G2 - Financial Institutions and Services

• Estimation of the Default Risk of Publicly Traded Canadian Companies

  Staff Working Paper 2006-28 Georges Dionne, Sadok Laajimi, Sofiane Mejri, Madalina Petrescu

  Two models of default risk are prominent in the financial literature: Merton's structural model and Altman's non-structural model.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Credit and credit aggregates, Debt management, Econometric and statistical methods, Financial markets, Recent economic and financial developments JEL Code(s): G, G2, G21, G24, G28, G3, G33

• Examining the Trade-Off between Settlement Delay and Intraday Liquidity in Canada's LVTS: A Simulation Approach

  Staff Working Paper 2006-20 Neville Arjani

  The author explores a fundamental trade-off that occurs between settlement delay and intraday liquidity in the daily operation of large-value payment systems (LVPS), with specific application to Canada's Large Value Transfer System (LVTS).

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Payment clearing and settlement systems JEL Code(s): E, E4, E47, G, G2, G21

• Ownership Concentration and Competition in Banking Markets

  Staff Working Paper 2006-7 Alexandra Lai, Raphael Solomon

  Many countries prohibit large shareholdings in their domestic banks.The authors examine whether such a restriction restrains competition in a duopolistic loan market. Blockholders may influence managers' output decisions by choosing capital structure, as in Brander and Lewis (1986).

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Financial institutions, Financial services, Financial system regulation and policies JEL Code(s): G, G2, G21, G28, G3, G32, L, L1, L10

• Subordinated Debt and Market Discipline in Canada

  Staff Working Paper 2005-40 Greg Caldwell

  The author documents the use by Canadian banks of subordinated debt (SD) as a capital instrument.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Financial institutions JEL Code(s): G, G2, G21, G28

• Degree of Internationalization and Performance: An Analysis of Canadian Banks

  Staff Working Paper 2005-32 Walid Hejazi, Eric Santor

  The international business literature measures the link between the degree of internationalization (DOI) of a firm's activities and its performance.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Financial institutions JEL Code(s): F, F2, F23, G, G2, G21

• The Impact of Unanticipated Defaults in Canada's Large Value Transfer System

  Staff Working Paper 2005-25 Darcey McVanel

  Canada's Large Value Transfer System (LVTS) is designed to meet international risk-proofing standards at a minimum cost to participants in terms of collateral requirements.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Financial institutions, Payment clearing and settlement systems JEL Code(s): E, E4, E44, E47, G, G2, G21

• A Search Model of Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, and Unemployment

  Staff Working Paper 2005-24 Robin Boadway, Oana Secrieru, Marianne Vigneault

  The authors develop a search model of venture capital in which the number of successful matches of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists (VCs) at any moment in time is a function of the number of entrepreneurs searching for funds, the number of VCs searching for entrepreneurs, and the number of vacancies posted by each VC.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Financial markets, Fiscal policy, Labour markets JEL Code(s): D, D8, D82, G, G1, G18, G2, G24, H, H2, H21, J, J6, J64

• Pocket Banks and Out-of-Pocket Losses: Links between Corruption and Contagion

  Staff Working Paper 2005-23 Raphael Solomon

  The author describes a model with a corrupt banking system, in which bankers knowingly lend at market interest rates to back projects riskier than the market rate indicates.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Financial institutions, Financial stability JEL Code(s): D, D8, D82, G, G1, G19, G2, G21

• Bank Failures and Bank Fundamentals: A Comparative Analysis of Latin America and East Asia during the Nineties using Bank-Level Data

  Staff Working Paper 2005-19 Marco Arena

  The author develops the first comparative empirical study of bank failures during the nineties between East Asia and Latin America using bank-level data, in order to address the following two questions: (i) To what extent did individual bank conditions explain bank failures? (ii) Did mainly the weakest banks, in terms of their fundamentals, fail in the crisis countries?

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Financial institutions JEL Code(s): G, G2, N, N2

• Efficiency and Economies of Scale of Large Canadian Banks

  Staff Working Paper 2005-13 Jason Allen, Ying Liu

  The authors measure the economies of scale of Canada's six largest banks and their costefficiency over time. Using a unique panel data set from 1983 to 2003, they estimate pooled translog cost functions and derive measures of relative efficiency and economies of scale.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Financial institutions JEL Code(s): C, C3, C33, D, D2, D24, G, G2, G21