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There is a misplaced notion that Risk Management and Business Development are at cross-roads, which is based on the premise that the Business Managers tend to compromise in certain areas of Risk Management in the interest of the business growth. But, in the larger interests of the Risk...
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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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This paper investigates the impact of board diversity on the performance and risk of banks. We put an emphasis on identifying features of the board structure that could increase performance and lower the possible losses of banks. Using a unique, hand-collected dataset of 156 banks from Central...
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This paper examines the use of governance and incentive mechanisms beyond loan contract provisions that borrowers use to reduce contracting costs with lenders. We show that as the strength of the relationship between a borrower and a lender intensifies over time, borrowing firms are more likely...
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the combined effect of both internal and external mechanisms on the performance of thirty European banks. This research uses a technique of panel data over the period 2004 to 2009. The results show that banks conduct trade-offs between different governance...
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reliable post-merger banking relationship. The effect is stronger for firms that have more exclusive banking relationships … implications for how mergers in the banking sector affect financing choices of the corporate sector and connect the literature on … the banking sector structure to the literature on cash holdings and dynamic corporate finance …
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The conventional view is that capital requirements, those intended to reduce bank risks, can have a negative impact on bank lending. This paper reconsiders this view by studying the interaction between capital requirements and corporate governance. Our model highlights how capital requirements...
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We analyze the determinants and the long-run consequences of government interventions in the eurozone banking sector … sovereign debt and engage in zombie lending, resulting in weaker credit supply, elevated risk in the banking sector, and …
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that the European banking sector has taken two major shocks and these shocks have left their mark financially, structurally …, regulation, etc.) and its performance. The results also show that the European banking sector is not homogenized. There are …
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The UBS- Credit Suisse (CS) merger in March 2023, one of the biggest banking unions in history, was an emergency rescue … deal engineered by Swiss authorities to avoid more market-shaking turmoil in global banking. The merger resulted in a …
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