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This paper provides evidence on factors affecting the level of the regulatory solvency ratio of Spanish insurers from 2005-2012 by employing the two-step system generalized method of moments in the analysis. Results show a significant degree of persistence in the regulatory solvency ratio. Cost...
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proxy of individual risk in the banking sector, may be a useful tool when applied in the insurance sector. However …-score approaches to examine which one best fits insurance companies. The authors use a final dataset of 183 firms (1,382 observations …) operating in the Spanish insurance sector during the period 2010-2017. Design/methodology/approach - In the first stage, the …
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We review heterogeneous agent-based models of financial stability and their application in stress tests. In contrast to the mainstream approach, which relies heavily on the rational expectations assumption and focuses on situations where it is possible to compute an equilibrium, this approach...
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In this paper, we introduce a model to study the interaction between insurance and banking. We build on the Federal … Crop Insurance Act of 1980, which significantly expanded and restructured the decades-old federal crop insurance program … our model. Banks increased lending to the agricultural sector in counties with higher insurance coverage after 1980, even …
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This occasional paper describes how the financial stability and macroprudential policy functions are organised at the ECB. Financial stability has been a key policy function of the ECB since its inception. Macroprudential policy tasks were later conferred on the ECB by the Single Supervisory...
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two of New York City's fifteen banks. Life and Fire Insurance became the largest of the bankruptcies. In violation of New … insurance industry. These lending practices, based on an instrument known as a post note, were initially sound, but were later …
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In August 2007 the United Kingdom experienced its first bank run in over 140 years. Although Northern Rock was not a particularly large bank (it was at the time ranked 7th in terms of assets) it was nevertheless a significant retail bank and a substantial mortgage lender. In fact, ten years...
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The importance of assessing financial stability in emerging Europe has increased rapidly since the recent financial crisis. Against this background, in the present paper we contribute to the existing literature in a twofold way: First, by using a broad range of indicators from money, bond,...
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On 3 December EY hosted a SUERF conference on banking reform with Sir Howard Davies, the Chairman of RBS, and Dame Colette Bowe, the Chairman of the Banking Standards Board, as the two keynote speakers. Professor David Miles (Imperial College) gave the SUERF 2015 Annual Lecture on Capital and...
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Credit risk assessment is a crucial part of macroprudential analysis, with the aggregate nonperforming loan (NPL) ratio serving as a proxy for the economy-wide probability of default of the banking sector's overall loan exposure. Therefore, the factors driving the NPL ratio deserve a lot of...
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