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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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such dimensions are compressed or ignored, capital arbitrage activities by banks are likely to continue, leading to an …
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Bank risk-based capital (RBC) standards require banks to hold differing amounts of capital for different classes of … decomposes loan risk into term structure, default, and market risk. One implication of our findings is that although banks have …
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system. We substantiate this argument with three didactic findings: (1) commercial banks in general were prone to engage in … channeling risky entrusted loans; (2) shadow banking through entrusted lending masked small banks' exposure to balance …-sheet risks; and (3) two well-intended regulations and institutional asymmetry between large and small banks combined to give …
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Financial institutions have both investors and customers. Investors, such as those who invest in stocks and bonds or private/public-sector guarantors of institutions, expect an appropriate risk-adjusted return in exchange for the financing and risk-bearing that they provide. Customers of a...
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its response to that crisis (allowing weak banks to close) and the redoubling of regulatory efforts to promote market … discipline has played an important role in prudential regulation by encouraging proper risk management by banks. There is … substantial heterogeneity among banks in the interest rates they pay for debt and the rate of growth of their deposits, and that …
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compensation for the illiquidity investors will be subject to. We argue that banks can resolve these liquidity problems that arise … in direct lending. Banks enable depositors to withdraw at low cost, as well as buffer firms from the liquidity needs of …
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Banks' reluctance to repair their balance sheets, combined with deposit insurance and regulatory forbearance in … forbearance incentivizes banks to both retain risky loans and reject new good opportunities. With sufficient regulatory … forbearance, partially-insured banks act exactly as if they are fully insured. Stress tests certify that uninsured creditors will …
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) many large and complex banks voluntarily chose to have a risk committee before the Dodd-Frank Act forced bank holding …
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This paper reviews a specific group of recent publications by Black, Fama, Hall, and Greenfield and Yeager that (i) encourage the relaxation of government controls on the banking industry, (ii) emphasize the possibility of an economy in which most transactions are carried out through an...
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