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In the wake of the global financial crisis that erupted in 2008, there has been extensive commentary and regulatory focus on the 'Too Big to Fail' issue. In this paper, we survey the proposed solutions and regulatory initiatives that have been undertaken. We conduct a longitudinal analysis of...
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-based informal co- and self-regulation through domestic (gentlemen's) agreements underpinned West German bank internationalisation …
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We develop a model in which accounting information and prudential regulation interact to affect banks' incentives to originate loans. Prudential regulators impose capital requirements on banks but cannot commit to ex-ante efficient intervention. Instead, they respond to ex-post accounting...
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We examine the period over which banking authorities discussed, adopted, and implemented Basel III to understand whether, when, and how firms respond to proposed regulation. We find evidence to suggest that the affected banks not only lobbied rule makers against it, but these banks also made...
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An important question in banking is how strict supervision affects bank lending and in turn local business activity … the thrift regulator (OTS) to analyze economic links between strict supervision, bank lending and business activity. We … capital but can also correct deficiencies in bank management and lending practices, leading to more lending and a reallocation …
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The aim of this paper is to examine what has been the role of information provision to the market throughout the crisis. We consider two main sources of information to the market, financial statements and information provided by credit rating agencies. We examine how these sources of information...
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transnational supervision in the Euro Area. Yet the SSM is far from being perfect. The European Central Bank (ECB), which is tasked …
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