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We study the political economy of bank capital regulation from a positive and normative perspective. In a general … politicians. We show that bankers and politicians agree on lobbying contributions and capital regulation that renders banks … capital regulation standards from international agreements eliminate lobbying incentives, yielding an efficient and fair …
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We examine the coexistence of banks and financial markets, studyinga credit market where the qualities of investment projects are notobservable and the investment decisions of entrepreneurs are not contractible...
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The article analyses the risk weights of the IRB approaches as suggested by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in January 2001. It is shown that the risk weight formulas can be considerably simplified to an elementary formula which has become a part of later suggestions of the Basel...
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We examine the coexistence of banks and financial markets, studying a credit market where the qualities of investment projects are not observable and the investment decisions of entrepreneurs are not contractible. Standard banks can alleviate moral-hazard problems by securing a portion of a...
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if the permissible types of contracts are limited by regulation resembling the separation of investment and commercial …
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