B40.3312.30
Policymaking in Financial Institutions
Spring 2001

M 6:00-8:50 - Room 5-75



Brian Gendreau
Phone: 816-8743
Email: brian.c.gendreau@ssmb.com
Office hours available by request.

A. Sinan Cebenoyan
Office: K-MEC 9-191
Phone: 998-0426
Fax: 995-4233
Email: acebenoy@stern.nyu.edu
Office hours available by request.


Objective | Texts | Grading | Course Outline | Lecture Slides | Check here>>Announcements

Course Objective and Description:

This course will focus on the financial management and regulation of financial institutions, with a primary focus on commercial banks.
Texts:

Anthony Saunders, Financial Institutions Management: A Modern Perspective, 3rd edition, Irwin-McGraw Hill, 1999.

Additional articles will be handed out in class.
Grading:

Mid-term Exam (35%)
Final Exam (50%)
Problem Sets and Class Participation (15%)
Course Outline:

I. Financial Intermediation: An Overview

A. Structure and Regulation of the Financial Services Industry

Saunders, chapters 1-5. B. Are Financial Intermediaries Special? Saunders, chapter 6.

Mitchell Berlin "Bank Loans and Marketable Securities: How Do Financial contracts Control Borrowing Firms?" Business Review Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, July/August 1987.

Douglas W. Diamond, "Financial Intermediation as Delegated Monitoring: A Simple Example," Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Quarterly (Summer 1996).
 
 

C. Deposit Insurance and Moral Hazard Saunders, chapter 19.

George Hane, "The Banking Crises of the 1980s and Early 1990s: Summary and Implications," FDIC Banking Review, Vol. 11, No. 1 (1998)
George Benston and G. Kaufman, "FDICIA after Five Years: A Review and Evaluation" Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1997.

II. Credit Risk Management

A. Loans and Loan Commitments.

Saunders, chapters 11-12. B. Measuring Credit Risk J.P. Morgan CreditMetrics �Technical Document C. Securitization and Loan Sales Saunders, chapters 27-28. D. Sovereign Risk Saunders, chapter 16. III. Liability Management and Bank Capital

A. Liquidity and Liability Management.

Saunders, chapter 18. B. Capital Adequacy Saunders, chapter 20.

A. Sinan Cebenoyan, and Philip Strahan, "Risk Management, Capital Structure, and Capital Budgeting in Financial Institutions" working paper, NYU, 2001.
 
 

IV. Market Risk Management

A. Interest Rate Risk: Term Structure and Gap and Duration Models

Saunders, chapters 8-9. B. Foreign Exchange Risk Saunders, chapter 15. C. Interest Rate and Currency Swaps Saunders, chapter 26.

Katerina Simons, "Measuring Credit Risk in Interest Rate Swaps," New England Economic Review (November/December 1989).

D. Hedging with Futures and Options Saunders, chapters 24-25. E. Risk Management Saunders, chapter 10.

Richard Bookstaber "Global Risk management: Are We Missing the Point?" Journal of Portfolio Management, 1997.

Franklin Edwards "Hedge Funds and the Collapse of Long Term Capital Management" Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1999.

J.P. Morgan RiskMetrics�Technical Manual
 
 

V.  Case Study:  The Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-1998
 

A.  Moral hazard and/or financial panic?

     Morris Goldstein, �The Asian Financial Crisis,� International Economics Policy Briefs No. 98-1 (March 1998).

     Paul Krugman, �What Happened to Asia?� January 1998 (available on his web site:  web.mit.edu/krugman/www/).

     Paul Krugman, �Will Asia Bounce Back?´March 1998 (available on his web site: web.mit.edu/krugman/www/).

     Steven Radelet and Jeffrey Sachs, �What Have We Learned , So Far, From the Asian Financial Crisis?� January 1999  (available on  Nouriel  Roubini�s Asia Crisis Homepage, at www.stern.nyu.edu/~nroubini/asia/AsiaHomepage.html)
 

VI.  Technology, Competition, and Regulatory Change in Financial Services

A. Technology and Operating Costs

Saunders, chapter 14.

Berger, Allen N., R. Demsetz, and P. Strahan, " The Consolidation of the Financial Services Industry: Causes, Consequences, and Implications for the Future" Fed of NY, Staff Reports, Number 55, December 1998.

 B.  Internet Finance

     Richard J. Sullivan, "How Has the Adoption of Internet Banking Affected Performance and Risk in Banks?"          Financial Industry Perspectives, Kansas City Fed, December 2000.
 

C. Product and Geographic Expansion

Saunders, chapter 21-23.

Cebenoyan, A. Sinan, Elizabeth Cooperman, Charles Register, and Sylvia Hudgins �Cost Efficiency and Nontraditional Assets: Evidence from Stock Thrifts�, Real Estate Economics (formerly   AREUEA journal) v. 26, 1998, 4:695-718.

Cebenoyan, A. Sinan, E. Cooperman, C. Register, D. Bauer, " Interstate Savings and Loans in the 1990s: A Performance and Risk Appraisal", working paper.   Lecture Slides: Note: Slides are in Microsoft Powerpoint (Office 97) format.

Solutions to selected chapter problems (in Word format)

Announcements:
 
 

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