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We provide an estimate of the size of the shadow banking sector in Europe. We compare it to the shadow banking sector … aspects of hedge funds activities and exchange-traded funds. According to our estimates, the shadow banking sector in Europe … banking sector liabilities in Europe and 130% in the U.S. Beyond data uncertainties for Europe, the difference with the U …
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On 6 June 2012 the Commission published its long awaited Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms. The envisaged regime rests on ‘three pillars': (i) preparatory...
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Pursuant to the Commission's draft Directive of 6 June 2012, the slowly emerging EU framework for the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firm rests on ‘three pillars': (i) preparatory and preventive measures; (ii) early intervention; and (iii) resolution tools and...
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The present crisis has revealed that, as expected, much of the safety net for handling failures in the banking system is deficient, particularly for cross-border banks, and the present problems had to be handled by a range of ad hoc measures. The principal new measure that needs to be undertaken...
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Europe may at least partly stem from bank forbearance. The increasing survival of zombie firms congests markets and … strengthening efforts and insolvency regime reform would contribute to breaking the shackles on potential growth in Europe …
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The European Banking Authority (EBA) released new interest rate risk in the banking book (IRRBB) guidelines in July 2018. Complying with the new EBA rules will be a stiff challenge for many banks given the short transition period and the current state of their IRRBB setup. But most importantly,...
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Using a sample of European banks and a series of events affecting governments' finances, we conduct an event study to examine whether there is a relationship between governments' fiscal difficulties and banks' stock returns. We find a significant reaction of banks' stocks to news concerning...
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This paper investigates the impact of bank regulation on default risk for a sample of six major European countries over 2003-2008. In the first stage of the analysis, we used a descriptive study for the determination of factors that contributed to the bank vulnerability. We measure banking...
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