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Lehman Brothers Case
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Lehman Brothers Case
EVEN by the standards of the worst financial crisis for at least a generation, the
events of Sunday September 14th 2008 and the day before were extraordinary. The
weekend began with hopes that a deal could be struck, with or without government
backing, to save Lehman Brothers, Americas fourth-largest investment bank. Early
Monday morning Lehman filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It has more
than $613 billion of debt.() Lehman Brothers one of the oldest and the most
successful investment bankssuccessful investment banks
The biggest worry is the effect on derivatives markets, particularly the giant one for
credit-default swaps. Lehman is a top-ten counterparty in CDSs, holding contracts
with a notional value of almost $800 billion. On Sunday, banks called in their
derivatives traders to assess their exposures to Lehman and work on mitigating
risks. The Securities and Exchange Commission, Lehmans main regulator, said it is
working with the bank to protect clients and trading partners and to maintain
orderly markets.
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Lehman Brothers Case
This left Lehman with no option but to prepare for bankruptcy. Though the bank
has access to a Fed lending facility, introduced after Bears takeover by JP
Morgan Chase, the collapse of its share price left it unable to raise new equity
and facing crippling downgrades from rating agencies.
Moreover, rival firms that had continued to trade with it in recent weeks at
the urging of regulators had begun to pull away in the past few days.
The inability to find a buyer is a huge blow to Lehmans 25,000 employees, who The inability to find a buyer is a huge blow to Lehmans 25,000 employees, who
own a third of the companys now-worthless stock; in such a difficult
environment, most will struggle to find work at other financial firms. It also
makes for an ignominious end to the career of Dick Fuld, Lehmans boss since
1994, who until last year was viewed as one of Wall Streets smartest
managers.
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Lehman losses on the 13th September, 2008
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Lehman Brothers headquarters in New York City on
September 15, 2008
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Some Lehman Brothers' employees leaving the bank's
Canary Wharf office in London, England
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Financial crisis an investment banker of Goldman
Sachs, London
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Lack of confidence on the financial markets
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Sources: Bank of England, Bloomberg, Chicago Board Options Exchange, Debt Management Office, London Stock Exchange, Merrill Lynch, Thomson Datastream and Bank calculations.
(a) The liquidity index shows the number of standard deviations from the mean. It is a simple unweighted average of nine liquidity measures, normalised on the period 19992004. The series shown is an exponentially weighted moving average. The indicator is more reliable after 1997 as it is based on a greater number of underlying measures. The recent fall in the indicator is largely due to a sharp decline in the interbank market liquidity measure.
US, UK, EU credit spreads
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The uncertainty in the economy and CDS spread
The evolution of the CDS spread (mean values)
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Source: Eichengreen, Moby, Nedeljkovic and Sarno (2009).
The uncertainty in the economy and CDS spread
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Source: Eichengreen, Moby, Nedeljkovic and Sarno (2009).
Lack of confidence on financial markets
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1/12/08US INTEREST RATES
J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D J
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US FEDERAL FUNDS TARGET RATE - M
US INTERBANK 3 MTH (LDN:BBA) - O
US DISCOUNT RATE
US T-Bill 3M
US INTERBANK O/N (LDN:BBA) - OFF
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J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D J
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ECB REPO
EURIBOR 3 M
ECB MARGINAL LENDING
ECB OVERNIGHT DEPOSIT
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Uncertainty and increasing cost of funding
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Source: Eichengreen, Moby, Nedeljkovic and Sarno (2009).
