The Effect of Bank Organizational Risk-management on the Price of Non-deposit Debt
Iftekhar Hasan, Emma Peng, Maya Waisman, Meng Yan
Journal of Financial Services Research,
April
2024
Abstract
We test whether organizational risk management matters to bondholders of U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs), and find that debt financing costs increase when the BHC has lower-quality risk management. Consistent with bailouts giving rise to moral hazard among bank creditors, we find that bondholders put less emphasis on risk management in large institutions for which bailouts are expected ex-ante. BHCs that maintained strong risk management before the financial crisis had lower debt costs during and after the crisis, compared to other banks. Overall, quality risk management can curtail risk exposures at BHCs and result in lower debt costs.
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Correlation Scenarios and Correlation Stress Testing
Natalie Packham, Fabian Wöbbeking
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,
January
2023
Abstract
We develop a general approach for stress testing correlations of financial asset portfolios. The correlation matrix of asset returns is specified in a parametric form, where correlations are represented as a function of risk factors, such as country and industry factors. A sparse factor structure linking assets and risk factors is built using Bayesian variable selection methods. Regular calibration yields a joint distribution of economically meaningful stress scenarios of the factors. As such, the method also lends itself as a reverse stress testing framework: using the Mahalanobis distance or Highest Density Regions (HDR) on the joint risk factor distribution allows to infer worst-case correlation scenarios. We give examples of stress tests on a large portfolio of European and North American stocks.
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Financial Analysts' Career Concerns and the Cost of Private Debt
Bill Francis, Iftekhar Hasan, Liuling Liu, Qiang Wu, Yijiang Zhao
Journal of Corporate Finance,
April
2021
Abstract
Career-concerned analysts are averse to firm risk. Not only does higher firm risk require more effort to analyze the firm, thus constraining analysts' ability to earn more remuneration through covering more firms, but it also jeopardizes their research quality and career advancement. As such, career concerns incentivize analysts to pressure firms to undertake risk-management activities, thus leading to a lower cost of debt. Consistent with our hypothesis, we find a negative association between analyst career concerns and bank loan spreads. In addition, our mediation analysis suggests that this association is achieved through the channel of reducing firm risk. Additional tests suggest that the effect of analyst career concerns on loan spreads is more pronounced for firms with higher analyst coverage. Our study is the first to identify the demand for risk management as a key channel through which analysts help reduce the cost of debt.
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Taken by Storm: Business Financing and Survival in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Emek Basker, Javier Miranda
Journal of Economic Geography,
Nr. 6,
2018
Abstract
We use Hurricane Katrina’s damage to the Mississippi coast in 2005 as a natural experiment to study business survival in the aftermath of a capital-destruction shock. We find very low survival rates for businesses that incurred physical damage, particularly for small firms and less-productive establishments. Conditional on survival, larger and more-productive businesses that rebuilt their operations hired more workers than their smaller and less-productive counterparts. Auxiliary evidence from the Survey of Business Owners suggests that the differential size effect is tied to the presence of financial constraints, pointing to a socially inefficient level of exits and to distortions of allocative efficiency in response to this negative shock. Over time, the size advantage disappeared and market mechanisms seem to prevail.
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Do Managerial Risk-taking Incentives Influence Firms' Exchange Rate Exposure?
Bill Francis, Iftekhar Hasan, Delroy M. Hunter, Yun Zhu
Journal of Corporate Finance,
2017
Abstract
There is scant evidence on how risk-taking incentives impact specific firm risks. This has implications for board oversight of managerial risk taking, firms' development of comparative advantage in taking particular risks, and compensation design. We examine this question for exchange rate risk. Using multiple identification strategies, we find that vega increases exchange rate exposure for purely domestic and globally engaged firms. Vega's impact increases with international operations, declines post-SOX, and is robust to firm-level governance. Our results suggest that evidence that exposure reduces firm value can be viewed, in part, as a wealth transfer from shareholders and debt-holders to managers.
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The Impact of Credit Default Swap Trading on Loan Syndication
Daniel Streitz
Review of Finance,
Nr. 1,
2016
Abstract
We analyze the impact of credit default swap (CDS) trading on bank syndication activity. Theoretically, the effect of CDS trading is ambiguous: on the one hand, CDS can improve risk-sharing and hence be a more flexible risk management tool than loan syndication; on the other hand, CDS trading can reduce bank monitoring incentives. We document that banks are less likely to syndicate loans and retain a larger loan fraction once CDS are actively traded on the borrower’s debt. We then discern the risk management and the moral hazard channel. We find no evidence that the reduced likelihood to syndicate loans is a result of increased moral hazard problems.
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Quantitative Bewertung des Ausfallrisikos von Forderungsportfolios gewerblicher Unternehmen. Eine Analyse unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Schätzunsicherheit und einer fehlenden eigenen Datenbasis im Unternehmen
Henry Dannenberg
IWH-Sonderhefte,
Nr. 2,
2012
Abstract
Gewerbliche Unternehmen werden durch verschiedene Risiken gefährdet. Das Forderungsausfallrisiko ist isoliert betrachtet häufig zwar nicht das wichtigste Einzelrisiko, allerdings treten Forderungsausfälle oftmals nicht unabhängig von anderen Risiken auf. Aufgrund solcher Abhängigkeiten ist die Quantifizierung dieses Risikos im Rahmen eines ganzheitlichen Risikomanagements notwendig, wenn der Eigenkapitalbedarf und damit die Risikotragfähigkeit eines Unternehmens bewertet werden soll. Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, die quantitative Bewertung des Forderungsportfoliorisikos gewerblicher Unternehmen zu ermöglichen.
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CO2-Navigator – ein Softwaretool zur Unterstützung von Investitionsoptionen zur Emissionsreduktion und zum Management von Klimarisiken
Edeltraud Günther, G. Weber, M. Nowack, Wilfried Ehrenfeld
Klimaschutz und Anpassung an die Klimafolgen: Strategien, Maßnahmen und Anwendungsbeispiele,
2009
Abstract
Die globale Erwärmung und zunehmende klimapolitische Maßnahmen sind für viele Unternehmen mit Risiken, aber auch mit Chancen verbunden. Der Lehrstuhl für Betriebliche Umweltökonomie an der TU Dresden und das Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle untersuchten im Rahmen des BMBF-Projekts „Unternehmenssteuerung im klimapolitischen Umfeld (CO2-Navigator)“ die Frage, wie Unternehmen mit diesen Herausforderungen umgehen können. Konkretes Anliegen des Projektverbunds war, den Unternehmen eine Hilfestellung anzubieten, a) mögliche Strategien zur Emissionsminderung und mittelfristige Anpassungen an veränderte Umfeldbedingungen zu erarbeiten, b) deren wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen abzuschätzen und c) darauf aufbauend Entscheidungen für die Praxis ableiten zu können. Die Kernelemente des Forschungsprojekts, das Risikomanagement und die Bewertung von Anpassungsstrategien mit dem Realoptionsansatz sowie die im Rahmen des Projekts entstandene Software CO2-Navigator werden im vorliegenden Beitrag näher beschrieben.
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