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cooperative banks, extending approaches that rely on information from the public equity market. We account for correlated losses … universe of Dutch banks and insurers. …
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We address the problem of regulating the size of banks' macroprudential capital buffers by using market-based estimates … systemic banks. First, a Distance-to-Default type measure relates a bank's default risk to its capital requirements. Second, a … correlation structure in the default dependencies between banks is estimated from co-movements in the single-name CDS spreads of …
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construct a model that can be estimated from high-frequency CDS data. This captures risks from publicly traded banks, privately … held institutions, and coöperative banks, extending approaches that rely on information from the public equity market only … banks where we find discrepancies between the capital adequacy of the largest contributors to systemic risk relative to less …
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Islamic strictures require investors to share risks with the entrepreneurs they finance. Sukuk (Islamic securities) come mostly in two varieties, musharakah (basically a joint venture agreement) and ijarah (more like an operational lease agreement). Yet defaults did happen, even in the case of...
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This paper investigates the stock returns and volatility size effects for firm performance in the Taiwan tourism industry, especially the impacts arising from the tourism policy reform that allowed mainland Chinese tourists to travel to Taiwan. Four conditional univariate GARCH models are used...
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Lawmakers have called for better stablecoin regulation, but authorities tend to have little control over the global operators of distributed ledgers that process stablecoin transactions. This chapter illustrates how peg deviations may occur when the issuer of a fiat-backed stablecoin loses its...
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We propose to pool alternative systemic risk rankings for financial institutions using the method of principal components. The resulting overall ranking is less affected by estimation uncertainty and model risk. We apply our methodology to disentangle the common signal and the idiosyncratic...
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We propose a new approach for estimating mutual fund performance that simultaneously controls for both factor exposure and firm characteristics. This double-adjusted alpha is motivated by the recent findings that traditional Fama-French style factor models do not fully adjust returns for the...
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Contemporary financial stochastic programs typically involve a trade-offbetween return and (downside)-risk. Using stochastic programming we characterize analytically (rather than numerically) the optimal decisions that follow from characteristic single-stage and multi-stage versions of such...
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Recent research reveals that hedge fund returns exhibit a range of different,possibly non-linear pay-off patterns. It is difficult to qualify all these patternssimultaneously as being rational in a traditional framework for optimal financial decisionmaking. In this paper we present a simple...
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