Losses of the banking sector
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Source: Bank of England
Recapitaliastion has been done:
firstly by take over and mergers
Then by state intervention:
Nationalization (investment in
the equity)
Sub-Prime Crisis: Banks losses & Capital raised since 07/2007
JP Morgan
Wells Fargo
RBS
Morgan Stanley
Lehman Brothers
Credit Suisse
IKB
Fortis
BNP Paribas
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Source: Bloomberg
10/11/2008
Losses of the banking sector and resolution policies
the equity)
Guarantees
The amounts at stake are however
limited when compared to assets still
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AMERICAS
EUROPE
ASIA
Wachovia
Citigroup
Merryll Lynch
Washington Mutual
UBS
HSBC
Bank of America
National City
JP Morgan
Credit Losses & Writedowns (USD bn) Capital raised (USD bn)
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Crises and effect on banking lending
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Crises and effect on banking lending
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Source: IMF
Banking crisis and oil prices
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1/12/08OIL PRICE AND USD|EUR EXCHANGE RATE
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CONFIDENCE: US AND EUROZONE
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Confidence is affected in the real economy
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Source :IMF; WEO Nov 08
Europe in recession
Bad news for investment
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EMU: GDP Growth and Capacity Utilisation rates 1/12/08
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EM INDUSTRY SURVEY: CAPACITY UTILISATION - EMU 11/12/13 SADJ(
EA GDP CONA
HIGH 84.80 15/5/07,LOW 79.50 14/2/97,LAST 81.60 14/11/08
HIGH 4.62 15/5/00,LOW 0.47 15/5/03,LAST 0.63 15/8/08 Source: Thomson Datastream
USA in recession
Unemployment soaring towards 7% - 8%...
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US Unemployment and Consumption Expenditures (inv erted) 1/12/08
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Europe in recession
Germany
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Eurozone and Germany GDP Growth rates (qoq% ) 1/12/08
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
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1 quarter percentage change - BD GDP (PAN BD FROM 1991) CURAHIGH 1.18 15/2/00,LOW -0.20 15/8/08,LAST -0.20 15/8/08
HIGH 1.76 15/2/08,LOW -0.41 14/2/03,LAST -0.02 15/8/08
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Source: Thomson Datastream
Europe in recession
Spain
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SPAIN: HOUSING SECTOR AND GDP GROW TH 1/12/08
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Source: Thomson Datastream
Europe in recession
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EMU: GDP Growth and Capacity Utilisation rates 1/12/08
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EM INDUSTRY SURVEY: CAPACITY UTILISATION - EMU 11/12/13 SADJ(
EA GDP CONA
HIGH 84.80 15/5/07,LOW 79.50 14/2/97,LAST 81.60 14/11/08
HIGH 4.62 15/5/00,LOW 0.47 15/5/03,LAST 0.63 15/8/08 Source: Thomson Datastream
The build up to the crisis global background
Low real interest rates stimulated borrowing and financial innovation
Long rates were low because of high saving especially by Asianeconomies
Short rates were held low in the US
Buildup of debt and asset price boom
New features of the market were not stress tested for downturns New features of the market were not stress tested for downturns
New asset backed securities hid risk rather than shared orreduced it
Reliance on wholesale markets was unwise
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The build up to the US crisis
Structural background:
Rush to sub prime lending in US, encouraged by government and
compensation schemes for bankers
Accelerating shift to securitisation, credit assessment neglected
for CDOs and other ABS
Low levels of liquidity and aggressive liability management by
banks
Some ABS held in SIVs and conduits, ABCP financed (Basel 1)
Context of global liquidity glut and search for yield (sub-prime and
ABS)
Suspicion of disaster myopia
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Financial Innovation and the Decline in Traditional
Banking
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Rising Volumes, Diminishing Standards
Mortgage Origination Statistics
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Diminishing Underwriting Standards
Source: Wray, 2007, Lessons from the Subprime Meltdown
The scope of our course
Why Study Financial Markets?
Channel funds from savers to investors, thereby promoting economic efficiency
Affect personal wealth and behavior of business firms
Why Study Banking and Financial Institutions?
Financial Intermediation Financial Intermediation
Helps get funds from savers to investors
Banks and Money Supply
Crucial role in creation of money
Central Bank
Role of the Central Bank in providing financial stability
Why Study Money and Monetary Policy?
