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Taxation, Bank Leverage, and Financial Crises

Mooij, Ruud A. de - 2013

the probability of financial crisis. It finds that greater tax bias is associated with significantly higher aggregate bank …

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Fiscal Consolidation and the Cost of Credit : Evidence from Syndicated Loans

Agca, Senay - 2013

We examine how the cost of corporate credit varies around fiscal consolidations aimed at reducing government debt. Using a new dataset on fiscal consolidations and syndicated corporate loan data, we find that loan spreads increase with fiscal consolidations, especially for small firms, domestic...

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Bank Capital Adequacy in Australia

Sheridan, Niamh - 2012

The paper finds that, given Australia's conservative approach in implementing the Basel II framework, Australian banks' headline capital ratios underestimate their capital strengths. Given their high capital quality and the progress in their funding profiles since the global financial crisis,...

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A New Heuristic Measure of Fragility and Tail Risks : Application to Stress Testing

Schmieder, Christian - 2012

This paper presents a simple heuristic measure of tail risk, which is applied to individual bank stress tests and to …

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Banks in Distress : The Case of Bangladesh

International Monetary Fund - 1990

This paper describes the situation of bank distress which developed in Bangladesh since 1983-84. Since the key problem …

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The Role of the Prudential Supervision and Financial Restructuring of Banks During Transition to Indirect Instruments of Monetary Control

International Monetary Fund - 1996

This paper proposes a stylized sequencing of banking supervision and bank restructuring measures designed to complement … because the initial cost of bank restructuring can be offset, partly, through the budgetary effects of improved enterprise …

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In Finance, Size Matters

Lee, Jong-Kun - 2002

This study investigates the relationship between production efficiency in financial intermediation and financial system size. The study predicts and tests for the existence of ""systemic scale economies"" (SSEs), whereby value-maximizing intermediaries operating in large systems are expected to...

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International Contagion Effects from the Russian Crisis and the LTCM Near-Collapse

Fry, Renee - 2002

We examine empirically the episode of extraordinary turbulence in global financial markets during 1998. The analysis focuses on the market assessment of credit risk captured by daily movements in bond spreads for twelve countries. A dynamic latent factor model is estimated using indirect...

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Building Strong Banks Through Surveillance and Resolution

Enoch, Charles - 2002

Since the mid-1990s, economic observers have kept a watchful eye on the financial sector because of its potential to spark economic crises. Banks in particular have come under close scrutiny. Building Strong Banks through Surveillance and Resolution offers guidance on setting up regulatory and...

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Bank Risk-Taking and Competition Revisited : New Theory and New Evidence

De Nicoló, Gianni - 2006

can predict a negative relationship between concentration and bank loan-to-asset ratios, and a nonmonotonic relationship … between bank concentration and profitability. We explore these predictions empirically using a cross-sectional sample of about …, loan-to-asset ratios are negatively and significantly related to concentration, and bank profits are positively and …

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