Market Indicators, Bank Fragility, and Indirect Market Discipline
Reint E. Gropp, Jukka M. Vesala, Giuseppe Vulpes
Economic Policy Review,
No. 2,
2004
Abstract
A paper presented at the October 2003 conference “Beyond Pillar 3 in International Banking Regulation: Disclosure and Market Discipline of Financial Firms“ cosponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business at Columbia Business School.
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Exporting Financial Institutions Management via Foreign Direct Investment Mergers and Acquisitions
Allen N. Berger, Claudia M. Buch, G. DeLong
Journal of International Money and Finance,
No. 3,
2004
Abstract
We test the relevance of the new trade theory and the traditional theory of comparative advantage for explaining the geographic patterns of international M&As of financial institutions between 1985 and 2000. The data provide statistically significant support for both theories. We also find evidence that the U.S. has idiosyncratic comparative advantages at both exporting and importing financial institutions management.
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The State of the World Economy and the German Economy in Fall of 2003 - Report of the six economic research institutes
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 14,
2003
Abstract
Die weltwirtschaftliche Produktion nimmt seit dem letzten Frühjahr beschleunigt zu. Die während der ersten Monate 2003 dämpfenden Faktoren sind entfallen, die Wirtschaftspolitik stimuliert weiter, und die Perspektiven werden günstiger beurteilt. Vorreiter der Erholung sind wieder die USA. In Japan verläuft die Entwicklung überraschend günstig, und in Südostasien wurde die Schwächephase überwunden. Während die Produktion in den EU-Beitrittsländern anhaltend kräftig stieg, verharrte der Euroraum in der Stagnation....
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Empirical methods for analysising the risks of financial crises
Axel Brüggemann, Thomas Linne
IWH-Sonderhefte,
No. 3,
2003
Abstract
he vulnerability against financial crises of EU candidate countries and other Central and East European countries is on the agenda of the Institute for Economic Research Halle. Research concentrates on the developing of effective early warning indicators and includes a strong orientation on quantitative methods. This volume presents selected methods for the analyse of financial fragility. The finding complete the signals approach, which is used by the IWH for routine checks of the risk potential of EU candidate an other countries of the region. The four studies presented here were written by the scientific staff of the IWH and by guest researchers. Their objective is to deepen insights into selected problems of financial fragility by using alternative methods.
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Rating Agency Actions and the Pricing of Debt and Equity of European Banks: What Can we Infer About Private Sector Monitoring of Bank Soundness?
Reint E. Gropp, A. J. Richards
Economic Notes,
No. 3,
2001
Abstract
The recent consultative papers by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has raised the possibility of an explicit role for external rating agencies in the assessment of the credit risk of banks’ assets, including interbank claims. Any judgement on the merits of this proposal calls for an assessment of the information contained in credit ratings and its relationship to other publicly available information on the financial health of banks and borrowers. We assess this issue via an event study of rating change announcements by leading international rating agencies, focusing on rating changes for European banks for which data on bond and equity prices are available. We find little evidence of announcement effects on bond prices, which may reflect the lack of liquidity in bond markets in Europe during much of our sample period. For equity prices, we find strong effects of ratings changes, although some of our results may suffer from contamination by contemporaneous news events. We also test for pre-announcement and post-announcement effects, but find little evidence of either. Overall, our results suggest that ratings agencies may perform a useful role in summarizing and obtaining non-public information on banks and that monitoring of banks’ risk through bond holders appears to be relatively limited in Europe. The relatively weak monitoring by bondholders casts some doubt on the effectiveness of a subordinated debt requirement as a supervisory tool in the European context, at least until bond markets are more developed.
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Stock markets in Central and Eastern Europe: Investors euphoric despite institutional obstacles
Thomas Linne
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 1,
1996
Abstract
Die Massenprivatisierung in verschiedenen Ländern Mittel- und Osteuropas hat entscheidende Impulse für die Entwicklung der Aktienmärkte gegeben. Die anfängliche Begeisterung ausländischer Investoren ist angesichts der Liquiditätsprobleme dieser Märkte übertrieben. Für die Kapitalnachfrage der inländischen Unternehmen bedeutet die geringe Liquidität eine bindende Restriktion bei der Kapitalbeschaffung. Als Ausweichreaktion streben deshalb einige Unternehmen eine Börsennotierung im Ausland an.
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