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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Bank failures"”.
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Minimising Bank Failures in Ghana Through Effective Regulatory Compliance Monitoring
… compliance monitoring framework minimise bank failures in Ghana?” The main aim of the research was to meet the objectives of examining the existing Regulatory Framework for banks in Ghana, identifying the monitoring framework of the Central Bank (Bank of Ghana), identifying the soundness …
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Extreme Value Theory with an Application to Bank Failures through Contagion
This study attempts to quantify the shocks to a banking network and analyze the transfer of shocks through the network. We consider two sources of shocks: external shocks due to market and macroeconomic factors which impact the entire banking system, and idiosyncratic shocks due to failure of a …
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Essays on repurchase agreements, bailouts, and the macroeconomics effects of bank failures
… optimal intervention completely isolates shadow-banking intermediaries from a crisis. In fact, optimal public sector intervention imposes costs on money market funds by requiring them to liquidate some collateral. On the other hand, a commitment to no bailouts contributes to financial instability …
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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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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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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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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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The Federal Banking Regulators: Agency Capture, Regulatory Failure, And Industry Collapse During The 2008 Financial Crisis
… the process of agency capture at four federal bank regulatory agencies leading up to the 2008 financial crisis: the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve, The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and The Office of Thrift Supervision. Though public administration and …
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Essays on foreign currency risk management
… management of corporate firms and commercial banks. It is comprised of two essays. The first essay investigates what determines firms’ foreign currency spot net asset positions, derivatives hedging and synthetic hedging positions. We build a model that anticipates a firm’s market timing in …
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Corporate Governance and Bank Performance, Valuation, and Risk Evidence from the MENA Banking Sectors
… to achieve and maintain public trust in banks in particular, where poor corporate governance can contribute to bank failures, which in turn poses significant macroeconomic consequences. Due to the important financial intermediation role of banks, the public have a high degree of …
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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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The impacts of thermokarst activity on a stream in the McMurdo Dry Valleys
… degradation (permafrost thaw features) along the banks of Crescent Stream in Taylor Valley. In 2012, a large stretch of the West Branch of Crescent Stream was found to have significant thermokarst bank failures, while the adjacent East Branch was found to be unaffected. The thermokarst impacts …
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The impact of change in the definition of bank capital according to Basel 3
… the impact of the change in the definition of bank capital according to Basel 3. The 2008 financial crisis exposed the flaws in the global regulatory and supervision framework and also showed that Basel 2 could not fully protect against bank failures. In order to address the gaps, loopholes and …
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An Examination and Analysis of Bank Corporate Governance Regulation in The Gambia: A Grounded Theory Approach
An Examination and Analysis of Bank Corporate Governance Regulation in The Gambia: A Grounded Theory Approach Abstract The purpose of this research is to carry out an empirical investigation of bank corporate governance regulation in The Gambia. The aim is to determine what contributions, if any, …
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An Investigation into Operational Risk Mitigation in the United Arab Emirates Commercial Banking Industry: Case Study Approach
… is the well-known catastrophic failure of large banks such as BCCI, Barings and Indymac, as well as the recent Global Financial Crisis. One of the main drivers behind such bank failures was the failure of the banks' managements to manage effectively and efficiently their operational risk …
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The fluvial dynamics of compound meander bends
… of mean flow, turbulence, bed morphology, bank failures and channel migration in compound loops is poorly understood. In particular, field studies of this interaction over the timescale of planform evolution are lacking. The research presented here examines the co-evolution of flow, bed …
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The impact of competition and internal corporate governance mechanism on bank performance: the case of North American and European countries
… thesis examined the effect of antitrust law and bank concentration on European and North American bank performance and managerial slack. This study empirically investigated the interrelated issues of antitrust policy, competition, and corporate governance and showed their significant roles in …