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Corporate performance, board structure, and their determinants in the banking industry

Adams, Renée B.; Mehran, Hamid - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2008

the relationship between board structure (size and composition) and bank performance, as well as some determinants of … board structure. We document that mergers and acquisitions activity influences bank board composition, and we provide new … evidence that organizational structure is significantly related to bank board size. We argue that these factors may explain why …

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Market sidedness: insights into motives for trade initiation

Sarkar, Asani; Schwartz, Robert A. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2007

In this paper, we infer motives for trade initiation from market sidedness. We define trading as more two-sided (one-sided) if the correlation between the numbers of buyer- and seller-initiated trades increases (decreases), and assess changes in sidedness (relative to a control sample) around...

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A new era of bank supervision

Dahlgren, Sarah J. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2011

Remarks at the New York Bankers Association Financial Services Forum, New York City.

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Supervisory reform for global banks

Dahlgren, Sarah - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2013

Remarks at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies Seminar on the Impact of U.S. Regulatory Reform on Global Banks, New York City.

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The implementation of recent monetary policy actions

Thomas C. Baxter, Jr. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2011

Testimony before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives.> .

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Risk governance: appetite, culture and the limits of limits

Alix, Michael - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2012

Remarks at the Risk USA 2012 Conference, New York City.

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Financial visibility and the decision to go private

Mehran, Hamid; Peristiani, Stavros - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2009

A large fraction of the companies that went private between 1990 and 2007 were fairly young public firms, often with the same management team making the crucial restructuring decisions both at the time of the initial public offering (IPO) and the buyout. Why did these public firms decide to...

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What can we learn from privately held firms about executive compensation?

Cole, Rebel A.; Mehran, Hamid - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2008

We study the Green and Lin (2003) model of financial intermediation with two new features: traders may face a cost of contacting the intermediary, and consumption needs may be correlated across traders. We show that each feature is capable of generating an equilibrium in which some (but not all)...

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Resolving troubled systemically important cross-border financial institutions: is a new corporate organizational form required?

Cumming, Christine; Eisenbeis, Robert A. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2010

This paper explores the advantages of a new financial charter for large, complex, internationally active financial institutions that would address the corporate governance challenges of such organizations, including incentive problems in risk decisions and the complicated corporate and...

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When is there a strong transfer risk from the sovereigns to the corporates? Property rights gaps and CDS spreads

Bai, Jennie; Wei, Shang-Jin - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2012

When a sovereign faces the risk of debt default, it may be tempted to expropriate the private sector. This may be one reason why international investment in private companies has to take into account the sovereign risk. But the likelihood of sovereign risk transferring to corporates and...

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