Banking and trading:
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Main Author: Boot, Arnoud W. A. 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Washington, D.C.] International Monetary Fund ©2012
Series:IMF working paper WP/12/238
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Item Description:Title from PDF title page (IMF Web site, viewed Oct. 5, 2012). - "Research Department.". - "October 2012."
We study the effects of a bank's engagement in trading. Traditional banking is relationship-based: not scalable, long-term oriented, with high implicit capital, and low risk (thanks to the law of large numbers). Trading is transactions-based: scalable, shortterm, capital constrained, and with the ability to generate risk from concentrated positions. When a bank engages in trading, it can use its 'spare' capital to profitablity expand the scale of trading. However, there are two inefficiencies. A bank may allocate too much capital to trading ex-post, compromising the incentives to build relationships ex-ante. And a bank may use trading for risk-shifting. Financial development augments the scalability of trading, which initially benefits conglomeration, but beyond some point inefficiencies dominate. The deepending of the financial markets in recent decades leads trading in banks to become increasingly risky, so that problems in managing and regulating trading in banks will persist for the foreseeable future. The analysis has implications for capital regulation, subsidiarization, and scope and scale restrictions in banking
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Physical Description:48 pages
ISBN:9781475512472
1475512473

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