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Over the last three decades there has been a dramatic increase in the size of the financial sector and in the compensation of financial executives. This increase has been associated with greater risk-taking and the use of more complex financial instruments. Parallel to this trend, the...
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sensitivity of deposit flows to bank performance. The fragility is stronger when the aggregate conditions in the banking system …
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. In a financial crisis bank health is significantly damaged. Post-crisis regulatory changes have aimed at restoring bank … health, but measuring bank health by Tobin's Q, we find that the ill health of banks in the recent U.S. financial crisis and … by the state of the macro-economy. The results seem to suggest that bank regulatory changes may be repressive …
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Though overall bank performance from July 2007 to December 2008 was the worst since at least the Great Depression … performance of banks during the credit crisis. More specifically, we investigate whether bank performance is related to bank …-level governance, country-level governance, country-level regulation, and bank balance sheet and profitability characteristics before …
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pre-crisis data, in order to study the impact of government guarantees on bank performance during a crisis. Using bank … private sector bank branches in districts with greater exposure to state-owned banks experienced deposit withdrawals and … shortening of deposit maturity. In contrast, nearby vulnerable state-owned bank branches grew their deposit base and increased …
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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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Mutual fund managers can outperform the market by picking stocks or timing the market successfully. Previous work has estimated picking and timing skill, assuming that each manager is endowed with a fixed amount of each and found some evidence of picking skills and little evidence of timing...
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of bank failures and the need for counter-cyclical fiscal and monetary policy. The Great Recession has brought to the …
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Motivated by growing concerns about the risks and instability of China's financial system, this article reviews several commonly perceived financial risks and discusses their roots in China's politico-economic institutions. We emphasize the need to evaluate these risks within China's unique...
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We present a model of flight to quality episodes that emphasizes financial system risk and the Knightian uncertainty surrounding these episodes. In the model, agents are uncertain about the probability distribution of shocks in markets different from theirs, treating such uncertainty as...
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