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- Institutions Risk Management, Capital Structure and Lending at Banks
- In this paper, we test how access to the loan sales market affects bank capital structure and lending decisions. Hedging activities in the form of derivatives trading and swap activities - activities that allow firms to manage their market risks - have been shown to influence firm performance and risk
- White papers 2001-10-01
- Risk Management, Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Policy for Financial Institutions
- We develop a framework for analyzing the capital allocation and capital structure decisions facing financial institutions such as banks. Our model incorporates two key features: i) value-maximizing banks have a well-founded concern with risk management; and ii) not all the risks they face can be frictionlessly hedged in the capital...
- White papers 1997-03-17
- Risk Management, Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Policy for Financial Institutions: An Integrated Approach
- This white paper basically deals with developing a framework for analyzing the capital allocation and capital structure decisions facing financial institutions such as banks. The basic model incorporates two key features: value-maximizing banks have a well-founded concern with risk management; and not all the risks they face can be frictionless...
- White papers 2002-01-02
- Risk Management, Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Policy for Insurers and Reinsurers
- This paper builds on Froot and Stein (1998) in developing a framework for analyzing the risk allocation, capital budgeting, and capital structure decisions facing insurers and reinsurers. The model incorporates three key features: value-maximizing insurers and reinsurers face product market as well as capital market imperfections that give rise to...
- White papers 2003-12-01
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- Financial Regulation and Supervision after the Crisis: The Role of the Federal Reserve
- At the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 54th Economic Conference, Chatham, MassachusettsOctober 23, 2009 The theme of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's Economic Conference this year–reevaluating regulatory, supervisory, and central banking policies in the wake of the crisis–is certainly timely. Not much more than a year ago, we and...
- News items 2009-10-23
- Co-alignment between Environment Risk, Corporate Strategy, Capital Structure, and Firm Performance: An Empirical Investigation of Restaurant Firms
- The importance of testing the co-alignment model has been emphasized by several researchers in the past. This study is an attempt to test the model using theories in corporate finance and strategic management, which will also prove the commonalties that exist between these domains of business research. This will help...
- White papers 2002-05-02
- For King and country
- Some very radical prescriptions for dealing with the banking sector to avoid another financial crisis of the magnitude of the one just experienced are flowing in the UK from the most authoritative of sources. That the UK is producing the most revolutionary of responses perhaps isn't surprising, given how badly...
- News items 2009-10-20
- Risk Management In Small Business - Part 2: Reducing Your Operational Risks
- The article asserts that through risk management one can limit the possible financial losses caused by unsuccessful normal business operations. It is essential to contemplate the things which could go wrong within the business and to evaluate the financial cost to one if these events happen. Then one can seek...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- What is Missing from the RMIS Design? Why Enterprise Risk Management Is not Working
- Many risk managers have attempted to take enterprise risk management ERM from a slick consulting pitch to a practical management system. But while ERM has helped many of these professionals improve the strategic structure of their risk financing programs, few have fully achieved their ambitions. One obstacle is the risk...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Credit Risk Metrics : A Forward Looking Approach
- This paper has demonstrated the flexibility to take into account both property and loan specific attributes. This sophisticated model ties market fundamentals and property specific characteristics to specific loan characteristics. The eloquence of this model is that it can be used for an infinite number of different property or loan...
- White papers 2001-09-04
- Enterprise Risk Management In The Financial Services Industry: Still A Long Way To Go
- All businesses are now experiencing the need to successfully practice enterprise risk management ERM, a rigorous approach to assessing and addressing an organization's risks from all sources to increase the value of the enterprise. The paper shows how ERM for financial services managers can help them systematically make such integrated...
- White papers 2000-08-01
- Incentives for Mitigation Investment and More Effective Risk Management: The Need for Public-Private Partnerships
- A key question facing both well-developed industrial countries and emerging economies is how to reduce future disaster losses while still providing financial protection to victims from these events. This paper proposes a strategy for the use of cost-effective risk mitigation measures coupled with insurance and/or new capital market instruments to...
- White papers 2001-02-01
- Financial Innovation and the Management and Regulation of Financial Institutions
- New security designs, improvements in computer telecommunications technology and advances in the theory of finance have led to revolutionary changes in the structure of financial markets and institutions. This paper provides a functional perspective on the dynamics of institutional change and uses a series of examples to illustrate the breadth...
- White papers 1997-03-10
- American Capital Strategies Ltd. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions]. And our first question comes from the line of Sanjay Sakhrani of KBW. Please go ahead. Sanjay Sakhrani – Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Hi. Thanks for taking my question. Just a quick question on the ’08 dividend guidance, how much of the...
- Earnings calls 2007-11-02
- Federated Investors, Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you. We will now conduct a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from the line of Ken Worthington with J.P. Morgan. Please proceed with your question. Kenneth Worthington - J.P. Morgan Hi. Good morning. J. Christopher Donahue...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-28
- The Insurative Model
- The article explains the Insurative Model which is useful in risk management. Capital management and risk management are two sides of the same coin. Conventional finance theory treats them separately. Capital management focuses on delivering the optimal balance sheet, composed of equity and debt, that minimizes the cost of capital....
- White papers 2001-08-01
- BlackRock, Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator [Operator Instructions]. Your first question comes from Craig Siegenthaler with Credit Suisse. Craig Siegenthaler - Credit Suisse Thanks. The performance fee number, you mentioned international equity hedge funds, can you give us some more detail what's in this number in terms of...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-17
- Risk-Adjusted Yardstick May Be Misnamed
- "This paper represents an improvement over the traditional approach to capital structure management. But just as clearly, there are some significant shortcomings.As a consequence, there are grounds for thinking the equity ratios it produces may not be right. The key aim of the risk-adjusted return determine the overall downside risk...
- White papers 1999-10-08
- Equity Portfolio Structure And Design: When The Whole Is Less Than The Sum Of Its Parts
- It has been observed that professional advisors often use large cap. Mid cap. Small cap. Growth value to select portfolio specialists with beat-their-benchmark track records. As a result, the risk is minimized. The question this article tries to address is what is wrong with that? The wrong is that a...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Change on the Horizon for Alternative Asset Management Industry
- Roger Ehrenberg submits: Hedge funds HFs, private equity firms PEs and venture capital funds VCs are facing historic challenges, many of which are of their own doing. It is easy to point to difficult market conditions and conclude that their problems are largely due to the environment. This would...
- External links 2008-09-07
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