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, complementary channel: risk taking. We model banks’ portfolio choice under moral hazard and emphasize the ‘incentive function’ of … equity. We find that (i) an allowance for corporate equity (ACE) and a lower tax rate discourage risk taking and offer … and deposit insurance influence the risk-taking effects of taxation …
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results suggest that exposing shareholders to more downside risk can successfully reduce bank failure …
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Using evidence from Russia, we explore the effect of the introduction of deposit insurance on bank risk. Drawing on … that larger declines in market discipline generate larger increases in traditional measures of risk. These results hold in …
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We explore how changes in capital-based macroprudential regulation in the euro area affect the exposure of national banking sectors to domestic government debt, thus strengthening or weakening the sovereign-bank nexus. To do so, we construct a measure of macroprudential policy based on the...
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We analyze link between mortgage-related regulatory penalties levied on banks and the level of systemic risk in the U ….S. banking industry. We employ a frequency decomposition of volatility spillovers (connectedness) to assess system-wide risk … the public, long-term systemic risk among banks tends to increase. From the dynamic perspective, bank penalties represent …
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This paper analyzes the effect of the removal of government guarantees on bank risk taking. We exploit the removal of …
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. Moreover, pre-crisis incentive pay appears too strong for an optimal trade-off between trading income and risk which maximizes …
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Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are important for employment and economic activity; however, they are perceived to lack adequate financing, which hampers their growth. As a consequence, governments have implemented a number of programs to foster SME lending and attention has focused on...
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incentives to take risk and raise failure probabilities. The competition-stability trade-off is characterized and the …
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liquidity risk and characterizes them. Both a solvency (leverage) and a liquidity ratio are required to control the …
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