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By reducing the costs of environmental protection, technological change is important for promoting green growth. This entails both the creation of new technologies and more widespread deployment of existing green technologies. This paper reviews the literature on environmentally friendly...
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-funded capital injections. However, on closer inspection the composition of bank capital shifted radically from one based on common …
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how they are resolved. Our analysis sheds new light on the conflict between micro-prudential bank regulation and …
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We investigate whether a bank's performance during the 1998 crisis, which was viewed at the time as the most dramatic … crisis since the Great Depression, predicts its performance during the recent financial crisis. One hypothesis is that a bank …. Another hypothesis is that a bank's poor experience in a crisis is tied to aspects of its business model that are persistent …
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The largest commercial bank stocks, ranked by total size of the balance sheet, have significantly lower risk …-adjusted returns than small- and medium-sized bank stocks, even though large banks are significantly more levered. We uncover a size … factor in the component of bank returns that is orthogonal to the standard risk factors, including small-minus-big, which has …
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During extreme financial crises, all of a sudden, the financial world that was once rife with profit opportunities for financial institutions (banks, for short) becomes exceedingly complex. Confusion and uncertainty follow, ravaging financial markets and triggering massive flight-to-quality...
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The paper elicits a mechanism by which private leverage choices exhibit strategic complementarities through the reaction of monetary policy. When everyone engages in maturity transformation, authorities have little choice but facilitating refinancing. In turn, refusing to adopt a risky balance...
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money relative to bank assets than nonbanking-center countries. This paper develops a stylized model of regulated bank …
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This paper investigates whether the diversity of activities conducted by financial institutionsinfluences their market valuations. We find that there is a diversification discount: The marketvalues financial conglomerates that engage in multiple activities, e.g., lending and non-lendingfinancial...
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We examine the effect of negative nominal interest rates on bank profitability and behavior using a cross-country panel …
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