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This paper explores the reasons why an increasing number of firms in continental Europe are unifying their shares into a single class, and analyzes the consequences of this restructuring. Interestingly, recent changes in corporate governance environment have created a situation when the reasons...
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particular, we investigate the extent to which a spillover of risk among hedge funds through redemptions and failures of other … funds has affected the probability of fund failure. We find that risk spillover is significantly related to the failure … within the same investment style are adversely affected through both channels of risk spillover. In addition, we find that …
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The failure of trade economists to anticipate the extreme drop in trade post Lehman Brothers bankruptcy suggests that the behavior of trade in exceptional circumstances may still be poorly understood. This paper explores whether uncertainty shocks have explanatory power for movements in trade....
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This paper studies the impact of cyclical systemic risk on future bank profitability for a large representative panel … risk predict large drops in the average bank-level return on assets (ROA) with a lead time of 3-5 years. Based on quantile … local projections we further show that the negative impact of cyclical systemic risk on the left tail of the future bank …
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This paper addresses the trade-off between additional loss-absorbing capacity and potentially higher bank risk … increase their risk-taking. This increase in risk-taking however, should be more than outweighed by the benefits of higher …
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I study rollover risk in the wholesale funding market when intermediaries can hold liquidity ex-ante and are subject to …
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The paper investigates small business lending as an information problem. It models the effects of information asymmetries within the bank combined with fixed wages. Two kinds of inefficiencies arise in equilibrium: the credit officer either sometimes shirks or he is occasionally fired. In both...
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Both in the United States and in the Euro area, bank supervision is the joint responsibility of local and central/federal supervisors. I study how such a system can optimally balance the lower inspection costs of local supervisors with the ability of the central level to internalize cross-border...
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Both in the United States and in the Euro area, bank supervision is the joint responsibility of local and central/federal supervisors. I study how such a system can optimally balance the lower inspection costs of local supervisors with the ability of the central level to internalize cross-border...
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Credit risk models used in quantitative risk management treat credit risk analysis conceptually like a single person … decision problem. From this perspective an exogenous source of risk drives the fundamental parameters of credit risk … of many market participants: They are endogenous. We develop a general equilibrium model with endogenous credit risk that …
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