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collateral and various covenants on syndicated loan risk. It addresses firms’ self-selection of these contract terms by analyzing … how a loan’s collateral and covenants affect: 1) the difference between the loan’s credit rating and the senior, unsecured … loan’s credit spread. The results show that the rating agency and investors agree that a collateral requirement, a capital …
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The industrial organization approach to banking is extended to analyze the effects of interbank market activity and … risk averse in an environment where there is no interbank market and liquidity regulation. Introducing a buoyant interbank … separating effect of interbank money markets and recreate endogenous risk aversion of banks. …
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This paper analyses interbank risk using the information content of basis swap (BS) spreads, floating …
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The concept of sustainable banking has developed significantly in recent years. Previous research found that corporate social responsibility reduces firm risk, yet this empirical evidence refers almost exclusively to non-financial companies and it remains unclear whether the risk-mitigating...
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This paper investigates (i) whether growth and profitability persist in banking firms, (ii) whether the level and volatility of growth and profitability are bank-size dependent, and (iii) the relationship between growth and profitability of a bank. Using a dynamic panel model estimated by GMM...
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We examine the pervasive view that "equity is expensive" which leads to claims that high capital requirements are costly and would affect credit markets adversely. We find that arguments made to support this view are either fallacious, irrelevant, or very weak. For example, the return on equity...
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This paper investigates whether there is any consistency between banks' financial strength ratings (bank rating) and their risk-return profiles. It is expected that banks with high ratings tend to earn high expected returns for the risks they assume and thereby have a low probability of...
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Der vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Aufarbeitung der Hintergründe der Subprime-Krise sowie der nachfolgenden internationalen Banken- und Finanzkrisen. Auf dieser Basis werden Vorschläge diskutiert, wie die erkannten Schwachstellen im Finanzsystem repariert bzw. behoben werden...
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We exploit the 2007-2009 financial crisis to analyze how risk relates to bank business models. Institutions with higher risk exposure had less capital, larger size, greater reliance on short-term market funding, and aggressive credit growth. Business models related to significantly reduced bank...
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