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regulatory liquidity requirements on bank behavior. A multi-stage decision situation allows for considering the interaction … between credit risk and liquidity risk of banks. This interaction is found to make a risk neutral bank behave as if it were … risk averse in an environment where there is no interbank market and liquidity regulation. Introducing a buoyant interbank …
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We argue that contingent convertible capital (CoCo-Bonds) might have perverse risk-taking incentives for banks (asset substitution problem) and discourage them from investing in positive NPV projects and issuing new equity in times of crisis (debt overhang problem). Whenever the conversion price...
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The paper analyzes the interaction between an endogenous capital structure and investment decision, and the incentive scheme of bank executives. We show that the implementation of capital requirements, which are contingent on compensation schemes, drive a wedge between the interests of the...
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We empirically analyze to which extent popular global systemic risk measures (SRMs) yield comparable results with respect to the systemic importance of a financial institution and, in particular, from which determinants the degree of consistency of the classification by the various SRMs depends....
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Using fund-, firm- and bank-level data we investigate the investments of private equity (PE) funds in the north-western regions of Italy. Both the private equity fund managers and the PE investments are heavily concentrated in this most developed area of the country. The average size of the...
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Arguments for costs of capital requirements in the long run are based on trade-off theories of capital structure. This paper provides a critical assessment of these theories by studying how the optimal capital structure can be modified, when a firm uses the financial markets to alter its cash...
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We explore empirically how capital inflows into the US and financial deregulation within the United States interacted in driving the run-up (and subsequent decline) in US housing prices over the period 1990-2010. To obtain an ex ante measure of financial liberalization, we focus on the history...
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withdraw deposits. Our findings provide empirical support to the Basel III liquidity regulations which emphasize the role of …
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In this paper, we examine how the institutional design affects the outcome of bank bailout decisions. In the German savings bank sector, distress events can be resolved by local politicians or a state-level association. We show that decisions by local politicians with close links to the bank are...
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Mitigating the negative externalities that systemic risk can create for the financial system is the goal of macroprudential supervision. In Europe, macroprudential supervision is conducted both, at the national and at the European level. In principle, national regulators are responsible for...
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