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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Bank failure"”.
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A Cox proportional hazards-cash flow model for bank failure prediction
… uses the Cox proportional hazard model and bank cash flow information to determine whether adding cash flow information will improve current bank failure prediction methods. In two published papers it has been shown that the Cox model performs as well as other models with respect to error …
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Autopsy of the Banking Crisis: Examining the Impact of Director Characteristics on Bank Failures
… impact of the recent financial crisis on the banking industry reverberated throughout the United States and had contagion effects worldwide. Congressional inquiries, media scrutiny, and the public alleged failure of the boards of directors to effectively discharge their governance …
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ESSAYS ON BANKING MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
… three chapters which are three papers on banking mergers and acquisitions. Bank failure and bank takeover are major risks which cause a bank to cease to exist, and Chapter 1 focuses on analyzing the factors which indicate bank takeover target vs. bank failure. The target banks would be …
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The role of deposit insurance in the banking system: the case of Lesotho
… and supervisory frameworks to ensure that banks operate within a stable economic environment. In addition, many countries have set up deposit insurance systems in order to complement the prudential supervision and regulation by the Central Banks as well as the lender-of last-resort function …
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Three Essays on Banking Concentration
Banks warrant special attention because of the key role they play in providing liquidity to the market, transforming assets, managing risks, and monitoring borrowers. Over the past few decades, the US banking system consolidated considerably which resulted in a more concentrated system where the …
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Estimating the cost of deposit insurance for a commercial bank following an optimal investment strategy
Commercial banks play a dominant role in facilitating the economic growth of a country by acting as an intermediary between the de cit spending unit (borrowers) and the surplus spending unit (lenders). In particular, they transform short-term deposits into medium and long-term loans. Due to their …
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Protecting depositors and promoting financial stability in South Africa
Bank failures are a worldwide phenomenon and South Africa is no exception as evidenced by historical and recent bank failures in South Africa. This thesis investigates the desirability of introducing an explicit deposit insurance scheme in South Africa as a means of protecting small, …
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Three Essays in Banking
… essays which address questions in the field of banking. The first two essays are motivated by the Great Recession, and study key aspects of the experience of commercial banks during this period. One is the impact of liquidity risk on credit supply, and the second is the effect of portfolio …
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A quantitative analysis of shoreline erosion processes, Lake Sakakawea, North Dakota
… shores of both lakes began in 1983 to quantify bank erosion by process (e.g., wave erosion, rainsplash and runoff, and frost-thaw failure). Other data gathered included: pool level fluctuations; wind velocity, direction, and duration; precipita tion; soil moisture; frost penetration; freeze-thaw …
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Three Essays on Traditional and Nontraditional Banking and Portfolio Decisions
… contains three coherent essays in the field of banking. The first paper aims to understand whether and how banks' shift from traditional to nontraditional income sources contributed to the failure of hundreds of U.S. depository institutions between 2008 and 2010. A key ingredient of our …
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Essays on financial stability and the industrial organization of the banking system
… to study how the industrial organization of the banking sector affects the risk-taking behavior of financial intermediaries and the degree of instability within the banking system. In the first chapter, I ask whether the notion that market concentration promotes stability survives when the …
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Empirical Essays on Corporate Financing Behaviors
… financing decisions such as capital structure, bank borrowing, and regulatory capital issuance.</p> <p>Chapter 1. This chapter presents the motivation and structure of the dissertation.</p> <p>Chapter 2. Using a recently developed measure of financial market risk perceptions, I show that risk …
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Vegetation structure and inferred patterns of functional group attrition in a shrub encroached old field and tallgrass prairie mosaic
… and classify plant communities, (2) explore seed bank dynamics and its contribution to old field colonization, and (3) determine the patterns of species and functional group richness and cover in a tallgrass prairie:old field mosaic with varying levels of shrub invasion and assess whether there …
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Influence of riparian vegetation on near-bank flow structure and rates of erosion on a large meandering river
… by the geotechnical properties of the channel banks and floodplains, as well as riparian and in-channel vegetation, modifying rates of erosion and mechanism of bank retreat, often leading to complex planform geometries. While extensive research has been conducted on each of these processes …
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Controls on and Morphodynamic Effects of Width Variations in Bed-load Dominated Alluvial Channels: Experimental and Numerical Study
… a river occurs due to erosion and accretion of banks, within various geomorphic, environmental and anthropogenic contexts, which set the most relevant factors controlling the morphological dynamics of the river corridor. In turn, changes in channel width imply alterations of the river channel …