Influence on business cycles, inflation, and interest rates, fiscal policy
Important role in the Financial Cries
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The Structure of the Financial System
Indirect FinanceFinancial Intermediaries
Banks and other monetary institutionsInsurance companies and pension
fundsOther financial intermediaries
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1. Companies2. Government3. Households
Money spenders
Direct Finance
Money savers
1. Households2. Companies3. Government4. Central Bank
Financial MarketsMoney MarketsDebt Markets
Equities Markets
The lenders may supply funds either by Financial Markets or Financial Intermediaries.
The Structure of Financial Markets
Financial Markets are the institutions through which a person (or an
institution) who wants to save can directly supply funds to a person (or an
institution) who wants to borrow. There are several categorization of
financial markets:
(i) Debt and Equity Markets
(ii) Primary and Secondary Markets
(iii) Exchanges and Over-the-Counter Markets
(iv) Money and Capital Markets
(v) Foreign Exchange Markets
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Classifications of Financial Markets
1. Debt Markets
Short-term (maturity < 1 year) Money Market
Long-term (maturity > 1 year) Capital Market
2. Equity Markets
Common stocks
3. Primary Market3. Primary Market
New security issues sold to initial buyers
4. Secondary Market
Securities previously issued are bought and sold
5. Exchanges
Trades conducted in central locations (e.g., Toronto Stock Exchange and New
York Stock Exchange)
6. Over-the-Counter Markets
Dealers at different locations buy and sell
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Characteristics of Debt Markets Instruments
Debt instruments:
- Buyers of debt instruments are suppliers (of capital) to the firm, not
owners of the firm
- Debt instruments have a finite life or maturity date- Debt instruments have a finite life or maturity date
- Advantage is that the debt instrument is a contractual promise to pay
with legal rights to enforce repayment
- Disadvantage is that return/profit is fixed or limited
- An interest rate is the cost of borrowing or the price paid for the rental of
funds
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The Bond Market and Interest Rates
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Debt Instruments - Money Market Instruments
Treasury bills
Certificates of deposit
Commercial Paper
Bankers Acceptances Bankers Acceptances
Eurodollars
Repurchase Agreements (RPs) and Reverse RPs
Federal Funds
LIBOR
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Principal Money Market Instruments
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Valuation of debt instruments Yield to Maturity
The interest rate that equates the present value of cash flow
payments received from a debt instrument with
its value today
YIELD TO MATURITY IS THE MOST ACCURATE MEASURE OF
INTEREST RATES
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Bond Page of the Newspaper
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Coupon Bond
Using the same strategy used for the fixed-payment loan:P = price of coupon bond
C = yearly coupon payment
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F = face value of the bond = years to maturity date
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Yields to Maturity on a 10%-Coupon-Rate Bond Maturing in
Ten Years (Face Value = $1,000)
When the coupon bond is priced at its face value, the yield tomaturity equals the coupon rate
The price of a coupon bond and the yield to maturity are negativelyrelated
The yield to maturity is greater than the coupon rate when the bondprice is below its face value
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Consol or Perpetuity
A bond with no maturity date that does not repay principal butpays fixed coupon payments forever
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Discount Bond
For any one year discount bond
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F = Face value of the discount bond
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P = current price of the discount bondThe yield to maturity equals the increase
in price over the year divided by the initial price.As with a coupon bond, the yield to maturity is
negatively related to the current bond price.
Rate of Return
The payments to the owner plus the change in valueexpressed as a fraction of the purchase price
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RET = return from holding the bond from time t to time t + 1P
t = price of bond at time t
Pt +1 = price of the bond at time t + 1
C = coupon payment
CP
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Rate of Return and Interest Rates
The return equals the yield to maturity only if the holding
period equals the time to maturity
A rise in interest rates is associated with a fall in bond prices,
resulting in a capital loss if time to maturity is longer than the
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resulting in a capital loss if time to maturity is longer than the
holding period
The more distant a bonds maturity, the greater the size of the
percentage price change associated with an interest-rate
change
Rate of Return and Interest Rates (contd)
The more distant a bonds maturity, the lower the rate of
return that occurs as a result of an increase in the interest rate
Even if a bond has a substantial initial interest rate, its return
can be negative if interest rates rise
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can be negative if interest rates rise
Rate of Return and Interest Rates (contd)
At first it frequently puzzles students that a rise in interest rates
can mean that a bond has been a poor investment.
