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Mandatory financial information disclosure and credit ratings
Vanhaverbeke, Steven; Balsmeier, Benjamin; Doherr, Thorsten - 2022
When firms are forced to publicly disclose financial information, credit rating agencies are supposed to improve their risk assessments. Theory predicts such an information quality effect but also an adverse reputational concerns effect because credit analysts may become increasingly concerned...
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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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Arbitraging the Basel securitization framework : evidence from German ABS investment
Efing, Matthias - 2015
This paper provides evidence for regulatory arbitrage within the class of assetbacked securities (ABS) based on individual asset holding data of German banks. I find that those banks operating with tight regulatory constraints pick the securities with the highest yield and lowest collateral...
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R&D investment under financing constraints
Giebel, Marek; Kraft, Kornelius - 2020
This paper tests for the sensitivity of R&D to financing constraints conditional on restrictions in external financing. Financing constraints of firms are identified by an exogenously calculated rating index. Restrictions in external financing are determined by (i) the specific time period...
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Can European banks' country-by-country reports reveal profit shifting? : an analysis of the information content of EU banks' disclosures
Dutt, Verena K.; Nicolay, Katharina; Vay, Heiko; Voget, … - 2019
We create a novel database of hand-collected information from the country-by-country reports (CbCRs) of more than 100 multinational bank groups headquartered in the EU for 2014-2016. We compare this new dataset with information from Orbis and Bank Focus to assess in how far the new disclosure...
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Macro to the rescue? : an analysis of macroprudential instruments to regulate housing credit
Falter, Alexander - 2019
This paper builds a macro model with a financial sector and a housing market to understand the transmission and effects of macroprudential instruments addressing mortgage credit. The model compares the introduction of a loan-to-value ratio (LTV), a countercyclical capital buffer (CCyB)-style...
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System-wide and banks' internal stress tests : regulatory requirements and literature review
Pliszka, Kamil - 2021
This paper deals with both system-wide and banks' internal stress tests. For system-wide stress tests it describes the evolution over time, compares the stress test design in major jurisdictions, and discusses academic research. System-wide stress tests have gained in importance and nowadays...
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The joint dynamics of sovereign ratings and government bond yields
Shagi, Makram el-; Schweinitz, Gregor von - 2016
Can a negative shock to sovereign ratings invoke a vicious cycle of increasing government bond yields and further downgrades, ultimately pushing a country toward default? The narratives of public and political discussions, as well as of some widely cited papers, suggest this possibility. In this...
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Multinational banks in regulated markets : is financial integration desirable?
Haufler, Andreas; Wooton, Ian - 2018
We set up a two-country, regional model of trade in financial services. Competitive firms in each country manufacture non-traded consumer goods in an uncertain productive environment, borrowing funds from a bank in either the home or the foreign market. Duopolistic banks can choose their levels...
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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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