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Aldunate, Felipe; Jenter, Dirk; Korteweg, Arthur G.; … - 2021

Does enhanced shareholder liability reduce bank failure? We compare the performance of around 4,200 state-regulated banks of similar size in neighboring U.S. states with different liability regimes during the Great Depression. The distress rate of limited liability banks was 29% higher than that...

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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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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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Brož, Václav; Kočenda, Evžen - 2021

We analyze link between mortgage-related regulatory penalties levied on banks and the level of systemic risk in the U.S. banking industry. We employ a frequency decomposition of volatility spillovers (connectedness) to assess system-wide risk transmission with short-, medium-, and long-term...

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Macroprudential Policy and the Sovereign-Bank Nexus in the Euro Area

Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Kolb, Benedikt - 2021

We explore how changes in capital-based macroprudential regulation in the euro area affect the exposure of national banking sectors to domestic government debt, thus strengthening or weakening the sovereign-bank nexus. To do so, we construct a measure of macroprudential policy based on the...

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Drivers and obstacles to banking SMEs : the role of competition and the institutional framework

de la Torre, Augusto; Martínez Pería, María Soledad; … - 2009

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are important for employment and economic activity; however, they are perceived to lack adequate financing, which hampers their growth. As a consequence, governments have implemented a number of programs to foster SME lending and attention has focused on...

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Competition and stability in banking

Vives, Xavier - 2010

I review the state of the art of the academic theoretical and empirical literature on the potential trade-off between competition and stability in banking. There are two basic channels through which competition may increase instability: by exacerbating the coordination problem of...

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Strategic complementarity, fragility, and regulation

Vives, Xavier - 2011

The paper analyzes a very stylized model of crises and demonstrates how the degree of strategic complementarity in the actions of investors is a critical determinant of fragility. It is shown how the balance sheet composition of a financial intermediary, parameters of the information structure...

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The Relevance of Banks to the European Stock Market

Kick, Andreas; Rottmann, Horst - 2022

moral hazard situation in Europe, where investors strongly rely on the governmental bailouts of distressed banks …

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Securitization of mortgage debt, asset prices and international risk sharing

Hoffmann, Mathias; Nitschka, Thomas - 2009

We explore the impact of mortgage securitization on the international diversification of macroeconomic risk. By making … mortgage-related risks internationally tradeable, securitization contributes considerably to better international consumption … countries that do not allow for mortgage securitization. Our results are based on quarterly data from a panel of 16 …

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