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Managerial Incentives and the Efficiency of Capital Structure in U.S. Commercial Banking
Hughes, Joseph P.; Lang, William W.; Moon, Choon-Geol; … - 2004
-sectional data on publicly traded, highest-level U.S. bank holding companies, we find empirical evidence of Marcus? proposition (1984 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263221
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Executive Compensation and Competition in the Banking and Financial Sectors
Guadalupe, Maria; Cuñat, Vicente - 2004
This paper studies the effect of product market competition on the compensation packages that firms offer to their executives and in particular its impact on the sensitivity of pay to performance. To measure the effect of competition we use two different identification strategies on a panel of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272722
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Structures and Trends in German Banking
Koetter, Michael; Nestmann, Thorsten; Stolz, Stéphanie; … - 2004
In this paper, we investigate the claim that German banks are special compared to banks in other industrialised economies. We show that banks are of particular importance to the German economy?as financial intermediary, as lender to the corporate sector, and as part of the corporate governance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260503
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Bank mergers, competition and liquidity
Carletti, Elena; Hartmann, Philipp; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604338
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Hedging with Credit Derivatives and its Strategic Role in Banking Competition
Pausch, Thilo; Schweimayer, Gerhard - 2004
The tremendous growth of markets for credit derivatives since the mid 1990's has raised questions regarding the role of these instruments in the banking in- dustry which is heavily exposed to credit risk. However, while recent literature mainly focused on pricing and optimal decisions regarding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263017
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The German banking system and the global financial crisis: Causes, developments and policy responses
Bleuel, Hans-H. - 2009
Germany's banking sector has been severely hit by the global financial crisis. In a German context as of February, 2009, this paper reviews briefly the structure of the banking industry, quantifies effects of the crisis on banks and surveys responses of economic policy. It is argued that policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266115
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Will video kill the radio star? Digitalisation and the future of banking
Beck, Thorsten; Cecchetti, Stephen G.; Grothe, Magdalena; … - 2022
The contribution of financial and non-financial risks to the overall level of risk in the system depends on the current state of the EU banking system (which, in the aggregate and compared with banking sectors in other major advanced economies, cannot be characterised as strong) and how...
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Banking in Africa: financing transformation amid uncertainty
2020
In its fifth edition, this report focuses on recent developments in Africa's banking sectors and the policy options for all stakeholders. The study of banking sectors across all African sub-regions includes the results of the EIB survey of banking groups operating in Africa. Three thematic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012511365
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Regulation, credit risk transfer, and bank lending
Pausch, Thilo; Welzel, Peter - 2011
behavior and risk sensitivity of a risk-neutral bank. The bank is exposed to credit risk and may use credit default swaps (CDS …) for hedging purposes. Regulation is found to induce the risk-neutral bank to behave in a more risk-sensitive way: Compared …. Under the Substitution Approach in Basel II (and III) a risk-neutral bank will over-, fully or under-hedge its total …
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The role of securitization in mortgage renegotiation
Agarwal, Sumit; Amromin, Gene; Ben-David, Itzhak; … - 2011
% of the U.S. mortgage market. Exploiting within-servicer variation in these data, we find that bank-held loans are 26% to …, modifications of bank-held loans are more efficient: conditional on a modification, bank-held loans have lower post …
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