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measures of profitability in the sector. They were indicating that the accumulation of assets eats into the incomes of banks in …
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"Systemic risk" now occupies centre stage in discussions of bank regulatory reform. Systemic risk is often seen as a problem of size, operational complexity, interconnectivity and contagion. It is less often discussed in terms of the institutional framework of legal rules and principles within...
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banks. This paper proposes a novel taxonomy to identify and track business model evolution for the 30 Global Systemically … Important Banks (G-SIBs). Drawing from banks' reporting, it identifies strategies along four dimensions-consolidated lines of …
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We examine the relation between banks' corporate social responsibility (CSR) and financial performance in a context of … the recent financial crisis. We find that banks, in general, appear to be rewarded for being socially responsible as … financial performance is positively and significantly related to CSR scores. We find that the biggest banks pursue socially …
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This paper argues that a nuanced view of sophisticated investors, as well as sellers and structurers of financial instruments, articulated within a rationality paradigm, has implications for financial regulation. The paper distinguishes between conformist investors, who tend to herd, and...
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Fünf Jahre nach der Abschaffung der umfassenden Haftung für Landesbanken hat sich deren Lage deutlich verschärft. Dazu hat auch die internationale Finanzkrise beigetragen. Einzelne Landesbanken benötigten erhebliche Kapitalspritzen. Inzwischen ist klar, dass eine weitere Konsolidierung im...
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This paper examines banks' disclosures and loss recognition in the financial crisis and identifies several core issues …, banks' disclosures about relevant risk exposures were relatively sparse. Such disclosures came later after major concerns … about banks' exposures had arisen in markets. Similarly, the recognition of loan losses was relatively slow and delayed …
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This paper develops an analytical framework that can be used to anticipate problems in the banking system and enable supervisors to take mitigating actions at an early stage. This paper has two components. First, it develops an early warning indicator that is intended to capture a number of the...
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After the collapse of Lehman Brothers, a rapid and far-reaching shrinkage of international banks’ assets with a focus …
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