ACPR research seminars

The ACPR Studies Department organizes a series of academic seminars where invited or ACPR-affiliated researchers present their work on regulatory or financial risk issues. The seminars are open to everyone.

Registration by email at seminaire-recherche-acpr@banque-france.fr is free but compulsory in order to attend. If you wish to be informed of upcoming events, please send an email to the same address.

The ACPR also hosts the monthly seminars of the ACPR research Initiative: the page dedicated to the ACPR seminars is available here.

 

NEXT EVENT

Thursday 19 september 2024 at 3pm: théo nicolas (ACPR/DEAR) 

"THE BRIGHT SIDE OF RELATIONSHIP LENDING: COOPERATIVE BANKS AND CORPORATE LOANS"

Discussant: PIERLUIGI MURRO (LUISS)

Please note that this seminar will take place in a hybrid mode: the seminar will take place at the ACPR 4 Pl. de Budapest, 75009 Paris, and will also be streamed online.

(Free) registration (for both in person or online participation) is compulsory by mail at SEMINAIRE-RECHERCHE-ACPR@acpr.banque-france.fr.

If you opt for online participation, the connection details will be sent to you in the following days.

 

Abstract :

This paper examines whether cooperative banks have different loan terms from commercial banks for corporate loans. We find that cooperative banks charge higher rates and require less collateral than commercial banks. However, we show that relationship lending has opposite effects on loan terms depending on the type of bank. Longer relationships reduce interest rates and collateral requirements for cooperative banks, but increase these lending conditions for commercial banks. Furthermore, we find that the beneficial effects of relationship lending for cooperative banks are amplified for financially fragile firms. We therefore support the view that cooperative banks are initially more expensive, but that relationship lending allows them to overcome this over time and ultimately pass on information gains to borrowers through better lending terms.

 

LASt EVENT

Tuesday 11 july 2023 at 10.30am: Eric Vansteenberghe (ACPR/DEAR) 

"Insurance Supervision under Climate Change: A Pioneers Detection MethOD"

Discussant: Arthur Charpentier (Université du Québec à Montréal - UQAM)

Please note that this seminar will take place in a hybrid mode: the seminar will take place at the ACPR 4 Pl. de Budapest, 75009 Paris, and will also be streamed online.

(Free) registration (for both in person or online participation) is compulsory by mail at SEMINAIRE-RECHERCHE-ACPR@acpr.banque-france.fr.

If you opt for online participation, the connection details will be sent to you in the following days.

Abstract :

This research introduces a novel supervisory tool, the Pioneers Detection Method, aimed at enhancing resilience in insurance markets dealing with the uncertainties of climate change. The paper builds on a theoretical model of an insurance market, where independent experts set premiums based on their individual risk evaluations. The segmented nature of the private insurance market hinders the understanding of the tail parameter of the loss distribution, and there's no direct way to eliminate bias, as extreme events are infrequent. The proposed supervisory tool uses temporal changes to consolidate expert opinions, pinpointing those who rapidly and accurately identify extreme climate-related events. The effectiveness of the Pioneers Detection Method is affirmed through a series of simulations, where it surpasses traditional pooling methods within a Bayesian framework. This supervisory approach also proves to be the most beneficial in improving welfare in a fragmented insurance market comprised of a few private insurance companies.

Publication Seminars
Determinants of banks’ liquidity: a French perspective on market and regulatory ratio interactions

The objective of the paper is to investigate how banks adjust the structure of their balance sheet as a response to a funding shock and to propose a methodology for projecting banks’ liquidity ratios in a top-down stress test scenario. In line with a...

  • Published on 12/17/2019
  • FR
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Do Distressed Banks Really Gamble for Resurrection?
  • Published on 11/15/2019
  • FR
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Lower capital requirements as a policy tool to support credit to SMEs :Evidence from a policy experiment

Starting in 2014 with the implementation of the European Commission Capital Requirement Directive, banks operating in the Euro area were benefiting from a 25% reduction (the Supporting Factor or "SF" hereafter) in own funds requirements...

  • Published on 11/14/2019
  • FR
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Crisis and contagion in financial networks: a dynamic approach

We study the dynamics of a connected banking sector where the nancial links between banks are explicitly modelled, including the liquidation procedures in the case of the failure of an individual bank. This model of banking network allows us to...

  • Published on 08/13/2019
  • FR
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How does currency diversification explain bank leverage procyclicality ?

The amplitude of leverage procyclicality is heterogeneous across banks and across countries. This paper introduces international diversification of bank balance sheet as a factor of this observed heterogeneity, with a special emphasis on currency...

  • Published on 08/09/2019
  • FR
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Liquidity at Risk: Joint Stress Testing of Solvency and Liquidity
  • Published on 06/12/2019
  • FR
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Time matters: how default resolution times impact final loss rates

Using access to a unique bank loss data base, we show positive dependencies of default resolution times (DRTs) of defaulted bank loan contracts and final loan loss rates (losses given default, LGDs). Due to this interconnection, LGD predictions made at...

  • Published on 06/05/2019
  • FR
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Bank Concentration and Product Market Competition

This paper documents that concentration in the banking sector is associated with less competitive product market outcomes in non-financial sectors. We argue that a distinguishing feature of credit concentration is the higher incidence of competing...

  • Published on 03/08/2019
  • FR
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Insurers as Asset Managers and Systemic Risk

Financial intermediaries often provide guarantees that resemble out-of-the-money put options, exposing them to tail risk. Using the U.S. life insurance industry as a laboratory, we present a model in which variable annuity (VA) guarantees and...

  • Published on 03/04/2019
  • FR
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The Private Production of Safe Assets

Do claims on the private sector serve the role of safe assets? We answer this question using high-frequency panel data on prices and quantities of certificates of deposit (CDs) issued in Europe. We find that only very short-term private securities...

  • Published on 01/24/2019
  • FR
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