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makes banking inefficient. Better capitalized banks suffer fewer distortions in lending decisions and would perform better …
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This article examines the regulatory challenges raised by recent, overlooked changes in insurance markets that have led … to a functional convergence between insurance and the broader financial sector.The law literature on financial regulation … context of insurance, and does so by applying an analytical framework that distinguishes between two “boundary problems” that …
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Regulation may impact on financial risk taking by financial intermediaries by way of the decision-making process envisaged in the various possible legal structures set forth by the law. In Europe there are three different possible board structures: the one-tier board system, typical of the UK,...
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We assess the influence of competition and capital regulation on the stability of the banking system. We particularly … requirements can lead to more entry into banking, essentially by reducing the competitive strength of lower quality banks. We also ….g. one country that opens up its banking system for competitors but not vice versa. …
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deposit insurance, moral hazard, and asymmetric information; it also has implications for the regulation of payout policies …
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for yield" to exploit the option value of implicit and explicit deposit insurance. In the latter case, market discipline …
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How do near-zero deposit rates affect (optimal) bank capital regulation and risk taking? I study these questions in a tractable, dynamic equilibrium model, in which forward-looking banks compete imperfectly for deposit funding, subject to a (zero) lower bound constraint on deposit rates (ZLB)....
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We investigate the risk taking incentives of "stressed banks" - the banks that are subject to annual regulatory stress tests in the U.S. since 2011. We document that stress tests effectively encourage prudent investment from stressed banks through regulatory monitoring, but also provide them...
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insurance may induce excessive risk taking. The zero lower bound on deposit rates (ZLB) distorts bank competition and boosts …
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This paper analyzes the financing choices of banks under capital regulation during the expansion period that preceded the crisis. We use data from Dealogic on the issuances of financial instruments of Spanish banks to test whether financing choices respond to predictions derived from the...
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