The trick to understand it is to recognize that a rise in the interest
rates means that the price of a bond has fallen.rates means that the price of a bond has fallen.
A rise in interest rates therefore means that a capital loss has
occurred, and if this loss is large enough, the bond can be a poor
investment indeed.
Lets look..
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One-Year Returns on Different-Maturity 10%-Coupon-Rate
Bonds When Interest Rates Rise from 10% to 20%
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Interest-Rate Risk
Prices and returns for long-term bonds are more volatile than
those for shorter-term bonds
There is no interest-rate risk for any bond whose time to
maturity matches the holding period
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maturity matches the holding period
Example
Which $1,000 bond has the higher yield to maturity, a 20-year
bond selling for $800 with a current yield of 15% or a one
year bond selling for $800 with a current yield of 5%?year bond selling for $800 with a current yield of 5%?
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Characteristics of Equity Markets Instruments
Equity instruments (common stock is most prevalent equity
instrument):
- Buyers of common stock are owners of the firm
- Common stock has no finite life or maturity date- Common stock has no finite life or maturity date
- Advantage of common stock is potential high income since
return is not fixed or limited
- Disadvantage is that debt payments must be made before
equity payments can be made
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The Stock Market
Common stock represents a share of ownership in a
corporation
A share of stock is a claim on the earnings and assets of
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A share of stock is a claim on the earnings and assets of
the corporation
Capital Market - Equity
Common stock
- Residual claim
- Limited liability
Preferred stock Preferred stock
- Fixed dividends - limited
- Priority over common
- Tax treatment
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One-Period Valuation Model
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Generalized Dividend - Valuation Model
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The value of stock today is the present value of all future cash flows
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Lehman losses on the 13th September, 2008
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Gordon Growth Model
P0 =D0 (1+ g)(k
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D0 = the most recent dividend paid
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D0 = the most recent dividend paidg = the expected constant growth rate in dividendsk
e = the required return on an investment in equity
Dividends are assumed to continue growing at a constant rate foreverThe growth rate is assumed to be less than the required return on equity
Rate of Return
The payments to the owner plus the change in valueexpressed as a fraction of the purchase price
RET = CP
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t
RET = return from holding the bond from time t to time t + 1
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Pt = price of bond at time t
Pt +1 = price of the bond at time t + 1
C = coupon payment
CP
t
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Pt
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Principal Capital Market Instruments
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Primary and Secondary Market
Primary Markets: the new issues of stocks, bonds or other seucrities
typically marketed to the public by investment bankers
IPOs and seasoned new issues
in the case of bonds, a public offering and a private in the case of bonds, a public offering and a private
placement refers to the issue that usually is sold to one or
a few institutional investors and is generally held to
maturity
Secondary Market: trading of already-issued securities among
investors. Trading in the secondary markets does not affect the
outstanding amount of securities; the ownership is usually transferred
from one investor to another.
