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We compare the stability and timeliness of credit ratings produced by a traditional issuer-paid rating agency (Moody's Investors Service) and a subscriber-paid rater (Rapid Ratings). Moody's ratings exhibit less volatility but are slower to identify default risk. We control for Moody's aversion...
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Recent studies examining the effects of a credit rating on firms’ capital structure and adjustment of capital structure to target have focused predominantly on non-financial firms, with virtually no attention given to financial institutions. Using an international sample of 391 rated banks...
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With this paper we seek to contribute to the literature on the relation between finance and growth. We argue that most studies in the field fail to measure the quality of financial intermediation but rather resort to using proxies on the size of financial systems. Moreover, cross-country...
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the proprietary bank-to-bank European interbank dataset extracted from Target2 and also exploit the Lehman and sovereign …
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In this paper we apply a bivariate probit model to investigate the implications of bank lending policy. In the first … equation we model the bank's decision to grant a loan, in the second the probability of default. We confirm that banks provide …
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This paper assesses the usefulness of private credit variables and other macrofinancial and banking sector indicators for the setting of Basel III/CRD IV countercyclical capital buffers (CCBs) in a multivariate early warning model framework, using data for 23 EU Members States from 1982 Q2 to...
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collateral haircuts and the endogenous risk of a liquidity-driven bank run. We then test the model’s predictions using a novel … asset encumbrance increases bank risk, although this relationship is rather heterogeneous …
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to engage in income-increasing earnings management significantly depend on bank size and ex-post interest margin …
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actual riskiness. We explore the effects of these regulatory privileges on the co-variation between sovereign and bank sector … credit risks–the so-called sovereign-bank nexus. Examining sovereign bond portfolios of large European banks between 2010 and … sovereign-bank nexus and thus serve as a reasonable starting point for the future regulatory treatment of sovereign debt …
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