Showing 1 - 10 of 746
Several countries have recently introduced national capital standards exceeding the internationally coordinated Basel III rules, thus suggesting a ‘race to the top' in capital standards. We study regulatory competition when banks are heterogeneous and give loans to firms that produce output in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993695
During the last decades a consensus has emerged that it is impossible to disentangle liquidity shocks from solvency shocks. As a consequence the classical lender of last resort rules, as defined by Thornton and Bagehot, based on lending to solvent illiquid institutions appear ill-suited to this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316536
European banks have been criticized for holding excessive domestic government debt during the recent Eurozone crisis, which may have intensified the diabolic loop between sovereign and bank credit risks. By using a novel bank-level dataset covering the entire timeline of the Eurozone crisis, I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859050
We develop a stylized DSGE model in which banks face capital regulation and their loan portfolios are subject to non-diversifiable losses due to aggregate shocks. The framework is used to explore the importance of the interaction between macroeconomic conditions, credit default and bank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978077
Banks have always played an ambivalent role in financial markets. On the one hand, they provide essential services for the market; on the other hand, problems in the banking sector can send shock waves through the entire economy. Given this prominent role, it is not surprising that Pereira and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083474
We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. Our aim is to assess whether “old” and “new” EU countries are rated differently and to determine whether “new” ones are assigned lower ratings, ceteris paribus, than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094667
The financial integration in Europe concentrates on cross-border mergers rather than cross-border lending and emphasizes the need for harmonizing bank regulation and supervision. We study the impact of cross-border lending in a theoretical model where banks acquire either hard or soft...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264346
misreporting, as well as over- and under-reporting of exports and imports. Applying this method to existing bilateral trade data on …, focusing on the role of tariff and VAT rates as predictors of import under-reporting. As predicted by economic theory, case … studies, and economic intuition, we find positive correlations for both tariff and VAT rates with import under-reporting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912374
Directive into German law and analyze whether a reduction in the minimum content requirements for quarterly reporting increases … manually examine firms’ quarterly reports for their content elements and construct a new quarterly reporting measure with an … ordinal quality dimension. The results reveal that during the period from 2012 to 2019 lower quarterly reporting levels due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323972
We set up a two-country, regional model of trade in financial services. Competitive firms in each country manufacture untraded consumer goods in an uncertain productive environment, borrowing funds from a bank in either the home or the foreign market. Duopolistic banks can choose their levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978391