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This paper provides evidence for a significant relation between international financial markets' integration and output volatility. In the framework of a threshold model, it is shown empirically that this relation depends on country's financial risk. Financial risk indicates a country's ability...
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targeting bank management and, to a lesser extent, penalties mitigate moral hazard. Weak interventions, such as warnings, do not …
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This study examines the promise of reducing expected resolution costs of financial institutions through either voluntary or mandated addition of contingently convertible debt securities to their long-term financing mix. I model the stochastic process by which an initially very well capitalized...
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affect the likelihood and the timing of bank recovery. Severe regulatory measures increase both the likelihood of recovery … conditions also matter for bank recovery. Hence, concerted micro- and macro-prudential policies are key to facilitate distressed … bank recovery …
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to non-banks do not transform sight deposits into illiquid assets as intensively as savings banks with high shares of non-bank … how bank size and the individual bank's position in the interbank market affect liquid assets …
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We examine contagion from a number of financial systems to the German financial system using the information content of CDS prices in a GARCH model. After controlling for common factors which may cause comovement in security prices, we find evidence for contagion from the US and European...
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We decompose the change in banks' net interest margin into a change in market-wide bank rates and a change in the … down into different maturities, creditors and borrowers and degrees of liquidity are as follows: (i) Changes in bank rates …-sheet compositions. (ii) Changes in bank rates and changes in balance-sheet compositions affect the change in the net interest margin …
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Section 340f of the German Commercial Code allows banks to provision against the special risks inherent to the banking business by building hidden reserves. Beyond risk provisioning, these reserves are implicitly accepted as an earnings management device. By analyzing financial statements of...
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This paper provides evidence that interbank markets are tiered rather than flat, in the sense that most banks do not lend to each other directly but through money center banks acting as intermediaries. We capture the concept of tiering by developing a core-periphery model, and devise a procedure...
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Lending specialization on certain industry sectors can have opposing effects on monitoring (including screening) abilities and on the sectoral concentration risk of a credit portfolio. In this paper, we examine in the first part if monitoring abilities of German cooperative banks and savings...
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