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March madness in Wall Street : (what) does the market learn from stress tests?
Fernandes, Marcelo; Igan, Deniz; Pinheiro, Marcelo - 2015
and uncertainty indicators, and bank activities. The evidence we present supports the notion that there is important new …
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Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission (FSLRC) & financial sector regulation in India
Bhagwati, Jaimini; Khan, M. Shuheb; Bogathi, … - 2016
The Financial Sector Reforms Commission (FSLRC) which was set up in 2011 by the Ministry of Finance was mandated to study existing legislation and financial sector regulatory practices in India and to propose improvements. The FSLRC submitted its report in 2013 and four of its members recorded...
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Smart development banks
Fernández Arias, Eduardo; Hausmann, Ricardo; Panizza, Ugo - 2019
The conventional paradigm about development banks is that these institutions exist to target well-identified market failures. However, market failures are not directly observable and can only be ascertained with a suitable learning process. Hence, the question is how do the policymakers know...
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The effects of margin changes on commodity futures markets
Daskalaki, Charoula; Skiadopoulos, George - 2014 - This draft: 24 October 2014
In light of the recently passed 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, we assess the effect of margin changes on prices, the risk-sharing between speculators and hedgers, and the price stability of 20 commodity futures markets. We find that margin increases decrease the rate at which prices change, yet they...
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Capital requirements, risk-taking and welfare in a growing economy
Agénor, Pierre-Richard; Silva, Luiz A. Pereira da - 2017
between a safe technology and a risky (but socially inefficient) technology, and bank risk-taking is endogenous. Setting the …
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The importance of leasing for SME finance
Kraemer-Eis, Helmut; Lang, Frank - 2012
that bank loans and overdrafts are the most widespread debt financing methods for SMEs, but that alternative sources like …
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A new capital regulation for large financial institutions
Hart, Oliver D.; Zingales, Luigi - 2009
We design a new, implementable capital requirement for large financial institutions (LFIs) that are too big to fail. Our mechanism mimics the operation of margin accounts. To ensure that LFIs do not default on either their deposits or their derivative contracts, we require that they maintain an...
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Bank panics and scale economies
Andolfatto, David; Nosal, Ed - 2017
A bank panic is an expectation-driven redemption event that results in a self-fulfilling prophecy of losses on demand … surprisingly di¢ cult to generate bank panic equilibria if one allows for a plausible degree of contractual flexibility. A common … minimum scale requirement. With this simple and empirically-plausible modification to the standard model, we find that bank …
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Reform of the European Union financial supervisory and regulatory architecture and its implications for Asia
Darvas, Zsolt M.; Schoenmaker, Dirk; Véron, Nicolas - 2016
European Union countries offer a unique experience of financial regulatory and supervisory integration, complementing various other European integration efforts following the second world war. Financial regulatory and supervisory integration was a very slow process before 2008, despite...
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Strategic default in financial networks
Allouch, Nizar; Jalloul, Maya - 2018
This paper investigates a model of strategic interactions in financial networks, where the decision by one agent on whether or not to default impacts the incentives of other agents to escape default. Agents' payoffs are determined by the clearing mechanism introduced in the seminal contribution...
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