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At the time they occurred, the savings and loan insolvencies were considered the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Contrary to what was then believed, and in sharp contrast with 2007-09, they in fact had little macroeconomic significance. S&L remediation cost between 2 and 3...
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aggressive stance by bank regulators with respect to the provisions for loan losses and write-downs of banks' non …
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Liquidity mismatch—the risk of a bank being unable to fund increases in assets or meet its obligations as they come due …, contributing to bank failure and distress …
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-party investors increase the insolvency risk of banks. This is in particular likely if a bank sells the senior tranche and retains a …
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a special regime of bank insolvency that places their failure outside the jurisdiction of bankruptcy courts. In 1976 … entirely failed even to notice the existence of a special bank insolvency regime....Few would think that the neglect is still … totaling hundreds of billions of dollars of assets under their control and subject to the special bank insolvency rules …
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A financial market can be expressed in a network structure where the stocks resides as nodes and the links account for returns correlation. Centrality measure in the financial network structure captures firms' embeddedness and connectivity in the capital market structure. This paper investigates...
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lawmakers should weigh general welfare against this autonomy principle, especially as regards new European bank insolvency law …
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When it filed for bankruptcy protection in September 2008, Lehman Brothers was an active participant in the derivatives market and was party to 906,000 derivative transactions of all types under 6,120 ISDA Master Agreements with an estimated notional value of $35 trillion. The majority of...
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Anton R. Valukas, the Lehman Brothers court-appointed bankruptcy examiner, produced a 2,200-page report detailing possible claims that the estate might pursue, and he identified several, from company officers to its independent auditors. The most startling revelation of the report, however, was...
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about subprime mortgages. Lehman was the fourth-largest U.S. investment bank with assets of $639 billion and its operations …
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