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distorted the choices of financial intermediaries ex-ante (inducing them to rely too much and too quickly on liquidity for …
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First externalities risk due to the size of the companies or the principle that large companies are also at risk of … for savers and investors are taken. If we accept-so conservatively that the risk exposure of a company is limited by its … risk foreseeable losses with positive externalities, then, what can happen with negative derivatives risk capital …
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-based regulatory and risk-based supervisory approaches. The recent crisis has shown, on the one hand, that financial mitigations (i … reforms. In the European Union, the new European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) and, above all, the three new European Supervisory …
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We identify the tension between dueling expectations of financial institutions as value-maximizing entities that also serve the public interest. We highlight the importance of information in addressing the public desire for banks to be safe yet innovative. Regulators can choose several...
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A financial crisis leads to a debt overhang in the banking sector and subsequently to a credit crunch. In most cases, it is not possible to remedy this situation without economic policy measures. In this study, we use a uniform framework to analyze how banks in a crisis situation can be...
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This study investigates the associations among bank risk-taking, ownership concentration, and the recently proposed … standard for capital stability (Basel III). Consistent with theory, the evidence shows that a rise in ownership concentration … by one standard deviation increases the extent of risk-taking by as much as 6–8%. Although Basel III does not start …
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This article analyzes the manifold situations in which the efficient-market hypothesis (EMH) has influenced—or has failed to influence—federal securities regulation and state corporate law, and the prospective roles for the EMH in these contexts. In federal securities regulation, the EMH has...
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There is disagreement about whether large and complex financial institutions should be allowed to use US bankruptcy law to reorganise when they get into financial difficulty. We look at the events surrounding the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy filing for lessons as to whether bankruptcy law could be...
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This paper presents a flexible, lattice-based structural credit risk model that uses equity market information and a … detailed depiction of a financial institution’s liability structure to analyze default risk. The model is applied to examine … diagnostic tool for the early detection of financial distress and a prescriptive tool for addressing the sources of risk in large …
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