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We show that insurance companies have almost nonupled their investments in collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) in … capital charges, insurance companies invest more heavily in bonds and CLO tranches with higher yields. Preferences for CLO … regulatory reform, resulting in insurance companies holding more than 40 percent of mezzanine tranches outstanding in 2019. In …
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While both size and complexity are important for the largest U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs), specific types of complexity and their patterns across banks are not well understood. We introduce a range of measures of organizational, business, and geographic complexity. Comparing 2007 with...
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This paper studies the relationship between the business cycle and financial intermediation in the euro area. We establish stylized facts and study their stability during the global financial crisis and the European sovereign debt crisis. Long-term interest rates have been exceptionally high and...
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Using a novel database containing the time-series details of the organizational structure of individual bank holding companies, this paper presents the first population-wide study of the transformation in business scope of U.S. banks. Expanding scope has a negative impact on performance on...
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We study market reactions to seasoned equity issuances that were announced by financial companies between 2002 and 2013. To assess the risk and valuation implications of these seasoned equity issuances, we conduct an event analysis using daily credit default swap (CDS) and stock market pricing...
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in geographies with concentrated banking markets. When banks respond to uncertainty by liquidity hoarding, the potential …
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Using data from bank holding company regulatory reports, we examine the relationshipbetween stock repurchases and financial performance for a large sample of bank holding companies over the years 1987 to 1998. The primary result is that higher levels of repurchases in one year are associated...
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area, unlike some areas of investment banking, commercial banks have always been allowed to compete directly with … area, unlike some areas of investment banking, commercial banks have always been allowed to compete directly with … returns for bank advisors when they advise their own loan customers in acquiring other firms. -- Relationship banking …
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