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Payout Restrictions and Bank Risk-Shifting

27 Sep 2024

To analyze the joint choice of payout and risk-taking policies, we extend the model and allow the bank to make a risk-taking decision beyond the payout decision. [...] The analysis of the interaction between payout restrictions and risk-taking contributes to the strand of the literature focusing on bank regulation and risk-taking decisions. [...] 3 Empirical Strategy The aim of the remainder of the paper consists of empirically testing the theoretical channels of payout restrictions outlined in the previous section. [...] This ensures that the CDS response we measure is not driven by valuation effects pertaining to the value of the underlying collateral, in the case of secured bonds, or the value of equity, in the case of convertible bonds. [...] The lower number of observations for the probability of default, PD, compared to the committed amount on Panel A is due to one bank in the sample which does not rely on the internal rating based approach.
banking, payout restrictions, risk-shifting, prudential regulation

Authors

Fulvia Fringuellotti and Thomas Kroen

Pages
83
Published in
United States of America

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