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Limited liability and asymmetric information between an investment bank and its lenders provide an incentive for a bank …
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Under the New Basel Accord bank capital adequacy rules (Pillar 1) are substantially revised but the introduction of two …
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This paper models a firm's rollover risk generated by conflict of interest between debt and equity holders. When the firm faces losses in rolling over its maturing debt, its equity holders are willing to absorb the losses only if the option value of keeping the firm alive justifies the cost of...
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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...
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measures of the asset and liability characteristics of the bank; a second employs these characteristics and other data taken … from annual reports; a third model adds the history of the behavior of the price at the bank's common stock. The central … estimated in this way can serve a useful function in monitoring bank risk. Further, the predictive significance of each variable …
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Discussions of financial risk often fail to distinguish between risks that are consciously borne and those that are not. To understand the breeding conditions for financial crises the prime focus of concern should not be simply on large risk-taking per se, but on the unintended, or unanticipated...
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typical bank loan maturities; (ii) incorporate bank-lending responses to climate risks; (iii) assess the adequacy of climate …
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monetary policy. The theory unifies an endogenous supply of illiquid local loans and risk-sharing among subsidiaries of bank …
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efficiently with cross-border issues. To track and control insolvency risk within and across any set of countries, officials must …
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, including any effects on the cost of capital and in turn the rates available to borrowers. Standard theory predicts that, in …
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