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This paper investigates the incentives for banks to bias their internally generated risk estimates. We are able to … by low-capital banks to improve regulatory ratios. At the portfolio level, the difference in borrower probability of … credits. In addition, we find that low-capital banks' risk estimates have less explanatory power than those of high …
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The determinants of default risk of banks in emerging economies have so far received inadequate attention in the … the economy. Public sector banks have shown significant performance in containing bad debts. Private banks have continued … banks, apart from other accepted determinants of profitability, asset size has no significant impact on profitability. …
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Bank leverage ratios have made an impressive and largely unopposed return; they are mostly used alongside risk-weighted capital requirements. The reasons for this return are manifold, and they are not limited to the fact that bank equity levels in the wake of the global financial crisis (GFC)...
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We develop a dynamic model of banking to assess the effects of liquidity and leverage requirements on banks' insolvency … risk. In this model, banks face taxation, flotation costs of securities, and default costs and maximize shareholder value …
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We show that nonbanks (funds, shadow banks, fintech) affect the transmission of monetary policy to output, prices and …, borrowerlender relationships and Gertler-Karadi monetary policy shocks. Higher policy rates shift credit supply from banks to …
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This paper reviews the cost-benefit analysis, or “regulatory impact analysis” (RIA), in US bank regulators’ risk-based capital (RBC) rule proposals. We review the principles of cost-benefit analysis and its application by US bank regulators. We provide a brief background on RBC rules and...
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a difference-in-difference setting in which private domestic banks serve as the treatment group and state and foreign …-owned banks, whose deposit insurance regime does not change, serve as a control group. …
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lead to significant changes in the competitive environment should banks consider adding a granularity adjustment to the …
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highlight an opposite effect: higher profitability loosens bank borrowing constraints. This enables profitable banks to take …
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The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to study the determinants of banks' net interest margin with a particular … for banks of the relaxation of a binding prudential limit on maturity mismatch, in place in Italy until the mid-2000s. The …
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