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Contemporary Financial Intermediation
Contemporary Financial Intermediation, Second Edition, brings a unique analytical approach to the subject of banks and banking. This completely revised and updated edition expands the scope of the typical bank management course by addressing all types of deposit-type financial institutions, and by explaining the why of intermediation rather than simply describing institutions, regulations, and market phenomena. This analytic approach strikes at the heart of financial intermediation by explaining why financial intermediaries exist and what they do. Specific regulations, economies, and policies will change, but the underlying philosophical foundations remain the same. This approach enables stu...
A Re-examination of the Effectiveness of Dividend Policy
Based upon a generalized rates of return generating process, the correct functional forms of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) for 85 individual mutual funds are statistically identified. The impacts of the functional form on the estimates of Jensen performance measure, beta coefficient and the unsystematic risk are also explored in detail.
Commercial Bank Financial Policies and Their Impact on Market-determined Measures of Risk
This paper investigates the relationship between certain accounting measures that purport to reflect a firm's risk and two market-based measures of risk. The firms examined are commercial banks and bank holding companies. Some commonly used ratios to indicate risk in banking are capital to total assets, loans to deposits, liquid assets to total assets, and loan losses to total loans. These and other measures are included in multiple regression equations using systematic risk (beta) and total risk (standard deviation of return) as dependent variables. Results indicate that the accounting measures do explain from 25% to 43% of the variation in the market-based risk measures for banks. Signs of the estimated coefficients are usually consistent with expectations, supporting the conventional views of the usefulness of these ratios in measuring the riskiness of a bank.
Managing Risk in Thrift Institutions
Even if thrift institutions were exposed only to interest rate risk, gap management using simple duration would be an imperfect method, particularly for callable assets and liabilities. Duration measures interest rate risk for parallel shifts in the yield curve, but actual yield curve shifts should not be, and usually are not, parallel. An alternative to duration is a multi-factor model such as the Arbitrage Pricing Model (APT). An empirical investigation of a sample of large thrifts disclosed that they are exposed to APT factors such as inflation, investor confidence, and the term structure. The level of thrift exposure to these risk factors is twice that of the average industrial company and thrifts also exhibit an unusually large amount of non-systematic risk.
