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The convention in calculating trading costs in corporate bond markets is to assume that dealers provide liquidity to non-dealers (customers) and calculate average bid-ask spreads that customers pay dealers. We show that customers often provide liquidity in corporate bond markets, and thus,...
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The Federal Reserve's Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) requires large bank holding companies (BHCs) to … median bank range from the 90th percentile to above the 99th percentile of the operational loss distribution …
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, in the context of the eurozone periphery, the increase in domestic government bond holdings, the reduction of bank credit …
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This paper proposes an alternative framework to set banks’ operational risk capital, which allows for forward-looking assessments and limits gaming opportunities by relying on an incentive-compatible mechanism. This approach would improve upon the vulnerability to gaming of the AMA and...
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novel variants as well. In an empirical application, we backtest forecast distributions for the overnight P&L of ten bank …
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Operational risk models, such as the loss distribution approach, frequently use past internal losses to forecast operational loss exposure. However, the ability of past losses to predict exposure, particularly tail exposure, has not been thoroughly examined in the literature. In this paper, we...
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This paper studies what determines whether federal and state supervisors examine state banks independently or together. The results suggest that supervisors coordinate examinations in order to support states with lower budgets and capabilities and more banks to supervise. I find that states with...
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We exploit variation in commercial bank capital ratios across states to identify the impact of commercial bank balance … indicate a lack of substitutes for bank funding both in the short and long run. This lack of substitutes implies a notable … highlight the potential effects that bank balance sheet pressures, for example, from tightening capital adequacy standards, such …
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the banks' trading revenues and help to explain the bank VaR performance results. While highly conservative in the pre …-crisis period, bank VaR exceedances were excessive and clustered in the crisis period. All benchmark VaRs were more accurate in the …-period market conditions. Despite their weaker performance, the bank VaRs exhibited greater predictive power for a measure of …
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change charters, an effect that is large for both national and state charters. In addition, controlling for bank ratings …
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