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Crisis management at cross-roads : challenges facing cross-border financial institutions at the EU level : a joint publication with the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
Ayadi, Rym (ed.); Lierman, Frank (ed.); Balling, Morten (ed.) - Conference "Crisis Management at Cross-Roads" <2009, …; … - 2010
On 16th November 2009, SUERF, CEPS and the Belgian Financial Forum coorganized a conference "Crisis management at cross-roads" in Brussels. All papers in the present volume are based on contributions at the conference and the SUERF Annual Lecture which followed the event.
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Financing as a supply chain : the capital structure of banks and borrowers
Gornall, Will; Strebulaev, Ilya A. - 2013
We develop a model of the joint capital structure decisions of banks and their borrowers. Strikingly high bank leverage … emerges naturally from the interplay between two sets of forces. First, seniority and diversification reduce bank asset … and fragility. Deposit insurance and the expectation of government bailouts increase not only bank risk taking, but also …
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Lessons Unlearned? Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets
Alfaro, Laura - 2017
Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) attributed to corporate financial roots provide a benchmark for comparison. The firm-level data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956862
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Subprime crisis and board (in-)competence : private vs. public banks in Germany
Hau, Harald; Thum, Marcel - 2009
and study if the bank losses can be traced to the quality of bank governance. For this purpose, we examine the … are then related directly to the magnitude of bank losses in the recent financial crisis. Our data confirms that … supervisory board (in-)competence in finance is related to losses in the financial crisis. Improved bank governance is therefore a …
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Subprime Crisis and Board (In)Competence : Private vs. Public Banks in Germany
Hau, Harald - 2010
and study if the bank losses can be traced to the quality of bank governance. For this purpose, we examine the …" are then related directly to the magnitude of bank losses in the recent financial crisis. Our data confirms that … supervisory board (in)competence in finance is related to losses in the financial crisis. Improved bank governance is therefore a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142003
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The Evolution of Corporate Governance in Banking Industry of Thailand from the 1997 Asian Crisis to the 2008 Global Credit Crisis
Hoontrakul, Pongsak - 2010
Corporate governance (CG) in banking industry of Thailand has evolved significantly after the 1997 Asia Crisis. The … international standard such as OECD and BIS guidelines has been closely followed. Bank of Thailand (BoT) has continuously updated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147681
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Dodd-Frank, Securitization, and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
Hoffman, Stephen P. - 2013
There are few things more constant in life than the rise and fall of financial markets. When markets crash, however, we are forced to restore them while learning from our mistakes. In the wake of the recent subprime mortgage crisis, Congress has drastically but deservedly overhauled the...
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The Reduction of Systemic Risk in the United States Financial System
Scott, Hal S. - 2010
related limitations on bank size would not reduce systemic risk …
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The Financial Meltdown of 2008 : The Perspective of Jewish Law
Friedman, Hershey H. - 2010
One of the great ironies of the financial meltdown of 2008 – which was really more of a values meltdown – is that very few U.S. laws were actually broken. This paper investigates the financial crisis from a different legal perspective – that of Jewish law, using six framing principles:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152492
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The Importance of Monitoring and Mitigating the Safety-Net Consequences of Regulation-Induced Innovation
Kane, Edward J. - 2010
To be effective, programs of regulatory reform must address the incentive conflicts that intensify financial risk-taking and undermine government insolvency detection and crisis management. Subsidies to risk taking that large institutions extract from the financial safety net encourage managers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140025