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IPOs a tombstone advertisement
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The Foreign Exchange Market
The foreign exchange market is where funds are converted
from one currency into another
The foreign exchange rate is the price of one currency in terms
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The foreign exchange rate is the price of one currency in terms
of another currency
The foreign exchange market determines the foreign exchange
rate
Over-the counter market
Dealers at different locations who have an inventory of securities standready to buy and sell securities over the counter to anyone whocomes to them and is willing to accept their prices
Because over-the-counter dealers are in computer contact and know
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Because over-the-counter dealers are in computer contact and knowthe prices set by one another the OTC market is very competitive andnot very different from a market with an organized exchange
Many common stocks are traded OTC but a majority of the largestcorporations have their shares traded at organized stock exchangessuch as New York Stock Exchange
Internationalization of Financial Markets (Glossary)
Foreign Bonds: sold in a foreign country and denominated in that
countrys currency
Eurobond: bond denominated in a currency other than that of the
country in which it is sold
Eurocurrencies: foreign currencies deposited in banks outside the
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Eurocurrencies: foreign currencies deposited in banks outside the
home country
Eurodollars: U.S. dollars deposited in foreign banks outside the
U.S. or in foreign branches of U.S. banks
World Stock Markets
Help finance federal government also (role of Japan)
The Structure of the Financial System
Indirect Finance
Financial IntermediariesBanks and other monetary institutions
Insurance companies and pension funds
Other financial intermediaries
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1. Companies2. Government3. Households
Money spenders
Direct Finance
Money savers
1. Households2. Companies3. Government4. Central Bank
Financial MarketsMoney MarketsDebt Markets
Equities Markets
The lenders may supply funds either by Financial Markets or Financial Intermediaries.
Financial Intermediaries
Financial intermediaries are financial institutions through which savers candirectly provide funds to the borrowers. The word intermediary reflects the role ofthese institutions in standing between savers and borrowers.
Generally one distinguishes two types of financial intermediaries: banks andnon-bank financial intermediaries. The latter can be divided into formal andinformal.
The non-financial intermediaries include: The non-financial intermediaries include:
Insurance companies
Pension funds
Mutual Funds
NGOs
Money Transfer Agencies
Over the past several decades, the non-bank financial institutions have become important players in financing business.
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Principal Financial Intermediaries and Value of Their Assets
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Why do we need financial intermediaries?
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Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard: Assymetric
information
Adverse Selection:
Before transaction occurs
Potential borrowers most likely to produce adverse outcomes are ones most likely
to seek loans and be selected
Example:Example:
Moral Hazard:
After transaction occurs
Hazard that borrower has incentives to engage in undesirable (immoral) activities
making it more likely that wont pay loan back
Example:
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Example Assymetric Information
A risk neutral enterpreneuer considers founding a private limited company (limited liability in GB). The newcompany can undertake one of the following projects (or pursue one of the following strategies), which arecharacterised by uncertain pay-offs in the two (equally likely) states of the world after one year.
States 1 2 Total value
Probabilities 0,5 0,5
Investment 1 80,000 180,000 130,000
Investment 2 200,000 40,000 120,000
Both projects require an investment of 90,000 EUR in t=0. To keep things simple, assume that all people are riskBoth projects require an investment of 90,000 EUR in t=0. To keep things simple, assume that all people are riskneutral and the risk-free interest rate is 0. The problem here is that of assymetrical information and incentives tohurt the other party. Potential providers of capital cannot observe and therefore not enforce by legal meanswhich project the enterprenuer finally implements. But they are clevel enough to understand that they areexposed to the danger of moral hazard.
a) Which project should/would the enterprenuer undertake if he were to provide all of the require funding byherself or if she could effectively commit herself to invest in the project which she promises to others.
b) Now assume that the entreprenuer looks for a loan to fully finance her preferred investment project. Theenterprenuer does not have any money. Which repayment would a bank request to receive (and thus at thesame time: what would bet he agreed nominal interest rate on a loan of 90,000 EUR) provided that:
i) the enterprenuer/borrower can make a credible and binding commitment concerning herinvestment choice
ii) the enteprenuer/borrower cannot make a credible and binding commtiment which project she selects. Please explain why commitment is important in this specific case. What might motivate the borrower not to select the seeminlgy efficient alternative?
