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Following Eijffinger and Geraats (2006), we construct an index of transparency of banking supervisors that takes political, economic, procedural, policy and operational transparency into account. Based on a survey, we construct the index for 24 banking supervisors. There are large differences...
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What does the general public know about banking supervision? What objectives does the public think bank supervisors should pursue? We investigate these issues using a survey among Dutch households. First, we find that the public's knowledge about banking supervision is far from perfect. We also...
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I study whether commercial banks can improve their supervisory ratings by switching charters. I use the fees charged by chartering authorities to establish a causal effect from switching on ratings. Banks receive more favorable ratings after they change charters, an effect that is large for both...
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This paper focuses on the financing of banking supervision. Countries are classified according to who finances banking supervision the tax payer and/or the supervised industry -, and how the budget and fees are determined. We show that funding regimes differ across countries. Public funding is...
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The crisis of 2007-2009 has shown that financial market turbulence can lead to huge funding liquidity problems for … liquidity management are modelled in a panel Vector Autoregressive (p-VAR) framework. Orthogonalized impulse responses reveal … that banks respond to a negative funding liquidity shock in a number of ways. First, banks reduce lending, especially …
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analysis suggests that preferential treatment in liquidity and capital regulation increases banks' demand for government bonds … beyond their own risk appetite. Liquidity and capital regulation also seem to incentivize banks to substitute other bonds …
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The purpose of this paper is to assess the history of global liquidity regulation until the revised Basel III proposals … in 2013 and to analyze the interaction of capital regulation and banks' liquidity buffers. Our analysis suggests that … regulating capital is associated with declining liquidity uffers. The interaction of liquidity regulation and monetary policy as …
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, trading costs increase strongly with dealer centrality. Investors with strong liquidity need trade with central dealers and at … times of market-wide illiquidity. Central dealers thus serve as liquidity providers of last resort. …
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The Basel 3 Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) is a micro prudential instrument to strengthen the liquidity position of … regulatory rule can have negative externalities. We simulate the systemic implications of the LCR by a liquidity stress …
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This paper models a financial sector in which there is a feedback between individual bank risk and aggregate funding market problems. Greater individual risk taking worsens adverse selection problems on the market. But adverse selection premia on that market push up bank risk taking, leading to...
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