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Checking The Box: Does Compliance With Risk Management Regulation Increase Financial Stability?, Samuel W. Adams

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation examines how bank risk management impacts financial stability. In the first chapter, my coauthors and I study how bank risk management impacts systemic risk using a global sample of banks from 2002 to 2020. We find that bank risk management has improved since the global financial crisis, driven by the implementation of country-level reforms mandating Chief Risk Officers and board-level risk committees. We find that stronger risk management lowers banks’ contribution to systemic risk. Using the staggered enactment of bank risk management reforms as a quasi-natural experiment, we provide evidence that the relation is causal. Subsample analysis on …

Stability In Government, Emerging Technology, And Decentralized Economies: An Analysis Of Alternative Uses Of Cryptocurrencies, Mickayla Stogsdill

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.

The Consequences Of Disclosure Regulation: Evidence From Dodd Frank 1502b, Charles Whitley Emerson

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.

Securities Processing: The Effects Of A T+3 System On Security Prices, Victoria Lynn Messman

Doctoral Dissertations

This study investigates the settlement period, including payment delays and failed deliveries that occur during the processing of U.S. equity transactions, and its effects on observed stock prices. Payment and delivery occur three to six calendar days after the trade date in the standard three business day settlement cycle, referred to as T+3.

First, the buyer benefits from a payment delay, during which time he can earn interest on the cash needed to settle the trade. Since the seller has no analogous opportunity, I anticipated that the cost of the payment delay would be reflected in equity prices at a …