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The Determinants of Capital Structure: Some Evidence from Banks
Heider, Florian; Gropp, Reint E. - 2008
bank. The results suggest that capital requirements may only be of second-order importance for banks? capital structures …
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The ECB and IMF indicators for the macro-prudential analysis of the banking sector: a comparison of the two approaches
Agresti, Anna Maria; Baudino, Patrizia; Poloni, Paolo - 2008
countries. The European Central Bank (ECB), jointly with the Banking Supervision Committee (BSC), has an interest in monitoring …
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Insolvency in selected OECD countries: Outcomes and regulations
Osterkamp, Rigmar - In: CESifo DICE Report 04 (2006) 1, pp. 27-33
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Zur Reform der Einlagensicherung in Weißrussland - Kritische Analyse und Vergleich mit dem Deutschen Einlagensicherungssystem
Minuk, Olga; Rossaro, Fabiana; Walther, Ursula - 2005
Der aktuell diskutierte Gesetzentwurf für eine Reform der Einlagensicherung in Weißrussland verfolgt das Hauptziel, mehr Sparmittel der Bevölkerung für das planwirtschaftliche Wirtschaftssystem verfügbar zu machen. Bei einer nicht passgenau auf die Landessituation abgestimmten Ausgestaltung...
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Estimating asset correlations from stock prices or default rates: which method is superior?
Düllmann, Klaus; Kunisch, Michael; Küll, Jonathan - 2008
This paper sets out to help explain why estimates of asset correlations based on equity prices tend to be considerably higher than estimates based on default rates. Resolving this empirical puzzle is highly important because, firstly, asset correlations are a key driver of credit risk and,...
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From soft and hard-nosed bankers: bank lending strategies and the survival of financially distressed firms
Höwer, Daniel - 2009
Do private banks act as hard-nosed bankers when firms get financially distressed compared to public banks that have the mandate to support regional economy? For German firms in the period 2000-2005, I find that the probability of leaving the market after financial distress is higher for firms...
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Genügend Widerstandskraft? Immobilienfinanzierung und Haushaltsverschuldung in Deutschland, Großbritannien, den Niederlanden und den USA
Badunenko, Oleg; Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 78 (2009) 1, pp. 127-142
Die vorliegende Studie zielt auf die Einschätzung der ökonomischen Stabilität der Haushalte in Deutschland ab. Ausgehend von der Betrachtung der unterschiedlichen Immobilienfinanzierungsregime wird anhand aggregierter und disaggregierter Haushaltsdaten die wirtschaftliche und finanzielle...
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Bank capital ratios across countries: Why do they vary?
Brewer, Elijah; Kaufman, George G.; Wall, Larry D. - 2008
This paper extends the literature on bank capital structure by modeling capital structure as a function of important … public policy and bank regulatory characteristics of the home country, as well as of bank-specific variables, country …. The results indicate that bank capital ratios are significantly affected in the hypothesized directions by most of the …
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Do competition and ownership matter? Evidence from local public transport in Europe
Boitani, Andrea; Nicolini, Marcella; Scarpa, Carlo - 2010
This paper investigates how the ownership and the procedure for the selection of firms operating in the local public transport sector affect their productivity. In order to compare different institutional regimes, we carry out a comparative analysis of 72 companies operating in large European...
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The execution of monetary policy: A tale of two central banks
Bartolini, Leonardo; Prati, Alessandro - 2003
The Eurosystem and the U.S. Federal Reserve System follow quite different approaches to the execution of monetary policy. The former institution adopts a hands-off approach that largely delegates to depository institutions the task of stabilizing their own liquidity at high frequency. The latter...
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