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, focusing on short-term gains but risking further losses if rates rose. Instead of hedging the market value risk of bank asset … fluctuations. More vulnerable banks were more likely to reclassify. Extending Jiang et al.'s (2023) solvency bank run model, we …
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Motivated by the regional bank crisis of 2023, we model the impact of interest rates on the liquidity risk of banks … valuable if depositors remain in the bank. This creates run incentives for uninsured depositors. We show that a run equilibrium … the bank. The liquidity risk of the bank thus increases with interest rates. We provide a formula for the bank's optimal …
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We use payroll data on 1.2 million bank employee years in the Austrian, German, and Swiss banking sector to identify … document an economically significant correlation of incentive pay with both the level and volatility of bank trading income … share in the capital markets divisions with the strength of incentive pay in unrelated bank divisions like retail banking …
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We study risk management in financial institutions using data on hedging of interest rate and foreign exchange risk. We find strong evidence that institutions with higher net worth hedge more, controlling for risk exposures, both across institutions and within institutions over time. For...
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paper investigates whether bank ties in Japan were costly for mature and healthy firms in the 1980's and 1990's, and whether … banks continued to facilitate investment once non-bank financing options became available. Using the explicit bond issuing … much larger for main bank client firms, once bond market access is controlled for. This result, coupled with results on the …
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We study a firm that justifies its novel use of equity derivatives as a cash-flow hedging strategy. Our purpose is to understand the challenge of translating risk management theory into managerial action. Cephalon Inc., a biotech firm, bought a large block of call options on its own stock. If...
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The average cash to assets ratio for U.S. industrial firms increases by 129% from 1980 to 2004. Because of this increase in the average cash ratio, American firms at the end of the sample period can pay back their debt obligations with their cash holdings, so that the average firm has no...
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income gap. Secondly, we show that income gap also predicts the sensitivity of bank lending to interest rates. Quantitatively …, a 100 basis point increase in the Fed funds rate leads a bank at the 75th percentile of the income gap distribution to … increase lending by about 1.6 percentage points annually relative to a bank at the 25th percentile …
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of deposit insurance as a function of capital-asset ratio for a bank with demand liabilities and longer term, default …
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