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Reducing the Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard
Problems
Solving Asymmetric Information Problems
1. Screening
2. Monitoring and Enforcement of Restrictive Covenants
3. Specialize in Lending
4. Establish Long-Term Customer Relationships4. Establish Long-Term Customer Relationships
5. Loan Commitment Arrangements
6. Collateral and Compensating Balances
7. Credit Rationing
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Transaction Costs and Financial Structure
Transaction costs hinder flow of funds to people with productiveinvestment opportunities
Example:
Say you have 5,000 you would like to invest, and you think about investing in the stockSay you have 5,000 you would like to invest, and you think about investing in the stockmarket. Because you have only 5,000 you can buy only a small number of shares. Thestockbroker tells you that your purchase is so small that the brokerage commission forbuying the stock you picked will be large percentage of the purchase price of shares. Ifinstead you decide to buy a bond, the problem is even worse. Indeed, the broker maynot be interested in your business at all, because the small size of your account doesnot make spending time on it worthwhile. You are disappointed and realize that youwill not be able to use financial markets to earn a return on your hard-earned savings.You can take some consolation, however, in fact you are not alone in being stymied byhigh transaction costs. This is a fact of life of many of us: only around on-half ofAmerican households own any securities.
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Transaction Costs and Financial Structure
Transaction costs hinder flow of funds to people with productive investment
opportunities
Financial intermediaries make profits by reducing the transaction costs:
1. Take advantage of economies of scale
Example: Mutual Funds
2. Develop expertise to lower transaction costs
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What is the role of Financial Intermediaries in a
Financial System?
Mobilization of funds and converting the unproductive and illiquid savings into the
productive investments thanks to information unavailable to private and public markets
Delegated monitoring thanks to monitoring of financing firm, the financial
intermediaries are able to ensure that the distributed funds are allocated with the aim of
its destination
Corporate control through the ability of monitoring borrowers, the financial Corporate control through the ability of monitoring borrowers, the financial
intermediaries allow the economy to overcome moral hazard problems and reduce the
agency costs
Risk-sharing banks, mutual funds and other financial intermediaries all provide useful
vehicle for pooling, trading and risk-diversifying leading to the shift of investors portfolios
towards more uncertain but higher return
Intertemporal risk-smoothing as long-lived institutions, they may facilitate
intergenerational risk arising from investing in the long-run projects offering relatively low
returns in the boom times and high in the slack times.
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Adverse Selection and Financial Structure
Lemons Problem in the Securities Markets
If cant distinguish between good and bad securities, willing to pay only
average of good and bad securities values.
Result: Good securities undervalued and firms wont issue them; bad Result: Good securities undervalued and firms wont issue them; bad
securities overvalued, so too many issued.
Investors wont want to buy bad securities, so market wont function well.
Less asymmetric information for well known firms, so smaller lemons
problem
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Puzzle in the Financial Structure
Sources of Foreign External Finance
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Tools to Help Solve Adverse Selection (Lemons)
Problem
Private Production and Sale of Information
Free-rider problem interferes with this solution
Government Regulation to Increase Information
Financial Intermediation
A. Analogy to solution to lemons problem provided by used-cardealers
B. Avoid free-rider problem by making private loans
Collateral and Net Worth
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Moral Hazard: Debt versus Equity
Moral Hazard in Equity: Principal-Agent Problem
1. Result of separation of ownership by stockholders (principals) from control
by managers (agents)
2. Managers act in own rather than stockholders interest2. Managers act in own rather than stockholders interest
Tools to Help Solve the Principal-Agent Problem
1. Monitoring: production of information
2. Government regulation to increase information
3. Financial intermediation
4. Debt contracts
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Moral Hazard and Debt Markets
Moral hazard: borrower wants to take on too much risk
Tools to Help Solve Moral Hazard
1. Net worth
2. Monitoring and enforcement of restrictive covenants
3. Financial intermediation - Banks and other intermediaries have special advantages in monitoring
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Summary: Asymmetric Information Problems and Tools
to Solve Them
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Importance of the Financial Systems
Imagine yourself taking a business-school exam in international financial
management. The test is a case study. It concerns Opacia, an emerging
economy which is in a bit of a mess. Corporate financial statements mean
little as firms routinely lend to each other off balance sheet. You have no
idea how big the countrys foreing liabilities are, though you know that itsidea how big the countrys foreing liabilities are, though you know that its
banks and companies like to borrow dollars short-term, usually finance
long-term local investment projects. There is no effective bankruptcy law,
and corruption is rife.
