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bank behavior. This Article counters that view, arguing that investment banks are rightly characterized as fiduciaries of …
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and bank managers to minimize the size of non-performing loans. After examining 82 banks from US, Europe, Asia and Africa … predictive power of each bank-specific factor (excluding loan diversification), regulatory variable and macroeconomic indicator …
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The unusual severity of the recent global financial crisis has drawn much attention to systemic risk, particularly its measurement, and the institutions that contribute most to it. This paper provides an empirical examination of the systemic risk potential among banking institutions in Asia...
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literature on quantifying bank technology. I find that banks engage in less soft-information lending when back-office bank … find that competition, lending decisions, and bank size are the primary drivers of technological development. I show that … these results are robust to econometric tests which account for endogeneity; to an alternative definition of the bank's size …
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This article examines the regulatory challenges raised by recent, overlooked changes in insurance markets that have led to a functional convergence between insurance and the broader financial sector.The law literature on financial regulation last addressed the issue of convergence over a decade...
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Bank Holding Companies (BHCs) have been diversifying their businesses increasingly among banking, securities and …
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This paper examines the impact of charter type, holding company structure, and measures of bank fragility on the … likelihood of a bank bailout or failure during the late 2000s financial crisis. The empirical results indicate that established … brokered deposits, and held a relatively large portfolio of real estate loans. In addition, bank failure was more likely for …
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This study investigates whether the use of derivatives by US banks have impacted the performance of these banks. Data in this study was collected over the period of 2002-2009, with the study focusing on five US banks. In the first stage of the study financial ratios Return on Assets (ROA),...
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.Design/methodology/approach – Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM) is used in the study in estimating the relationship between the leverage level and bank …'s performance.Findings – The results show strong significant relationship between capital structure (TDC) selection and bank …, capital structure particularly, STDC impacts positively on bank's performance as measured by ROA, suggesting that profitable …
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This study uses the 2008 mortgage crisis to demonstrate how the relationship between vertical integration and performance crucially depends on corporate governance. Prior research has argued that the vertical integration of mortgage origination and securitization aligned divisional incentives...
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