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Demographic Change and Bank Profitability. Empirical Evidence from German Savings Banks

Berlemann, Michael; Oestmann, Marco; Thum, Marcel - CESifo - 2010

, populations are shrinking and ageing at the same time. This paper explores the impact of demographic change on the banking …

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Subprime Crisis and Board (In-)Competence: Private vs. Public Banks in Germany

Hau, Harald; Thum, Marcel - CESifo - 2009

We examine evidence for a systematic underperformance of Germany’s state-owned banks in the current financial crisis and study if the bank losses can be traced to the quality of bank governance. For this purpose, we examine the biographical background of 593 supervisory board members in the 29...

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The Price of Liquidity: Bank Characteristics and Market Conditions

Fecht, Falko; Nyborg, Kjell G.; Rocholl, Jörg - CESifo - 2009

We study differences in the price paid for liquidity across banks using price data at the individual bank level. Unique to this paper, we also have data on individual banks’ reserve requirements and actual reserve holdings, thus allowing us to gauge the extent to which a bank is short or long...

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Foreign Currency Loans and Credit Risk : Evidence from U.S. Banks

Niepmann, Friederike - 2020

When firms borrow in foreign currency but collect revenues in local currency, exchange rate changes can affect their ability to repay their debt. Using loan-level data from U.S. banks' regulatory filings, this paper studies the effect of exchange rate changes on firms' loan payments. A 10...

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How Banks Respond to Negative Interest Rates : Evidence from the Swiss Exemption Threshold

Basten, Christoph - 2018

We analyze the effect of negative monetary policy rates on banks, using detailed supervisory information from Switzerland. For identification, we compare changes in the behavior of banks that had different fractions of their central bank reserves exempt from negative rates. More affected banks...

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The Deterrence Effect of Whistleblowing : An Event Study of Leaked Customer Information from Banks in Tax Havens

Johannesen, Niels - 2018

We document that the first leak of customer information from a tax haven bank caused a sudden flight of deposits from tax havens and a sharp decrease in the market value of banks known to be assisting with tax evasion. The loss of market value was largest for the banks most strongly involved in...

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Unexpected Loan Losses and Bank Capital in an Estimated DSGE Model of the Euro Area

Hristov, Nikolay - 2016

We develop a stylized DSGE model in which banks face capital regulation and their loan portfolios are subject to non-diversifiable losses due to aggregate shocks. The framework is used to explore the importance of the interaction between macroeconomic conditions, credit default and bank...

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Incentive Pay and Bank Risk-Taking : Evidence from Austrian, German, and Swiss Banks

Efing, Matthias - 2014

We use payroll data on 1.2 million bank employee years in the Austrian, German, and Swiss banking sector to identify … incentive pay in the critical banking segments of treasury/capital market management and investment banking for 66 banks. We … banking. Moreover, pre-crisis incentive pay appears too strong for an optimal trade-off between trading income and risk which …

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The Performance of Banks in the MENA Region During the Global Financial Crisis

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2016

This paper examines the impact of the global financial crisis on the banking sector in the Middle East and North Africa …

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Regulatory Arbitrage and the Efficiency of Banking Regulation

Boyer, Pierre - 2016

We study the efficiency of banking regulation under financial integration. Banks freely choose the jurisdiction where …

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