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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"bank holding companies"”.
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Derivatives activities and risk at commercial bank holding companies.
Derivatives activities and risk at commercial bank holding companies.
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Two Essays on Institutional Investors and U.S. Bank Holding Companies
… studies institutional investment in U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs). The first essay examines institutional investing preferences in U.S. banks and the impact of expansion of bank power on the preferences. Institutional investors prefer BHCs that hold more liquid assets, are better …
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The Market Effect of Diversification Mergers by Bank Holding Companies
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Income statement effects of derivative fair value accounting: evidence from bank holding companies
… gains or losses into earnings. Using a sample of bank holding companies, I find evidence that the recognition of the fair-value-based hedging performance measure under SFAS 133 improves the value and risk relevance of accounting earnings. The findings of this study are relevant to the evaluation …
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Banking, law, and American liberalism: the rise and regulation of bank holding companies in the twentieth century
“Banking, Law, and American Liberalism: The Rise and Regulation of Bank Holding Companies in the Twentieth Century” excavates the history of the bank holding company, a corporation that owns or controls one or more United States banks, and the movement to prevent its monopolistic expansion in the …
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The Effect of Operational Control Quality on Operational Efficiency and Cost of Capital: Evidence from U.S. Bank Holding Companies
… risk events have focused the attention of bank managers and regulators on operational risk management practices since the early 2000s. This led the Basel II Accord to recognize operational risk as a separate risk. In this study, I examine whether operational control quality is associated …
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The Impact of Corporate Diversification on the Financial Performance of U.S. Bank Holding Companies Pre and Post the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999
… Act (GLBA), of 1999 has permitted U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs) to operate in non-banking activities that are financial in nature. This dissertation addresses the impact of this across-activity diversification within the U.S. financial services industry on the profitability and the …
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The function and organization of a bank holding company in Japan
… the "Japanese Big Bang". As a result, commercial banks are now allowed to establish a bank holding company and to diversify their financial services through this bank holding company. In 2000 and 2001, Japan's three major city banks each established a bank holding company with full-service …
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Early adoption of accounting standards in the banking industry
I investigate whether U.S. bank holding companies choose early adoption of accounting standards to better access external financing. Both economic intuition and theories suggest that banks are motivated to take measures such as information disclosure to better access capital markets. Examining …
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Valuation of an Untraded Bank Stock
… legislation has been passed which permits branch banking or bank holding companies. With the advent of this legislation the purchase and sale of banks has become quite common. Most banks, especially the smaller ones, do not have an active market in their stock where the law of supply and demand …
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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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The Effects of Mandated Stress-Testing on Bank Risk
… (12 USC 5365(i)(1)) with particular rules on how Bank Holding Companies (BHC’s) are to be supervised. If a BHC has total consolidated assets greater than $50bn then they are required to undergo the Comprehensive Capital Asset Review (CCAR) exercise. If a BHC has total consolidated assets between …
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Essays in Corporate Finance
… that explore topics in corporate finance and banking. Chapter 1 studies the role of board's political connections in corporate misconduct. Leveraging a policy shock in China that mandated politically connected directors to resign from corporate boards, I find that following the disruption in …
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Interface of insurance and banking in European countries
… European financial institutions, in particular, banks and insurance companies. Currently in Europe, the banks are engaging into insurance business, and, the insurance companies, to a lesser effect, are engaging into banking business. These cross-business activities have broken down the long …
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The Interaction of Policy, Credit Demand and Credit Supply in Banking System
… plays an important role in the US financial banking system, which it is interesting to observe the interaction among policy change, credit demand and credit supply. In my first paper, I focus on studying the impact of a new FASB accounting rule called Current Expected Credit Losses (CECL). …
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Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics and Development
… manufacturing firms in Indonesia and massive bank holding companies in the United States are half a world apart), they are tied together by the use of micro data and econometrics to study macro questions with important aggregate implications. These papers reflect a broader push to discipline …