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This paper examines the determinants of firm stock-price performance from 1990 to 1993" in Japan. During that period of time, the typical firm on the Tokyo Stock Exchange lost more" than half its value and banks experienced severe adverse shocks. We show that firms whose debt" had a higher...
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This paper argues that an implicit deposit-insurance credit enhancement is extended to any nondeposit savings vehicle offered by a very large bank. This unpriced credit enhancement helps to explain the preference revealed by very large U.S. banks for gearing up to offer mutual funds instead of...
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This paper examines an effect of deregulating the market for corporate control on CEO compensation in the banking … industry. Given that each state's banking regulation defines the competitiveness of its corporate control market, we examine … the effect of a state's interstate banking regulation on the level and structure of bank CEO compensation. Using panel …
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This paper asks whether the vaunted comparative stability of the Canadian banking system has been purchased at the cost …
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This paper pinpoints sources of recent problems in U.S. commercial banking. The objective is to provide a context for … banking less stable in the 1980s. The second part identifies the specific sources of the industry's difficulties over this … recent policy reforms and on-going policy options. in the light of our evidence on the main sources of problems in banking …
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The major theme of this paper is that the commercial banks have weathered the debt crisis, while many debtor countries remain in economic paralysis or worse. There is a growing consensus that much of the LDC debt will not be fully serviced in the future, and that consensus is reflected in at...
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Financial network structure is an important determinant of systemic risk. This paper examines how the U.S. interbank network evolved over a long and important period that included two key events: the founding of the Federal Reserve and the Great Depression. Banks established connections to...
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We examine the effect of negative nominal interest rates on bank profitability and behavior using a cross-country panel of over 5,100 banks in 27 countries. Our data set includes annual observations for Japanese and European banks between 2010 and 2016, which covers all advanced economies that...
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We characterize how U.S. global systemically important banks (GSIBs) supply short-term dollar liquidity in repo and foreign exchange swap markets in the post-Global Financial Crisis regulatory environment and serve as the "lenders-of-second-to-last-resort". Using daily supervisory bank balance...
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dynamic banking model in which monetary policy affects imperfectly competitive banks' funding costs. Banks optimize the pass …
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