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Background considerations to a regulation of the US financial system: third time a charm? Or strike three?
Kregel, Jan - 2009
U.S. financial regulation has traditionally made functional and institutional regulation roughly equivalent. However, the gradual shift away from Glass-Steagall and the introduction of the Financial Modernization Act (FMA) generated a disorderly mix of functions and products across institutions,...
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Financial regulation, integration and synchronization of economic activity
Kalemli-Özcan, Sebnem; Papaioannou, Elias; Peydró, … - 2010
We investigate the effect of financial integration on the degree of international business cycle synchronization. For identfication, we use a confidential database on banks' bilateral exposure over the past three decades and employ a novel bilateral country-pair panel instrumental vari- ables...
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Finance and Efficiency: Do Bank Branching Regulations Matter?
Acharya, Viral V.; Imbs, Jean; Sturgess, Jason - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2007
ratios- following intra- and (particularly) interstate liberalization of bank branching restrictions. This effect arises …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005858336
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Una evaluación de la competencia en el sector bancario de Argentina: Evidencia empírica con datos a nivel de banco
González Padilla, Héctor Gustavo - 2010
The profit-maximizing and oligopoly bank model developed by Bresnahan and Lau allows determining the degree of market … power held by an average bank. The equilibrium price equation includes a mark up, which is not used in the case of perfect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325100
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International Integration, Common Exposure and Systemic Risk in the Banking Sector: An Empirical Investigation
Allenspach, Nicole; Monnin, Pierre - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2007
This paper analyzes the impact of ongoing financial integration and increase in crossborder activities on banks’ common exposure to shocks and on banking sector systemic risk. For that, we study the evolution of correlations between large international banks’ asset-to-debt ratios over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005858331
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Explaining bank failures in the United States: The role of self-fulfilling prophecies, systemic risk, banking regulation, and contagion
Herger, Nils - 2008
Using count data on the number of bank failures in US states during the 1960 to 2006 period, this paper endeavors to … instruments to absorb potential endogeneity between the number of bank failures and economic and regulatory conditions. Results … suggest that bank failures are not merely self-fulfilling prophecies but relate systematically to inflation as well as to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430078
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Is stricter regulation of incentive compensation the missing piece?
Wall, Larry D. - 2019
to acceptable levels. Unfortunately, this review of the literatures on the relationship of risk to bank chief operating … officer and bank employee compensation suggest both have some potential but that significant concerns remain in both cases. At …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030288
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The federal home loan bank system: The lender of next-to-last resort?
Ashcraft, Adam; Bech, Morten L.; Frame, W. Scott - 2009
The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System is a large, complex, and understudied government-sponsored liquidity facility … provides evidence about the uses of these funds by their bank and thrift members. We then identify the trade-offs faced by FHLB …
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Capital Adequacy Regime in India: An Overview
Sarma, Mandira; Nikaido, Yuko - 2007
In this paper we present an analytical review of the capital adequacy regime and the present state of capital to risk-weighted asset ratio (CRAR) of the banking sector in India. In the current regime of Basel I, Indian banking system is performing reasonably well, with an average CRAR of about...
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The interaction between macroprudential and monetary policies: The cases of Norway and Sweden
Cao, Jin; Dinger, Valeriya; Grodecka-Messi, Anna; … - 2020
detailed bank-level data we show how Norwegian and Swedish banks' lending reacts to monetary policy surprises arising abroad …
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