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This paper examines common regulation as cause of interbank contagion. Studies based on the correlation of bank assets … that banks have a common regulator. In our model, the failure of one bank can undermine the public’s confidence in the … forbearance to the initially failing bank in the hope that it - and hence other vulnerable banks - survives. By contrast, public …
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At the peak of the financial crisis in October 2008, the IASB amended IAS 39 to grant companies the option of abandoning fair value recognition for selected financial assets. Using a comprehensive global sample of publicly listed IFRS banks, we find that banks use the reclassification option to...
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We develop a simple model of banking regulation with two policy instruments: minimum capital requirements and supervision of domestic banks. The regulator faces a trade-off: high capital requirements cause a drop in the banks'; profitability, while strict supervision reduces the scope of...
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Using count data on the number of bank failures in US states during the 1960 to 2006 period, this paper endeavors to … instruments to absorb potential endogeneity between the number of bank failures and economic and regulatory conditions. Results … suggest that bank failures are not merely self-fulfilling prophecies but relate systematically to inflation as well as to …
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harder than any other country in the world. Ireland also suffered heavily, while Iceland came out from the crisis with the …
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The Regulation on the Single Supervisory Mechanism mandates the European Central Bank to exercise prudential … supervision on the banks located in the Euro area, whether directly by the Bank’s own services for the significant banks, or … instruments on Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive, the Regulations on a Single Resolution Mechanism and on Deposit Guarantee …
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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...
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In August 2007 the United Kingdom experienced its first bank run in over 140 years. Although Northern Rock was not a … particularly large bank (it was at the time ranked 7th in terms of assets) it was nevertheless a significant retail bank and a … outside the bank as depositors rushed to withdraw their deposits. There was always a fear that this could spark a systemic run …
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I review the state of the art of the academic theoretical and empirical literature on the potential trade-off between competition and stability in banking. There are two basic channels through which competition may increase instability: by exacerbating the coordination problem of...
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