STATUTORY TRUSTS AND INSOLVENCY

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Jin Cao: Illiquidity, Insolvency, and Banking Regulation Illiquidity, Insolvency, and Banking Regulation

This paper provides a compact framework for banking regulation analysis in the presence of uncertainty between systemic liquidity and solvency shocks. Extending the work by Cao & Illing (2009a, b), it is shown that systemic liquidity shortage arises endogenously as part of the inferior mixed strategy equilibrium. The paper compares different traditional regulatory policies which intend to fix t...

Deflation Caused by Bank Insolvency

The Japanese economy has suffered from persistent deflation since the mid-1990s, when the banking system fell into serious undercapitalization. In Germany and in China, worries about impending deflation have emerged, along with fear of prospective or hidden bank insolvency. In this paper I present a simple model in which bank insolvency causes deflation. During a period of bank insolvency, bank...

Banking on Reciprocity: Deposit Insurance and Insolvency

There is an empirical connection between deposit insurance, risktaking, and insolvency. We argue that if banks maximize profit this amounts to a puzzle (even taking into account that deposit insurance decreases incentives for customers to monitor banks). However, we show that the empirical regularities can be well captured if bankers are motivated by reciprocity towards their customer base.

Statutory Retirement Age and

As societies age, pension reforms become a central issue. One proposition is to extend worklife. However, due to the endogenous depreciation of human capital in many countries the effective retirement age is even below the present statutory retirement age. We analyze this effect in a putty-putty human capital vintage model where the economic retirement age is endogenous. While a higher rate of ...