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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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Traditional capital structure theory predicts that reducing banks' leverage reduces the risk and cost of equity but does not change the weighted average cost of capital, and thus the rates for borrowers. We confirm that the equity of better-capitalized banks has lower beta and idiosyncratic...
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bank issues covered bonds backed by a pool of assets that is bankruptcy remote and replenished following losses …. Encumbering assets allows a bank to raise cheap secured debt and expand profitable investment, but it also concentrates risk on …
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, funding costs, and prudential regulation. A bank’s choice of encumbrance trades off the benefit of expanding profitable …
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, funding costs, and prudential regulation. A bank's choice of encumbrance trades off the benefit of expanding profitable …
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We estimate the cost of capital for the banking industry and find that while the cost of capital soared for banks in the financial crisis, after the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, the value-weighted cost of capital for banks fell differentially more than did the cost of capital for nonbanks. The...
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per year. In competitive lending markets, a change of this magnitude would have doubled or tripled spreads, because bank …
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must be carefully analysed before endorsing the general statement that “bank equity is not expensive”. In fact, specific … argue that market prices (notably price-to-book ratios) should play a primary role in bank supervision. To support our …-shifting phenomena on banks' assets, notably when price-to-book values are below one, may increase the overall risk of the bank, and …
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This study evaluates the effect of the Capital Purchase Program during the 2008-2009 financial crisis on the cost of equity of 170 publicly listed banks in the United States that received funding. We document robust evidence that the liquidity provided by the government bailout reduced the cost...
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We examine the effects of geographic deregulation on banks' cost of equity (COE) using changes in interstate bank …
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