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We assess whether during the recent financial crisis banking systems in countries with more stringent prudential banking regulation have proved more stable. We find indicators of regulatory strength to be relatively well correlated with the extent to which countries have escaped damage during...
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It is likely that such a crisis could not be born somewhere else only in the United States. The "current financial disaster" is the fruit of the combination of specific factors in the US, where elements were gathered to catalyse such a crisis, like, someway, some "primal soup" where were...
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the assistance and to externalize risks, implying overinvestment or excessive risk taking or both. Assistance granted …
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We compare the out-of-sample forecasting accuracy of the time-varying hazard model developed by Shumway (2001) and the one-period probit model used by Cole and Gunther (1998). Using data on U.S. bank failures from 1985 – 1992, we find that, from an econometric perspective, the hazard model is...
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Merchant banking services strengthen the economic development of a country as they acts as sources of funds and information for corporations. Considering the way the Indian economy is growing, the role of merchant banking services in India is indispensable. These financial institutes also act as...
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In the light of the recent financial market turmoil, this paper focuses on liquidity risk management from the point of … to explain the rationale and the limits of the different approaches. Taking into account liquidity risk management models … considered in order to implement effective liquidity risk management. Areas of convergence/divergence at international level are …
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The Indian banking system was initially thought to be insulated from the global financial crisis owing to heavy public ownership and cautious management. It was thus a surprise when some banks experienced a deposit flight, as depositors shifted their money toward government-owned banks and...
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) on bank capital, risk, and performance. We find that high risk weighted asset ratios tend to attract supervisory … intervention. Sanctions whose cause lies at the core of bank safety and soundness curtail the risk-weighted asset ratio, but … amplify the risk of insolvency and returns volatility, which implies that these sanctions do not improve the risk profile of …
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that in response to an increase in capital requirements banks engage in more risk-taking behaviour. Our paper carries …
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introduced a temporary deduction item in capital calculation, creating an average capital buffer of 0.8% of risk weighted assets …
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