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The Economics of Bank Moratoria : The Milford Plan, Michigan, and Bank Survival During the Great Depression

Van Horn, Patrick - 2010

Banks in Michigan were opting for self-imposed moratoria during the Great Depression as early as 1931. These plans largely imitated a plan that began in the township of Milford, Michgan. Eventually, all banks in the state were closed in the national holiday declared by President Roosevelt in...

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Systemic Risk : Is the Banking Sector Special?

Bühler, Wolfgang - 2010

In this paper, we empirically investigate the degree of systemic risk in the U.S. banking sector versus other industry sectors. We characterize the systemic risk in each sector by the lower tail dependence of stock returns. Our study differs from extant literature in three respects. First, we...

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Indian Banking : Emerging Issues and Enhancing Competitive Efficiency

Uppal, R. K. - 2010

Indian banking industry has undergone qualitative changes due to banking sector reforms where the well-known parameters have thoroughly changed. The entry of new private sector banks into the Indian banking industry has brought in a torrent of new challenges for Public Sector Banks (PSBs) at a...

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The Determinants of Capital Buffer in Indonesian Banking

Prasetyantoko, A. - 2010

explained by bank-specific, business cycle, regulatory and institutional variables. In regards to the business cycle, we find … evidence that bank capital buffer is procyclical. These finding becomes different, if we divide banks into two sub …-groups according to bank size and market involvement. More importantly, larger banks and listed banks more involved in market …

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Global Financial Crisis and Systemic Risks in the Korean Banking Sector

Kang, Myung-Koo - 2010

This paper reviews the impacts of financial develeraging under the 2008 global financial crisis on South Korea, focusing on the systemic risks in the banking sector. It explores the sharp currency depreciation and the outflow of foreign investors' portfolio investment from the Korean stock...

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Banking Sector Output Measurement in the Euro Area - A Modified Approach

Colangelo, Antonio - 2010

should more closely match the risk characteristics of loans and deposits. For the euro area, imputed bank output is, on …

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Can Banks Circumvent Minimum Capital Requirements? The Case of Mortgage Portfolios Under Basel II

Jagtiani, Julapa - 2010

The recent mortgage crisis has resulted in several bank failures as the number of mortgage defaults increased. The …

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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act : A Cost Benefit Analysis Using the U.S. Banking Industry

Siegel, Philip H. - 2010

banking industry. The return on assets and return on equity were obtained from the Federal Reserve Bank for all SEC …

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Does Bank Concentration Increase Credit Risk-Taking Behaviour? Evidence from SADC

Hussein, Kassim - 2010

relates to bank specific factors mainly cost-to-income ratio (COIR) and prices for bank lending and deposit products. In … general, we find that of the bank-specific factors NIM, COIR and prices for loans and deposits to be significantly related to … credit demand as having a positive and significant influence on bank credit risk …

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An Analysis of the Efficiency of Private Sector Banks in India

Bodla, B. S. - 2010

This paper aims to examine the efficiency, benchmarks and targets for private sector banks operating in India. Keeping in view the limitations of ratio analysis techniques, production approach of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was applied to judge the efficiency of private sector banks. In this...

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