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This paper compares the current regulatory capital requirements under the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) and the 10-percent leverage ratio, as proposed by the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. House of Representatives' Financial CHOICE Act (FCA). We find that the majority of U.S. banks would not qualify for an...
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Mortgage originators use credit score cutoff rules to determine how carefully to screen loan applicants. Recent research has hypothesized that these cutoff rules result from a securitization rule of thumb. Under this theory, an observed jump in defaults at the cutoff would imply that...
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Credit score cutoff rules result in very similar potential borrowers being treated differently by mortgage lenders. Recent research has used variation induced by these rules to investigate the connection between securitization and lender moral hazard in the recent financial crisis. However, the...
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In moral hazard models, bank shareholders have incentives to transfer wealth from the deposit insurer - that is … value, and a risk measure, this paper develops a semi-parametric model for estimating the critical level of bank risk at …
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heterogeneous and depended on the financial features of banks’ balance sheets; as its business becomes more diversified as a bank … that investors’ evaluation approach of the risk-inducing effect of the accommodative policy on bank has been changing over …
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This paper studies how a bank's diversification affects its own risk taking behavior and the risk taking of competing ….S. commercial banking sector indicate that a bank's risk taking is lower when its competitors have a more diversified branch network …, I further pin down a causal relationship between the diversification of competitors and a bank's risk taking behavior …
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promoting bank safety and soundness. The Bank for International Settlements contends that market discipline imposes strong … potential losses from their risk exposures. Using 2007 and 2013 data on top-tier, publicly traded U.S. bank holding companies …
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to the balance sheet structure of U.S. large banks using Uniform Bank Holding Company Performance Reports reveals that a …
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meaningful. Despite unprecedented central bank intervention, the stock returns of both U.S. and European banks have remained … significantly related to market and bank-level fundamentals in the years since the financial crisis. Modeling bank returns as a … function of their profitability, growth and solvency explains 44% to 60% of the variation in U.S. and European bank stock …
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This paper compares the stability of the U.S. Dual Banking system's two bank groups, national and state banks, in light … question asks to whether or not the respective regulatory agencies of both bank groups are responsible for these changes in … liquidity-related problems than the FDIC. The paper is the first of its kind to analyze bank fragility around the escalation of …
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