Simon H. Kwan

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

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San Francisco, CA 94105

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Bank Risk, Capitalization and Inefficiency

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Number of pages: 23 Posted: 01 Feb 1997
Simon H. Kwan and Robert Eisenbeis
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Independent
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Financial Contracting and the Choice between Private Placement and Publicly Offered Bonds

FRB of San Francisco Working Paper No. 2004-20
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 29 Dec 2004
Simon H. Kwan and Willard T. Carleton
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and University of Arizona
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Corporate bonds

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Market Evidence on the Opaqueness of Banking Firms' Assets

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 11 Jul 2000
Mark J. Flannery, Simon H. Kwan and Mahendrarajah Nimalendran
University of Florida - Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and University of Florida - Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate
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Risk and Return of Publicly Held Versus Privately Owned Banks

Economic Policy Review, Vol. 10, No. 2, September 2004
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 25 Aug 2005
Simon H. Kwan
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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ownership structure, bank risk-taking, market discipline, agency theory

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The X-Efficiency of Commercial Banks in Hong Kong

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The X-Efficiency of Commercial Banks in Hong Kong

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 03 May 2005
Simon H. Kwan
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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Financial Crisis and Bank Lending

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 17 Mar 2010
Simon H. Kwan
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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Financial Crisis, Bank Lending, Credit Tightening

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Data for Microprudential Supervision of U.S. Banks

Handbook of Financial Data and Risk Information, Volume I, M. Brose, M. Flood, D. Krishna and W. Nichols, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2014
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 13 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2016
Mark D. Flood, Simon H. Kwan and Irina Leonova
R. H. Smith School of Business, U. of Maryland, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - Financial Stability Board (FSB)
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Bank, bank holding company, supervision, regulation, microprudential, depository institution

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Safe and Sound Banking, 20 Years Later: What was Proposed and What has Been Adopted

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Working Paper No. 2006-27
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 05 Aug 2007
Frederick T. Furlong and Simon H. Kwan
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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bank supervision

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The Informativeness of Stochastic Frontier and Programming Frontier Efficiency Scores: Cost Efficiency and Other Measures of Bank Holding Company Performance

FRB Atlanta Working Paper Series No. 99-23
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 25 Jan 2015
Robert Eisenbeis, Gary D. Ferrier and Simon H. Kwan
Independent, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville - Sam M. Walton College of Business and Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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stochastic frontier, data envelope analysis, X-inefficiencies, banks and bank holding companies, informativeness principle

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Testing the Strong-Form of Market Discipline: The Effects of Public Market Signals on Bank Risk

FRB of San Francisco Working Paper No. 2004-19
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 15 Dec 2004
Simon H. Kwan
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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Market discipline, bank risk-taking

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Impact of Deposit Rate Deregulation in Hong Kong on the Market Value of Commercial Banks

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Impact of Deposit Rate Deregulation in Hong Kong on the Market Value of Commercial Banks

FRB of San Francisco Working Paper No. 2001-11
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 10 May 2005
Simon H. Kwan
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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Deposit rate deregulation, Interest rate rules, Hong Kong banks

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The Transmission of Negative Nominal Interest Rates in Finland

Bank of Finland Research Discussion Paper No. 6/2023
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 27 Apr 2023
Simon H. Kwan, Mauricio Ulate and Ville Voutilainen
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Bank of Finland
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Suomi, korot, negative nominal interest rates, interest rates, monetary policy, Finland, interest policy, mortgage, korko, rahapolitiikka

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Bank Risk, Capitalization, and Operating Efficiency

96-35
Posted: 28 Jan 1997
Simon H. Kwan and Robert Eisenbeis
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Independent

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