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On October 26, 2008, Porsche announced a largely unexpected domination plan for Volkswagen. The resulting short squeeze in Volkswagen's stock briefly made it the most valuable listed company in the world. We argue that this was a manipulation designed to save Porsche from insolvency and the...
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China's shadow banking has been rising rapidly in the last decade, mainly driven by regulations for banks, the Fiscal Stimulus Plan in 2008, and credit constraints in restrictive industries. This sector has continued growing although the regulators repeatedly attempted to impose new regulations...
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In this paper we study the intra-group transactions between the parent bank and its foreign subsidiaries in European … subsidiary banks were large by assets in some of the member states the related party transactions with the parent bank created a … subsidiaries. We suggest improvements in governance as well greater disclosure of related party transactions in bank holding …
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In a model with bankruptcy costs and segmented deposit and equity markets, we endogenize the cost of equity and deposit finance for banks. Despite risk neutrality, equity capital earns a higher expected return than direct investment in risky assets. Banks hold positive capital to reduce...
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banking sector and the stock market during both bank crises and market crashes, with the corporate bond market moving in the … same direction as bank credit. However, the results are significant for countries with market-based financial systems but … not for countries with bank-based financial systems. Emerging markets have mainly bank-based financial systems, which may …
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during both bank crises and market crashes, with the bond market moving the same direction as bank credit. The result …, however, is significant for market-based countries but not significant for bank-based countries. As emerging markets are … mainly bank-based it may provide an explanation why it takes more time for them to recover from economic downturn after a …
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This paper identifies two types of market failures. The first concerns a coordination problem associated with panics. The problem in analysing this type of market failure from a policy perspective is that there is no widely accepted method for selecting equilibria. The second market failure...
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This introduces the symposium on financial economics.
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if the central bank accommodates the demands of the private sector for fiat money. Price level variations allow full … (bank-specific) return risks cannot be shared using monetary policy alone as real transfers are needed. …
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five areas where new theories are needed. These are asset price bubbles, central bank checks and balances, global …
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