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Risk Management in Financial Institutions
Rampini, Adriano A. - 2019
We study risk management in financial institutions using data on hedging of interest rate and foreign exchange risk. We find strong evidence that institutions with higher net worth hedge more, controlling for risk exposures, both across institutions and within institutions over time. For...
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The Risks of Financial Institutions
Stulz, René M. - 2009
on solvent banks leading to bank panics. But financial crises of the last two decades have not fit the mold. A new …
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Governance, Risk Management, and Risk-Taking in Banks
Stulz, René M. - 2014
, which are risks that have an ex ante private reward for the bank on a stand-alone basis, and bad risks, which do not have … such a reward. A well-governed bank takes the amount of risk that maximizes shareholder wealth subject to constraints … cost effective to do so. The role of risk management in such a bank is not to reduce the bank's total risk per se. It is to …
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Financial Risk Measurement for Financial Risk Management
Andersen, Torben G. - 2012
Current practice largely follows restrictive approaches to market risk measurement, such as historical simulation or RiskMetrics. In contrast, we propose flexible methods that exploit recent developments in financial econometrics and are likely to produce more accurate risk assessments, treating...
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Bailouts, the Incentive to Manage Risk, and Financial Crises
Panageas, Stavros - 2010
A firm's termination leads to bankruptcy costs. This may create an incentive for outside stakeholders or the firm's debtholders to bail out the firm as bankruptcy looms. Because of this implicit guarantee, firm shareholders have an incentive to increase volatility in order to exploit the...
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The Risk-Adjusted Cost of Financial Distress
Almeida, Heitor - 2010
In this paper we argue that risk-adjustment matters for the valuation of financial distress costs, since financial distress is more likely to happen in bad times. Systematic distress risk implies that the risk-adjusted probability of financial distress is larger than the historical probability....
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Risk Bearing, Implicit Financial Services and Specialization in the Financial Industry
Wang, J. Christina - 2009
This paper makes three points regarding the proper measurement of the output of financial intermediaries. Two of them concern the measurement of nominal financial output, especially banking output. First, we show that, to impute the nominal value of implicitly priced financial output, it is...
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Firms’ Management of Infrequent Shocks
Collier, Benjamin - 2016
We examine businesses' financial management of a rare, severe event using detailed firm-level data collected following Hurricane Sandy in the New York area. Credit played a prominent role in financing recovery; more negatively affected firms took on debt because of Sandy (38%) than received...
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Are We Approaching an Economic Singularity? Information Technology and the Future of Economic Growth
Nordhaus, William D. - 2015
What are the prospects for long-run economic growth? The present study looks at a recently launched hypothesis, which I label Singularity. The idea here is that rapid growth in computation and artificial intelligence will cross some boundary or Singularity after which economic growth will...
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The Productivity J-Curve : How Intangibles Complement General Purpose Technologies
Brynjolfsson, Erik - 2018
General purpose technologies (GPTs) such as AI enable and require significant complementary investments, including co-invention of new processes, products, business models and human capital. These complementary investments are often intangible and poorly measured in the national accounts, even...
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