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A new class of Capital Asset Pricing Models (CAPM) arises from the first principle of real investment for individual firms. Conceptually as "causal"' as the consumption CAPM, yet empirically more tractable, the investment CAPM emerges as a leading asset pricing paradigm. Firms do a good job in...
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taking place for retail banking. Data on cross-border retail bank flows, cross-border bank mergers and the law of one price … reveal no evidence of integration in retail banking. This paper shows that the previous tests of bank integration are weak in … role of an active market for corporate control and of competition in banking integration. European listed banks …
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rehabilitate the U.S. banking industry. Many of those strategies were used also in Japan to combat its banking problems in the 1990 …
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I consider banks' role in providing funding liquidity (the ability to raise cash on demand) and market liquidity (the ability to trade assets at low cost), and how these roles have evolved. Traditional banks made illiquid loans funded with liquid deposits, thus producing funding liquidity on the...
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Financial safety nets are incomplete social contracts that assign responsibility to various economic sectors for preventing, detecting, and paying for potentially crippling losses at financial institutions. This paper uses the theories of incomplete contracts and sequential bargaining to...
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We investigate how banking relationships that combine lending and underwriting services affect the terms of lending …
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We use exogenous variation in the degree of restrictions to bank competition across Italian provinces to study both the effects of bank regulation and the impact of deregulation. We find that where entry was more restricted the cost of credit was higher and - contrary to expectations- access to...
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We seek to determine the causes and magnitudes of network externalities for the automated clearinghouse (ACH) electronic payments system. We construct an equilibrium model of customer and bank adoption of ACH. We structurally estimate the parameters of the model using an indirect inference...
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In this paper, we propose a bank-based explanation for the decade-long Japanese slowdown following the asset price collapse in the early 1990s. We start with the well-known observation that most large Japanese banks were only able to comply with capital standards because regulators were lax in...
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how bank supervision and regulation affected banking stability during the Great Depression. In response to well … standards that undermined the stability of state banking systems in the 1930s. Those states that prohibited branch banking, had …
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