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Basel Ii : A Contracting Perspective
Kane, Edward J. - 2010
Financial safety nets are incomplete social contracts that assign responsibility to various economic sectors for preventing, detecting, and paying for potentially crippling losses at financial institutions. This paper uses the theories of incomplete contracts and sequential bargaining to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760523
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Pillar 1 vs. Pillar 2 Under Risk Management
Schaefer, Stephen M. - 2012
Under the New Basel Accord bank capital adequacy rules (Pillar 1) are substantially revised but the introduction of two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755627
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Financial Dampening
Wieland, Johannes - 2016
monetary policy. The theory unifies an endogenous supply of illiquid local loans and risk-sharing among subsidiaries of bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995512
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Credit, Prices, and Crashes : Business Cycles with a Sudden Stop
Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2001
The 1990s emerging-markets crises were characterized by sudden reversals in inflows of foreign capital followed by unusually large declines in current account deficits, private expenditures, production, and prices of nontradable goods relative to tradables. This paper shows that these Sudden...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012787676
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Liquidity Requirements, Liquidity Choice and Financial Stability
Diamond, Douglas W. - 2016
We study a modification of the Diamond and Dybvig (1983) model in which the bank may hold a liquid asset, some … depositors see sunspots that could lead them to run, and all depositors have incomplete information about the bank's ability to … survive a run. The incomplete information means that the bank is not automatically incentivized to always hold enough liquid …
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Can the European Community Afford to Neglect the Need for More Accountable Safety-Net Management?
Kane, Edward J. - 2010
As financial institutions and markets transact more and more cross-border business, gaps and flaws in national safety nets become more consequential. Because citizens of host (home) countries may be made to pay for mistakes made in the home (host) country, Basel's lead-regulator paradigm...
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Confronting Divergent Interests in Cross-Country Regulatory Arrangements
Kane, Edward J. - 2021
Although nation-based systems of financial regulation constitute a second-best approach to global welfare maximization, treacherous accountability problems must be acknowledged and resolved before regulatory cooperation can deal fairly and efficiently with cross-border issues. To track and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225171
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Corporate Governance and Risk Management at Unprotected Banks : National Banks in the 1890s
Calomiris, Charles W. - 2014
Managers' incentives may conflict with those of shareholders or creditors, particularly at leveraged, opaque banks. Bankers may abuse their control rights to give themselves excessive salaries, favored access to credit, or to take excessive risks that benefit themselves at the expense of...
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A Note on Liquidity Risk Management
Brunnermeier, Markus K. - 2010
When a firm is unable to roll over its debt, it may have to seek more expensive sources of financing or even liquidate its assets. This paper provides a normative analysis of minimizing such rollover risk, through the optimal dynamic choice of the maturity structure of debt. The objective of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757874
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Bank Supervision, Regulation, and Instability During the Great Depression
Mitchener, Kris James - 2010
Even after controlling for local economic conditions, differences in state bank supervision and regulation contribute … toward explaining the large variation in state bank suspension rates across U.S. counties during the Great Depression. More … requirements had the opposite effect. States that endowed bank supervisors with the authority to liquidate banks minimized …
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