Is it a safe place to invest money?
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What do you need in order to sleep well after having invested your
money in Opania?
Would you invest there at all?
1. legal system
2. accounting standards
3. government credit (directs)3. government credit (directs)
4. financial institutions (not nationalized)
5. adequate government regulation
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Financial Sector and Financial
System System
the difference?
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The Structure of the Financial System
Indirect Finance
Financial IntermediariesBanks and other monetary institutions
Insurance companies and pension funds
Other financial intermediaries
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1. Companies2. Government3. Households
Money spenders
Direct Finance
Money savers
1. Households2. Companies3. Government4. Central Bank
Financial MarketsMoney MarketsDebt Markets
Equities Markets
The lenders may supply funds either by Financial Markets or Financial Intermediaries.
and to meaningful definitions and distinctions
The Financial Sector
Encompasses the totality of institutions which specialize in providing financialservices to the non-financial sector units in the economy - i.e. banks, NBFIs,organised markets; and the relevant regulating and supervising bodies - and theirrules, structure and behaviour.
The Financial System The Financial System
Encompasses the demand for, and the supply of, financial services, and thus, ofcourse also the "professional providers", i.e. the financial sector, and the interplaybetween demand and supply.
Thus the Financial System is more than the Financial Sector
In addition to the financial sector and to the demand for its services, it also includesthe extent to which the financial sector does not meet the demand of the non-financial sector units and forces them to self-finance, self-invest and self-insure.
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Sources of Foreign External Finance
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There are considerable and persistent
differences between national financial systems
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Source: Allen, F., F.Chui and A.Maddaloni, Financial Systems in Europe, the USA and Asia,Oxford Review of Economic Policy,Vol.20(4), 2004
Portfolio allocation of non-bank intermediaries structure
varies across countries and regions
Portfolio Allocationaverage 1995-2002
(a) Monetary Financial Institutions (b) Insurance Companies and Pension Funds
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There are considerable and persistent
differences between national financial systems
Households Non-financial corporationsaverage 1995-2002
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Source: Allen, F., F.Chui and A.Maddaloni, Financial Systems in Europe, the USA and Asia,Oxford Review of Economic Policy,Vol.20(4), 2004
Financial systems are commonly classified
as being bank- based or capital market- based
Capital-based financial system
Capital markets are main sources of financing for firms and serve households
Bank leding is restricted in terms of volume and maturities
Bank-client relationships is rather at
Bank-based financial system
Banks play the dominant role
Banks are the main providers of financing for firms
Banks are the most important deposit takers
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Bank-client relationships is rather at arms length
Banks are often specialized either by law or by tradition
Non-financial intermediaries play important role
Investor information and investor protec-tion is very important
Control of management through market forces -market for corporate control
Corporate governance is shareholder oriented
takers
Bank-client relationships with firms are close; most firms have their house - banks
Banks play an important role in the governance of non-financial firms
Banks are organised as true universal banks and they dominate the entirefinancial sector
Corporate governance regime isstakeholder-orientated
Stock markets unimportant
It is a challenge for empirical research to determine
whether the growth impact of a financial system
depends on its quality
Open Ends
Bank-based
Financial SystemsCapital-based
Financial Systems
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Banks and stocks markets have independent effects on growth as they provide different financial services (Levine and Zervos, 1998) There may be a positive relationship between different measures of financial sector size, but the type of the
system does not seem to matter (Levine, 1999) It would be important to better measure financial sector quality. Looking at its internal consistency might
provide an answer to this question
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The possible convergence of financial systems either
towards a middle groundor to the Anglo-Saxon
model is a highly controversial topic
Germany U.S.
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Bank-based
Financial Systems
Japan
France
U.K.
Capital-based
Financial Systems
Financial System and Economic Growth
Recent research has found than an important reason why many
developing countries or ex-communist countries like Russia,
(which are referred to as transition countries) experience very
low rates of growth is that their financial systems are
underdeveloped (a situation referred to as financial repression).underdeveloped (a situation referred to as financial repression).
