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The impact of public guarantees on bank risk taking

Gropp, Reint; Gruendl, Christian; Guettler, Andre - 2010

In 2001, government guarantees for savings banks in Germany were removed following a law suit. We use this natural experiment to examine the effect of government guarantees on bank risk taking, using a large data set of matched bank/borrower information. The results suggest that banks whose...

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The stock market reaction to the 2005 non-tradable share reform in China

Beltratti, Andrea; Bortolotti, Bernardo; Caccavaio, Marianna - 2011

During 2005-2006, the Chinese government implemented a reform aimed at eliminating the so-called non-tradable shares (NTS), shares typically held by the State or by politically connected institutional investors that were issued at the early stage of financial market development. Our analysis,...

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Debt bias in corporate taxation and the costs of banking crises in the EU

Langedijk, Sven - 2014

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Bank mergers, competition and liquidity

Carletti, Elena; Hartmann, Philipp; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2003

We model the impact of bank mergers on loan competition, banks' reserve holdings and aggregate liquidity. Banks compete in a differentiated loan market, hold reserves against liquidity shocks, and refinance in the interbank market. A merger creates an internal money market that induces financial...

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Finance and growth in the EU

De Ávila, Diego Romero - 2003

This paper analyses the link between finance and growth by studying the effect that the process of financial deregulation and harmonisation of banking laws at the EU level has brought about on growth over the last 40 years. Our main findings point to the existence of a positive long-run growth...

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The lender of last resort

Freixas, Xavier; Parigi, Bruno M.; Rochet, Jean-Charles - 2003

The classical Bagehotu0092s conception of a Lender of Last Resort (LOLR) that lends to illiquid banks has been criticized on two grounds: on the one hand, the distinction between insolvency and illiquidity is not clear cut; on the other a fully collateralized repo market allows Central Banks to...

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Deposit insurance, moral hazard and market monitoring

Gropp, Reint; Vesala, Jukka - 2004

The paper analyses the relationship between deposit insurance, debt-holder monitoring, and risk taking. In a stylised … banking model we show that deposit insurance may reduce moral hazard, if deposit insurance credibly leaves out non … deposit insurance may serve as a commitment device to limit the safety net and permit monitoring by uninsured subordinated …

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Cooperation in international banking supervision

Holthausen, Cornelia; Rønde, Thomas - 2004

This paper analyzes cooperation between sovereign national authorities in the supervision and regulation of a multinational bank. We take a political economy approach to regulation and assume that supervisors maximize the welfare of their own country. The communication between the supervisors is...

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Tax co-ordination in Europe: assessing the first years of the EU-Savings Taxation Directive

Hemmelgarn, Thomas - 2009

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Bank risk-taking, securitization, supervision and low interest rates

Maddaloni, Angela; Peydró, José-Luis - 2010

Using a unique dataset of the Euro area and the U.S. bank lending standards, we find that low (monetary policy) short-term interest rates soften standards, for household and corporate loans. This softening – especially for mortgages – is amplified by securitization activity, weak supervision...

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