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Our paper evaluates recent regulatory proposals mandating the deferral of bonus payments and claw-back clauses in the financial sector. We study a broadly applicable principal agent setting, in which the agent exerts effort for an immediately observable task (acquisition) and a task for which...
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We present a sequence of two-period models of incentive-based compensation in order to understand how the properties of optimal compensation structures vary with changes in the model environment. Each model corresponds to a different occupation within a bank, such as credit line managers, loan...
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worldwide political institutions to approve a more rigorous regulation on financial institutions and predict financial crises … EU regulation on credit rating agencies and current Basel II enhancements. Finally we can determine that most regulatory … counterproductive and a danger for worldwide economic growth. -- structured finance ; ratings ; regulation ; subprime crisis ; Basel II …
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We analyze an initiative by insurance regulators to reform capital regulations for mortgage-backed securities (MBS) by replacing credit ratings with third-party estimates of expected credit losses and by considering an insurer's exposure to future losses when determining regulatory capital....
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The paper analyzes the interaction between an endogenous capital structure and investment decision, and the incentive scheme of bank executives. We show that the implementation of capital requirements, which are contingent on compensation schemes, drive a wedge between the interests of the...
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government guarantees rather than from corporate governance failures within banks. The idea of the proposed regulation is to … shareholder risk-shifting incentives. The decisive advantage of this approach compared to existing regulation is that the …
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Within the Internal Ratings-Based (IRB) approach of Basel II it is assumed that idiosyncratic risk has been fully diversified away. The impact of undiversified idiosyncratic risk on portfolio Value-at-Risk can be quantified via a granularity adjustment (GA). We provide an analytic formula for...
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We show that the saddle-point approximation method to quantify the impact of undiversified idiosyncratic risk in a credit portfolio is inappropriate in the presence of double default effects. Specifically, we prove that there does not exist an equivalent formula to the granularity adjustment,...
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In 2005 the Internal Ratings Based (IRB) approach of "Basel II" was enhanced by a "treatment of double default effects" to account for credit risk mitigation techniques such as ordinary guarantees or credit derivatives. This paper reveals several severe problems of this approach and presents a...
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