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Sector-specific macroprudential regulations increase the riskiness of credit to other sectors. Using firm-level data, this paper computed the measures of the riskiness of corporate credit allocation for 29 advanced and emerging economies. Consistently across these measures, the paper finds that...
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relations between solvency shocks and liquidity shocks. These relations are then used to model liquidity and solvency risk in a …. We define the concept of 'Liquidity at Risk', which quantifies the liquidity resources required for a financial …
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Advocates for internal model-based capital regulation argue that this approach will reduce costs and remove distortions … convey to bank shareholders when market and credit risk regulatory capital requirements are set using bank internal model … estimates. These subsidies are not uniform across the risk spectrum, and, as a consequence, internal model regulatory capital …
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Following the COVID shock, supervisors encouraged banks to use capital buffers to support the recovery. However, banks have been reluctant to do so. Provided the market expects a bank to rebuild its buffers, any draw-down will open up a capital shortfall that will weigh on its share price....
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This paper compares the current regulatory capital requirements under the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) and the 10-percent leverage ratio, as proposed by the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. House of Representatives' Financial CHOICE Act (FCA). We find that the majority of U.S. banks would not qualify for an...
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We present a semi-structural model of default risk, which is a function of loan and borrower characteristics, economic … quantify mortgage lending risk in two distinct mortgage markets. For each application, we show a range of modeling adjustments … that can be made to capture country-specific institutional features. The model uses bank portfolio data broken down by risk …
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Developing economies can strengthen their financial systems by implementing the main elements of global regulatory reform. But to build an effective prudential framework, they may need to adapt international standards taking into account the sophistication and size of their financial...
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Using a sample of publicly listed banks from 62 countries over the 1991-2017 period, we investigate the impact of capital on banks' cost of equity. Consistent with the theoretical prediction that more equity in the capital mix leads to a fall in firms' costs of equity, we find that better...
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system of capital regulation that addresses these needs by making changes to all three pillars of bank regulation: only … common equity should be recognized as capital for regulatory purposes, and risk weighting of assets should be abandoned …
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