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To be effective, programs of regulatory reform must address the incentive conflicts that intensify financial risk-taking and undermine government insolvency detection and crisis management. Subsidies to risk taking that large institutions extract from the financial safety net encourage managers...
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To be effective, programs of regulatory reform must address the incentive conflicts that intensify financial risk-taking and undermine government insolvency detection and crisis management. Subsidies to risk taking that large institutions extract from the financial safety net encourage managers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070578
This paper models and estimates ex ante safety-net benefits at a sample of large banks in US and Europe during 2003-2008. Our results suggest that difficult-to-fail and unwind (DFU) banks enjoyed substantially higher ex ante benefits than other institutions. Safety-net benefits prove...
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to individual banks in the Merton tradition (1974) as a combination put option for the deep tail of bank losses and a … knock-in stop-loss call on bank assets. This model expresses the value of taxpayer loss exposure from a string of defaults … the face value of the debt of the entire sector. We conceive of an individual bank's systemic risk as its contribution to …
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to individual banks in the Merton tradition (1974) as a combination put option for the deep tail of bank losses and a … knock-in stop-loss call on bank assets. This model expresses the value of taxpayer loss exposure from a string of defaults … the face value of the debt of the entire sector. We conceive of an individual bank's systemic risk as its contribution to …
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This paper investigates the links between regulatory arbitrage, financial instability, and taxpayer loss exposures. We model and estimate ex ante safety-net benefits from increased leverage and asset volatility at a sample of large banks in US and Europe during 2003-2008. Hypothesis tests...
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In this paper we model and estimate ex ante safety-net benefits at a sample of large banks in US and Europe during 2003-2008. Our results suggest that difficult-to-fail and unwind (DFU) banks enjoyed substantially higher ex ante benefits than other institutions. Safety-net benefits prove...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122575
, but increases in bank bargaining power could increase funding costs and/or decrease capital market access. Customers may … increased bank bargaining power, especially vis-a-vis credit-constrained customers for whom safety-net subsidies are unlikely to …
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