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The objective of the paper is to analyse capital adequacy, dividend policy and new share issues of Italian banks in the last twenty years, to identify the net role of the market in the capitalisation of Italian and European banks. The paper is primarily a descriptive study aimed at documenting...
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We investigate the equilibrium interest rate charges on non-recourse and recourse loans secured by stock. In such loans, the client retains the option to prepay and recover the collateral stock. We adopt a structural model of the firm where debt levels, with endogenous bankruptcy, affect equity...
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about the role of CLOs in the provision of credit to risky firms. Managers are not passive buy and hold investors, unlike … their CDO counterparts. There is selection, monitoring and churn. The trading behavior of managers with respect to loans … exhibits stark differences in returns between capital-constrained and unconstrained managers -- unconstrained managers do not …
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determine the level of credit culture employed in the banking sector. Using 188 responses from an electronic survey comprising …
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We review the recent academic and policy literature on bank loan loss provisioning (LLP) to identify several advances in the literature, to highlight some challenges in LLP research and suggest possible directions for future research with some concluding remarks. Among other things, we observe...
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. While it is not difficult for bank managers and analysts to understand that the provisioning process is subject to gaming …
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This paper examines the effects of the main bank's equity-debt structure, (i.e., equity stakes and debt claims) on firm performance and financial policies in Japan over the period 1977-1987. Results show that firms with main bank equity stakes have lower performance than those without. However,...
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From 2007 to 2010, more than 200 community banks in the United States failed. Many of these failed community banking organizations (CBOs) held less than $1 billion in total assets. As economic conditions worsen, banking organizations are expected to preserve capital to withstand unexpected...
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involved in the decision processes, but are nevertheless outsiders. In our survey, corporate advisers of a large German bank … report their perception of clients' decisions. The survey covers both large companies and many SMEs. It confirms the …
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This paper studies whether banks charge higher or lower interest rates on loans to firms with overconfident CEOs. It establishes a theoretical model to show the relationship between the loan rate and overconfidence of the borrowing firm's CEO. It also conducts empirical analyses to test the...
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