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Risk-taking by financial institutions is widely regarded as the one of the causes of the financial crisis. To reduce the probability of crises and internalize the costs of financial institution distress, policymakers have introduced bank levy. However, these regulations are different in all...
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Market risk reporting in banking has assumed such importance during the last decade. The purpose of this paper is to provide a methodology to evaluate the qualitative and quantitative profiles of the market risk disclosure in banking. We propose a hybrid methodology to assess whether or not...
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We empirically examine the Capital Purchase Program (CPP) used by the US gov- ernment to bail out distressed banks with equity infusions during the Great Recession. We find strong evidence that a feature of the CPP – the government’s ability to ap- point independent directors on the board of...
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We empirically examine the Capital Purchase Program (CPP) used by the US government to bail out distressed banks with equity infusions during the Great Recession. We find strong evidence that a feature of the CPP - the government's ability to appoint independent directors on the board of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012643917
Policymakers introduce bank levies (BLs) to reduce the probability of crises. In this study, we evaluate the effects of the Hungarian and German BLs implemented in 2010 and 2011, respectively, on the banks' risk-taking behavior. Our analysis compares two completely different BL designs. The...
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This work is part of the literature that recognizes the crucial role of an ethical evaluation in the financial sector and investigates the aspects related to the social and environmental impact of economic activities. Those must be strictly complementary to a traditional evaluation, which cannot...
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This work is part of the literature that recognizes the crucial role of an ethical evaluation in the financial sector and investigates the aspects related to the social and environmental impact of economic activities. Those must be strictly complementary to a traditional evaluation, which cannot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014257951
Prior research suggests that trust plays an important role for individuals' participation in stock markets. This paper … focuses on potential customers in retail banking markets and empirically investigates their trust in foreign banks and … in India are less likely to trust foreign banks with their money than Indian private banks. However, our results also …
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Prior research suggests that trust plays an important role in an individual's decision to participate in stock markets …. This paper focuses on potential customers in retail banking markets and empirically investigates their trust in foreign … banking customers in India are less likely to trust foreign banks with their money than private Indian banks. However, our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539928
This paper is structured in three main parts. The first part, consisting of the first four chapters, provides a brief comparison of the Portuguese and Czech banking sectors and describes the major modifications that they have suffered over the 20th and 21st Centuries, including the impact of the...
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