First, because most bank assets are illiquid and raising fresh equity is costly, banks should hold a buffer of liquid reserves to be able to cope with short-term losses. Second, equity capital should be significantly increased, so that if the value of the banks’ assets were to decline, ...
“At the end of each quarter, Bear would lower its leverage ratio by selling assets, only to buy them back at the beginning of the next quarter. Bear and other firms booked these transactions as sales—even though the assets didn’t stay off the balance ...
assessing heat transfer performance for different LOHCs, at least when the reaction order is similar (the reaction order for DBT has been shown to be very close to 2 [34]); preliminary results for other carriers hint at a possible correlation between the reaction order and the threshold value...