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, securitization and bank risk-taking in a context of the rapid growth in off-balance-sheet activities. The data come from the Canadian … financial sector. Evidence from the 1988-1998 period indicates that: (a) securitization has a negative statistical link with … securitization and bank risk-taking. Profit-risk measure is more sensitive than loss-risk measure to the variation in securitization …
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Our study aims at analyzing Islamic banks efficiency over the period 2001-2008. We found that they were efficient at 78.9%. The level of efficiency could however vary according to regions. Asia displays the highest score with 84.64%. Indeed, country like Malaysia and Pakistan implemented reforms...
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The financial crisis has revealed fatal institutional and structural deficits at the finance market. Politics has reacted to the financial crisis with a sea of legal bills and regulations. But all regulating efforts are merely system-imminent reparation measures and do not solve the core...
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Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die Determinanten der Performance europäischer Arbitrage Collateralized Loan … Eigenschaften des CLO-Managers und der Transaktionscharakteristika als mögliche Einflussfaktoren der Rating Performance. Es wird … gezeigt, dass Transaktionen, bei denen dem CLO-Manager eine Incentive Management Fee gewährt wird, mit einer höheren …
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We consider the finite-time optimal portfolio liquidation problem for a von Neumann-Morgenstern investor with constant absolute risk aversion (CARA). As underlying market impact model, we use the continuous-time liquidity model of Almgren and Chriss (2000). We show that the expected utility of...
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Credit rating agencies play a crucial role in financial markets. There are two competing views regarding their behavior: some argue that they engage in rating inflation, while others suggest that they deflate ratings. This article offers a rationale that reconciles the two opposite arguments. We...
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Although the existing literature of Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) on different categories of stock markets is vast, it …
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performance and guiding investor’s decisions. This paper analyzes the impact of the announcement of changes in Moody’s ratings … over the performance of a set of rated firms quoted in the Portuguese stock market. Following an event study methodology …
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Lecture on the first SFB/TR 15 meeting, Gummersbach, July, 18 - 20, 2004We develop a model of limit order trading in which some traders have better information on future price volatility. As limit orders have option-like features, this information is valuable for limit order traders. We solve...
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We consider the infinite-horizon optimal portfolio liquidation problem for a von Neumann-Morgenstern investor in the liquidity model of Almgren (2003). Using a stochastic control approach, we characterize the value function and the optimal strategy as classical solutions of nonlinear parabolic...
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