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Disclosure is widely regarded as a necessary condition for market discipline in a modern financial sector. However, the … determinants of disclosure decisions are still unknown, particularly among banks. This paper investigates the determinants of … disclosure by Japanese Shinkin banks in 1996 and 1997. This period is unique because disclosure of non-performing loans was …
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This paper examines the potential distortion of prices in the CDS market caused by too-big-to-fail. Overall, we find evidence for market discipline in the CDS market. However, CDS prices are distorted due to a size effect which arises when investors expect a public bail-out as a result of...
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This paper analyzes the influence of market discipline on the risk-taking incentives of banks. It is shown that market discipline reduces risk if banks can credibly commit to a given level of risk before the interest rate on deposits is set. If, however, the bank can readjust the level of risk...
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[...]This paper aims to fill that gap by providing a simpleframework for analyzing the interactions between the threepillars of Basel II. We start by offering a critical assessment ofthe academic literature on the three pillars,5 and argue thatnone of the existing models allows for a...
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[...]This paper aims to ascertain the quality (that is, thepredictive power and prediction errors) of two marketindicators: the distance to default and the subordinated debtspread. Previous work has established that banks’ marketprices reflect contemporaneous information about bank riskin the...
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