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diversification on bank risk-taking. Our results show that the relation between portfolio diversification and bank risk-taking is both … time a specific channel through which financial development, in the form of bank shareholders' diversification, affects the …
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This paper uses granular bond portfolio data to study how banking systems across the European Union (EU) adjust their asset holdings in response to regulatory solvency shocks. We also study the impact of these shocks at financial intermediaries on the prices of bonds in their portfolio. Despite...
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Using new data for the universe of firms covered in Amadeus, we reconstruct the portfolios of shareholders who hold equity stakes in private and publicly-traded European firms. We find great heterogeneity in the degree of portfolio diversification across large shareholders. Exploiting this...
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Using new data for the universe of firms covered in Amadeus, we reconstruct the portfolios of shareholders who hold equity stakes in private and publicly-traded European firms. We find great heterogeneity in the degree of portfolio diversification across large shareholders. Exploiting this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116279
ownership in the bank, as evidence of a government pressure channel. The home bias is positively valued by the stock market, as … operative. The European Central Bank's large injections of liquidity in December 2011 and February 2012 reduced the marginal …
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The euro crisis was fueled by the diabolic loop between sovereign risk and bank risk, coupled with cross-border flight …
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We investigate whether sovereign bond holdings of European banks are determined by a risk-return trade-off. Using data between 2011 and 2018 for 75 European banks, we confirm that banks exhibited risk-taking behavior during the sovereign debt crisis, e.g., due to moral suasion. In the period...
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with the increase in the size of the bank´s assets …
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European banks hold 10% of their total assets in portfolios that give rise to unrealised gains and losses which under Basel III will no longer be allowed to be removed from banks' regulatory capital. Using a sample of European banks, and taking advantage of the different treatment afforded,...
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We use administrative and supervisory data at the bank and loan level to investigate the impact of the introduction of … covered bonds on the composition of bank balance sheets and bank risk. Covered bonds, despite being collateralized by … mortgages, lead to a shift in bank lending from mortgages to corporate loans. Young and low-rated firms in particular receive …
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