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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961232603321

Autore

Boot Arnoud

Titolo

Banking and Trading / / Arnoud Boot, Lev Ratnovski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012

ISBN

9781475512489

1475512481

9781475512465

1475512465

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (49 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

IMF working paper ; ; WP/12/238

Altri autori (Persone)

RatnovskiLev

Disciplina

332.1/52

Soggetti

Banks and banking

Stocks

Bank soundness

Banking

Banks and Banking

Banks

Brokerage

Capital and Ownership Structure

Credit

Depository Institutions

Economic & financial crises & disasters

Finance

Finance: General

Financial Crises

Financial crises

Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation

Financial institutions

Financial Risk and Risk Management

Financial Risk Management

Financial risk management

Financial sector policy and analysis

Financing Policy

General Financial Markets: Government Policy and Regulation

Goodwill

Industries: Financial Services

Investment Banking

Lines of credit



Loans

Micro Finance Institutions

Monetary economics

Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General

Money and Monetary Policy

Money

Moral hazard

Mortgages

Public finance & taxation

Ratings and Ratings Agencies

Tax incentives

Taxation

Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General

Value of Firms

Venture Capital

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Relationship to the Literature; III. Model; A. Approach; B. Credit Constraints; C. Banking; D. Trading; IV. Benefits of Conglomeration; V. Time Inconsistency of Capital Allocation; A. Setup: Long-term Banking; B. The Consequences of Time Inconsistency; C. Cost of Conglomeration under Time Inconsistency; VI. Trading as Risk-Shifting; A. Setup: Risky Trading; B. Risk-Shifting; C. The Interaction of Time Inconsistency and Risk Shifting; VII. Discussion; A. Front-loaded Income in Relationship Banking; B. External Equity and Internal Capital Allocation

C. Policy Implications VIII. Conclusion; References; Figures; 1. The Timeline; 2. The Timeline with Time Inconsistency; 3. Relationship Banking Allocation R as a Function of Trading Opportunities; 4. The Volume of Banking (R) and Trading (T), and Profits (Π)under Conglomerated Banking; 5. The Volumes of Banking (R)and Trading (T), and Profits (Π) with Risk-shifting; 6. Time Inconsistency Arises due to a Higher Return to Trading under Risk-shifting ("Effect 1"); 7. Risk-shifting Arises due to a Higher Volume of Trading, Driven by Time Inconsistency ("Effect 2")

Sommario/riassunto

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.