously determined …
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Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) prescribes prompt and deterministic termination of banks with insufficient levels of book-value capital. This paper investigates whether reliance on book-value capital is a good policy choice and if PCA is an optimal regulatory approach. I use a variant of DeMarzo...
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This paper explores the pricing of debt in a financial system where the assets that borrowers hold to meet their obligations include claims against other borrowers. Assessing financial claims in a system context captures features that are missing in a partial equilibrium setting. It is possible...
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This study examines bank risk by investigating the equity and loan portfolio characteristics of publicly-traded bank …
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This paper proposes that bank runs are unique equilibrium outcomes instead of self-fulfilling prophecies. By assuming … economy. A bank run would occur if and only if depositors perceive a low return on bank assets. Furthermore, a panic situation … offer a demand-deposit contract that is susceptive to bank runs …
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financing have been less than transparent, it appears to have burdened The People's Bank of China (PBoC) with greater risks to …
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property prices and bank lending. We develop a reduced-form theoretical model which suggests bank lending is closely related to … largely driven by the dynamic linkage between the commercial property sector, bank credit and the macroeconomy. Cross … expansion, rather than excessive bank lending boosting property prices. In addition, GDP has an important influence on both …
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