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regulatory side (macroprudential regulation, supervision of incentives) and on the banking side (proper reward systems and … structured decision making) to re-establish prudent banking …
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Usual measures of the risk-taking incentives of bank CEOs do not capture the risk-shifting incentives that the exposure of a CEO's wealth to his firm's stock price (delta) creates in highly levered firms. We find evidence consistent with the importance of these incentives for bank CEOs: In a...
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The paper investigates the role of CEO's equity and risk incentives in boosting securitization in the financial industry and in motivating executives to reduce the perceived risk while betting on it. Using a sample of US financial institutions over the period 2003-2009 we document that CEOs with...
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We examine the political dynamics which led to the codification of the Principles and Standards for sound compensation practices at financial institutions at international (G 20) level and to their subsequent implementation on both sides of the Atlantic. We show that the regulation of bankers'...
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The paper outlines the developments in the EU regulatory framework for executive remuneration since 2004 and going through the financial crisis. It also presents the results of an analysis of the remuneration practices adopted by the largest European listed firms before and after the crisis,...
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effect varies across banking crises, market crises, and normal times that occurred in the U.S. over the past quarter century … all times (during banking crises, market crises, and normal times). Second, capital enhances the performance of medium and … large banks primarily during banking crises. Additional tests explore channels through which capital generates the …
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We evaluate the role of insider ownership in shaping banks' equity issuances in response to the global financial crisis. We construct a unique dataset on the ownership structure of U.S. banks and their equity issuances and discover that greater insider ownership leads to less equity issuances....
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banking sector. Precisely, it is questioned whether currently employed systemic risk indicators are able to account for banks … indicators are indeed able to account for the German banking sector's heterogeneity, providing insight into different bank types … risk. Structural features of the German banking sector amplify the risk of individual institutions and thus their …
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This paper compares the effectiveness, efficiency and robustness of standard and non-standard monetary policy tools, such as the banks' refinancing interest rate, penalty interest rate on deposit facility holdings and minimum reserve requirements on attracted deposits. The assessment is...
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