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On 5-6 September 2012 SUERF held its 30th Colloquium "States, Banks, and the Financing of the Economy" at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the Colloquium. All the chapters in this publication discuss from different...
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We study the impact of higher bank capital buffers, namely of the Other Systemically Important Institu- tions (O-SII) buffer, on banks' lending and risk-taking behaviour. The O-SII buffer is a macroprudential policy aiming to increase banks' resilience. However, higher capital requirements...
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On 3 December EY hosted a SUERF conference on banking reform with Sir Howard Davies, the Chairman of RBS, and Dame … Colette Bowe, the Chairman of the Banking Standards Board, as the two keynote speakers. Professor David Miles (Imperial … College) gave the SUERF 2015 Annual Lecture on Capital and Banks. The conference focused on core aspects of banking reform …
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-2010 financial crisis. The adequate number of data provided to the public domain is the condition of transparency of the banking … disclosures and if more stable banking sectors tend to report wider scope of data. Finding out the nature of disclosures …
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Banks' activity is challenged by the macroeconomic, financial and regulatory environment emerging from the financial crisis. Slower economic growth, low interest rates, more stringent regulation on capital and liquidity, the need to decrease leverage for a number of banks, increased market...
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The unprecedented expansion of sovereign balance sheets since the global financial crisis has given a new meaning to the term sovereign risk. Developments in Europe since early 2010 presented new challenges for the functioning of private banks in an environment of heightened sovereign risk. This...
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The purpose of this paper, structured in three Sections, is twofold: (a) The first is to analyse the conditions under which a group of financial firms is considered to be a ‘financial conglomerate' in accordance with the (complex) definition of this term in Article 2 (point (14)) of the...
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We study the impact of higher bank capital buffers, namely of the Other Systemically Important Institutions (O-SII) buffer, on banks' lending and risk-taking behaviour. The O-SII buffer is a macroprudential policy aiming to increase banks' resilience. However, higher capital requirements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867435
We analyze the determinants and the long-run consequences of government interventions in the eurozone banking sector … their consequences. We find that forbearance caused undercapitalized banks to shift their assets from loans to risky … sovereign debt and engage in zombie lending, resulting in weaker credit supply, elevated risk in the banking sector, and …
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Macroeconomic developments are important for bank profitability. Country risk is therefore an important determinant of the riskiness of banks. In this research the downside risk of multiple combinations of banks in the EU is modelled by a factor model, explicitly taking into account country...
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