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The failure of Lehman Brothers highlighted the severe lapses in risk management and regulatory oversight that brought on and intensified the global financial crisis. This paper presents a structural credit risk model that provides useful early warning signals that regulators could have used to...
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We investigate the secular increase in the corporate cash holding over the period 1980-2006. We show that along with firm characteristic–related variables, monetary policy and banking structure have a significant bearing on corporate cash holdings, as they determine the opportunity cost of...
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We show that a liquidity shock can affect the solvency of a bank and cause its default if the bank does not hold enough … individual bank. These shock scenarios are materialized by different net demands for withdrawal of funds (NDWF) - which are not … necessarily justified by the solvency situation of the bank before the initial shock - and may lead the bank to sell illiquid …
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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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We examine whether business groups’ influence on cash holdings depends on ownership. Group affiliation can increase firms’ agency costs or benefit firms by providing an internal capital market, especially in transition economies characterized by weak investor protection and difficult...
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This study investigates the benefits of cash in a general context. First, we explicitly address the arguments of cash critics, who are calling for cash to be abolished altogether. Second, we show that cash plays a crucial role in the current two-tier banking system. Third, we are discussing a...
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We empirically analyse the relationship between longer term central bank liquidity support and banks' balance sheet …
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We empirically analyse the relationship between longer term central bank liquidity support and banks' balance sheet …
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This paper analyses the potential roles of bank asset fire sales and recourse to central bank credit to ensure banks …' funding liquidity and solvency. Both asset liquidity and central bank haircuts are modelled as power functions within the unit … interval. Funding stability is captured as strategic bank run game in pure strategies between depositors. Asset liquidity, the …
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volatility and the characteristic of the bank network. Finally, we discuss the n-branch model for real-world banking groups (n …
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