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Profit Taxation and Bank Risk Taking
Kogler, Michael - 2021
How can tax policy improve financial stability? Recent studies suggest large stability gains from eliminating the debt bias in corporate taxation. It is well known that this reform reduces bank leverage. This paper analyzes a novel, complementary channel: risk taking. We model banks’ portfolio...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly : Impact of Negative Interest Rates and QE on the Profitability and Risk-Taking of 1600 German Banks
Florian, Urbschat - 2019
about the pass-through of monetary policy. On the one hand, negative rates could lead to declining bank profitability making …
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Leaning Against the Wind and Crisis Risk
Schularick, Moritz - 2020
Can central banks defuse rising stability risks in financial booms by leaning against the wind with higher interest rates? This paper studies the state-dependent effects of monetary policy on financial stability. Based on the near-universe of advanced economy financial cycles since the 19th...
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Deposit Insurance, Moral Hazard and Bank Risk
Karas, Alexei; Pyle, William; Schoors, Koen J. L. - 2021
Using evidence from Russia, we explore the effect of the introduction of deposit insurance on bank risk. Drawing on variation in the ratio of firm deposits to total household and firm deposits before the announcement of deposit insurance, so as to capture the magnitude of the decrease in market...
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Bank Regulation and Sovereign Risk : A Paradox
Afonso, António; Teixeira, André - 2023
This paper investigates the impact of banking prudential regulation on sovereign risk. We show that prudential regulation reduces sovereign risk and induces governments to spend more. As a result, countries with tight prudential regulation have lower primary budget balances and accumulate more...
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On the Profitability of Cross-Ownership in Cournot Oligopolies : Stock Sizes Matter
Benchekroun, Hassan - 2020
We examine the profitability of cross-ownership in an oligopolistic industry where firms compete as Cournot rivals. We … symmetric cross-ownership is never profitable for any levels of non-controlling minority shareholdings if the participation … over to the case of non-renewable resource industries. The profitability of a symmetric cross-ownership can be positive …
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Profit Effects of Consumers’ Identity Management : A Dynamic Model
Laussel, Didier; Van Long, Ngo; Resende, Joana - 2021
We consider a non-durable good monopoly that collects data on its customers in order to profile them and subsequently practice price discrimination on returning customers. The monopolist’s price discrimination scheme is leaky, in the sense that an endogenous fraction of consumers choose to...
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Growth and earnings persistence in banking firms: a dynamic panel investigation
Shehzad, Choudhry Tanveer; de Haan, Jakob; Scholtens, Bert - 2009
This paper investigates (i) whether growth and profitability persist in banking firms, (ii) whether the level and … volatility of growth and profitability are bank-size dependent, and (iii) the relationship between growth and profitability of a … evidence of persistence in bank growth. However, our findings suggest significant persistence in bank profitability. Moreover …
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Tenure Choice, Portfolio Structure and Long-Term Care - Optimal Risk Management in Retirement
Fehr, Hans - 2019
We study the interplay between tenure decisions, stock market investment and the public social security system. Housing equity not only serves a dual purpose as a consumption good and as an asset, but also provides insurance to buffer various risks in retirement. Our life cycle model captures...
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Arbitrage Pricing Theory, the Stochastic Discount Factor and Estimation of Risk Premia from Portfolios
Pesaran, M. Hashem; Smith, Ron - 2021
The arbitrage pricing theory (APT) attributes differences in expected returns to exposure to systematic risk factors …
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