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because it reflects special liquidity benefits of bank debt. Even aside from neglecting the systemic damage to the economy …
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it reflects special liquidity benefits of bank debt. Even aside from neglecting the systemic damage to the economy that …
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the cost of credit. Public subsidies of debt financing through tax shields and implicit guarantees may make equity … “expensive” but do not make sense given the negative externalities associated with leverage. Some have suggested that debt serves …While it is recognized that the high degree of leverage used by financial institutions creates systemic risks and other …
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the influence of financial system liquidity and corporate leverage on a firm …'s overinvestment. We posit that when external funds are easily available, as in expansionary monetary periods, debt loses its … traditional role as a managerial control mechanism. Instead, the supply of systemic liquidity results in corporate leverage …
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Because of secrecy, little is known about the political economy of central bank lending. Utilizing a novel, hand-collected historical daily dataset on loans to commercial banks, we analyze how personal connections matter for lending of last resort, highlighting the importance of governance for...
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In this paper we discuss the importance of liquidity risk when evaluating the risk of portfolios of financial assets that insurance companies hold. Until very recently and within the scope of Solvency II, liquidity risk was only considered under Pillar II, i.e. the proposal was that insurance...
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Regulatory capital guidelines allow for loan loss reserves to be added back as capital. The evidence in this paper suggests that the influence of loan loss reserves added back as regulatory capital (hereafter referred to as “add-backs”) on bank risk cannot be explained by either economic...
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In this chapter we describe stress testing at banks covering the major products and businesses in which banks engage. This includes commercial and retail lending, capital markets (investment banking, sales and trading), and trust and custody. We cover loss and net income modeling and thus...
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. On the other hand, entering in a repo increases the future debt burden of the bank. We show, if the competitive repo …
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Although liquidity creation is a key banking function, little is known about its determinants. We use a new identification strategy to assess whether an intensification of competition among banks increases or decreases liquidity creation. Consistent with the predictions of some theoretical...
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