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Taming overconfident CEOs through stricter financial regulation
Kassner, Bernhard - 2023
paper shows that financial regulation can be effective at mitigating this type of risk. Exploiting regulatory changes … financial institutions subject to stricter regulation. Following the easing of these regulations, overconfidence-induced risk …-taking increases again. These findings confirm the effectiveness of financial regulation at correcting overconfident behavior, but also …
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Regulatory competition in capital standards with selection effects among banks
Haufler, Andreas; Maier, Ulf - 2017
Several countries have recently introduced national capital standards exceeding the internationally coordinated Basel III rules, which is inconsistent with the 'race to the bottom' in capital standards found in the literature. We study regulatory competition when banks are heterogeneous and give...
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A comprehensive view on risk reporting : evidence from supervisory data
Abbassi, Puriya; Schmidt, Michael - 2018
We show that banks' risk exposure in one asset category affects how they report regulatory risk weights for another asset category. Specifically, banks report lower credit risk weights for their loan portfolio when they face higher risk exposure in their trading book. This relationship is...
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Macroprudential capital regulation and fiscal balances in the euro area
Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Kolb, Benedikt - 2024
in macroprudential capital regulation. Our findings suggest a dichotomy between country groups. In peripheral countries … core countries, the cyclically adjusted primary balance ratio barely reacts to a sudden tightening in capital regulation. …
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Financial development, growth and equity in Brazil
Pinheiro, Armando Castelar; Bonelli, Régis - 2015
Financial markets help to foster growth and productivity through their role in mobilizing savings to finance investment and production, selecting and monitoring investment projects, diversifying risks, and allowing investment and production to be carried out in the most productive scale and time...
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You can‘t always get what you want (where you want it) : cross-border effects of the US money market fund reform
Fricke, Daniel; Greppmair, Stefan; Paludkiewicz, Karol - 2022
This paper documents significant cross-border effects of the 2014 US money market fund (MMF) reform on MMFs in the euro area. As US-based prime MMFs became less money-like due to the reform, euro area-based prime MMFs received large inflows from foreign investors. These cross-border flows were...
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Contingent convertible bonds and the stability of bank funding : the case of partial writedown
Bleich, Dirk - 2014
This paper adds to the growing body of literature on the design of Contingent Convertible Bonds (CoCos). We discuss how the design of the loss absorption mechanism affects the stability of bank funding and distinguish between Conversion-to-Equity (CE) CoCos, Principal WriteDown (PWD) CoCos with...
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CDS market structure and bond spreads
Bilan, Andrada; Gündüz, Yalın - 2022
We study the response of bond spreads to a liquidity supply shock in the credit default swap (CDS) market. Our identification strategy exploits the exogenous exit of a large dealer from the single-name CDS market as well as granular data on CDS transactions and bond portfolio holdings of German...
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Liquidating bankers' acceptances : international crisis, doctrinal conflict and American exceptionalism in the Federal Reserve 1913-1932
Adam, Marc Christopher - 2020
This paper seeks to explain the collapse of the market for bankers' acceptances between 1931 and 1932 by tracing the doctrinal foundations of Federal Reserve policy and regulations back to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. I argue that a determinant of the collapse of the market was Carter Glass'...
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Spin doctors : an experiment on vague disclosure
Deversi, Marvin; Ispano, Alessandro; Schwardmann, Peter - 2021
Unfavorable news are often delivered under the disguise of vagueness. Our theory-driven laboratory experiment investigates this strategic use of vagueness in voluntary disclosure and asks whether there is scope for policy to improve information transmission. We find that vagueness is profitably...
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