Do Banks Issue Equity When They Are Poorly Capitalized?

How Well Capitalized Are Well-Capitalized Banks?

How Well Capitalized Are Well-Capitalized Banks? T he wave of bank and savings and loan failures in the 1980s and early 1990s, and the resulting losses to deposit insurance funds, served to highlight the need for banks to hold sufficient capital to survive difficult times. In addition, many argued that deposit insurance made it imperative that banks be better capitalized, since deposit insuranc...

Even larvae act sick when they are poorly.

Bustling around their reef homes, Red Sea dascyllus damselfish (Dascyllus marginatus) do quite well out of their co-habiting arrangement with hood coral (Stylophora pistillata). ‘The coral provide the fish with shelter from predators and a place for social interactions and egg laying’, says Nur Garcia-Herrera, from the Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Germany. Yet the agreement isn’t entirely one sided...

Do criminals go to the hospital when they are shot?

OBJECTIVES To determine whether criminals go to the hospital when they are shot. Such information is needed to check on the accuracy of using hospital emergency room data to estimate non-fatal gunshot wounds. SETTING Five jails across the US. METHODS A survey of inmates being booked into jail, administered by in-house health care staff. RESULTS Over 90% of over 300 criminals who had been ...

Are Those with Darker Personality Traits more Willing to Corrupt When They Feel Anxious?

This unprecedented research endeavors to investigate the relationship between dark personality traits (i.e., narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) and corruption intention through the mediation of anxiety.  Based on the resource conservation theory, it is hypothesized that those higher in dark personality traits are more inclined to corrupt when they feel anxious. Having collected data...

Who do they think they are?