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Islamic banking is growing rapidly and its potential impact on global financial stability cannot be underestimated. International standards for resolving banks have evolved after the global financial crisis, culminating in the Financial Stability Board's ('FSB') Key Attributes of Effective...
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Using the data of individual loan contracts extended by the government owned Japan Finance Corporation for Small and Medium Enterprise (JASME), we examine whether the JASME's lending from December 1997 thorough March 1999 mitigated the credit crunch. We find that on average the JASME offset more...
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The paper analyses the different approaches to measure the impact of funding and market liquidity risk in the economics and management of banks. The paper provides also an analysis of the organisational implications of the asset and liability management perspective of liquidity risk. Liquidity...
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2008 Global Financial Crisis has highlighted the importance of systemic risk, which had been overlooked prior to the crisis. Since then, systemic risk, which focuses on the risk contributions of financial institutions to the whole financial system, has become a necessary complement of...
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In this paper, we investigate the extent in which creditor rights protection in bankruptcy induces banks to take more risk, leading to a higher level of systemic risk in the financial system. We apply ∆CoVaR, introduced by Adrian and Brunnermeier (2011), as the measure of systemic risk. Our...
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The last financial crisis has shown that large banking crises not only pose a highly dangerous risk to financial systems, but also to both the real economy and public finances. Reducing that risk has become a priority for regulators and governments. Still, the debate is open on what the systemic...
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Does limiting the size of a large bank reduce its insolvency risk? This paper shows that the answer to this question depends on how exactly paring down of the bank size is done. In fact, the insolvency risk may go down or up depending on the composition of assets and liabilities of the bank...
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Life insurers' odds of being placed under regulatory control (for example, conservatorship or receivership) during the financial crisis years of 2008 and 2009 increased with deteriorating fundamentals at a much higher rate than during normal times or during the previous recession. However, no...
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This paper examines how financial regulation and institutional quality affect the probability of a banking crisis using a panel of 132 countries over the period 1999-2011. We find that the probability of a financial crisis increases moving from low to medium levels of regulation and decreases...
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We study the mobility of Italian firms across different lending banks in the aftermath of Lehman Brothers' collapse, when 40 per cent of the firms analysed changed their pool of lending banks. Using a unique dataset on a sample of about 3,000 Italian firms that encompasses financial and economic...
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