The economic analysis of financial structure helps to explain how
an underdeveloped financial system leads to a low state of
economic development and economic growth.
(World Bank, Finance for Growth: Policy Choices in a Volatile
World)
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Financial System and Economic Growth
Central Questions
Do countries with better developed banks and financial markets
enjoy substantially greater economic success?
Does this translate in higher capital accumulation or productivity Does this translate in higher capital accumulation or productivity
growth?
Why do not all countries take advantage of this?
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Alternative Views
Economists hold startlingly different views about the impact of finance on
long-run economic growth?
Finance promotes growth (Hamilton-Schmupeter):
banks are the happiest engines that ever were invented for creating
economic growth
Finance hurts growth (Adams): Finance hurts growth (Adams):
banks have done more harm to the mortality, tranquility, and even
wealth of this nation than they have done or ever will do good
Finance follows growth (Robinson)
Finance doesnt matter (Solow growth accounting):
growth is mainly due to technological progress, leaving little role for
finance
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Financial Sector: Resource Allocator
Potential Investors
Fund Providers Investment Proposals
Resource Deprivation
Financial sector and resource allocation
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Production
LandLaborEquipment
Investment FailureBad loan
Resource Acquisition/Allocation
Inefficient Allocation
Efficient Allocation
Case approved
Deprivation
Finance promotes growth - Theory
Financial Functions- pooling resources, subdividing shares- transferring resources across time and space- managing risk- generating and providing information- resolving competing claims on wealth generated
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- resolving competing claims on wealth generated
Channels to Growth- capital accumulation, physical and human- technological innovation
GROWTH
Finance promotes growth - Theory
That
is to say that countries whose financial systems
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is to say that countries whose financial systems
perform their functions better, grow faster.
The "quality" - or the state of development of the financial
system/sector matters for the growth and development of a country
Starting with Bagehot, it has always been clear to economists that finance is important
But this knowledge has been discarded by the neo-classical theory of economic growth
Empirical debate
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Positive real interest rateModerately negative real interest rates (0 to 5%)Strongly negative real interest rates (less than 5%)
Positive real interest rateModerately negative real interest rates (0 to 5%)Strongly negative real interest rates (less than 5%)
theory of economic growth It only came back with the
theory of endogenous growth (Romer, Lucas)
A start of empirical work was made in the WDR of 1989
In 1993, King and Levine empirically confirmed Schumpeters view that: finance matters
The legal system a country relies upon has a significant
influence on economic growth
The protection of shareholders and creditors by the legal system helps explain the
patterns of corporate finance in different countries:
breadth and depth of capital markets
pace of new security issues
corporate ownership structure
dividend policy dividend policy
efficiency of investment allocation
Investor protection is crucial:
expropriation of minority shareholders and creditors in many countries is
extensive
outside investors face a risk that the returns on their investments will never
materialize because the managers or controlling shareholders may expropriate
them (insiders)
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There are at least three reasons why the financial struture is important:
Efficiency in terms of our previous figure, the issue is how effectively funds flow from borrowers tolenders so that everbodys wealth is maximized.
(a) how financial system allows risk to be shared and who bears that risk
(b) incentives to produce and use information; in particular,where the resources canbe most profitably invested.
(c) how effective is corporate governance implemented?(c) how effective is corporate governance implemented?
(d) how financial sytstem evolves over time and the role of law and politics indetermining it.
Financial Stability what is the relationship between the struture of the financial system and thebanking crises, currency crises, asset-price bubbles and crashes, contagion and financial fragility.
Monetary Policy Transmission Channels two views:
(a) money view- interest rates affect consumption and investment as predicted byneoclassical theories based on perfect capital markets. Institutions do not matter!
(b) credit view with the imperfect capital markets, the effects of monetary policytransmission depends on access to finance. How finance is obtained by firms,houeseholds, and governments depends on the financial structure.
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