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The euro area is experiencing a severe and highly complex crisis. It comprises three problem areas, the difficulties of some highly indebted European sovereigns to ascertain funding at palatable cost, the disconcerting fragility of the European banking system and disappointing growth prospects...
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The extent to which business groups ever existed in the United States and, if they did exist, the reasons for their disappearance are poorly understood. In this paper we use hitherto unexplored historical sources to construct a comprehensive data set to address this issue. We find that (1)...
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particular, we show that the stock market applies far greater discounts to a bank’s real estate loans and mortgage … suggests that bank balance sheets overvalue real estate related assets during economic slowdowns. Estimated discounts are … impairment. We also find that bank share prices, especially for banks with large exposures to mortgage-backed securities, react …
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liability of banks and the presence of a negative externality of one bank’s failure on the health of other banks give rise to a … risk. Regulatory mechanisms such as bank closure policy and capital adequacy requirements that are commonly based only on a … bank’s own risk fail to mitigate aggregate risk-shifting incentives, and can, in fact, accentuate systemic risk. Prudential …
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This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank … guarantees in a monetary union. I assume that banks can use sovereign bonds for repurchase agreements with a common central bank … cheaply, effectively shifting the risk of some of the potential sovereign default losses on the common central bank. …
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Many of the world’s developed economies have introduced, or are planning to introduce, bank bail-in regimes. Both the … planned EU resolution regime and the European Stability Mechanism Treaty involve the participation of bank creditors in … bearing the costs of bank recapitalization via the bail-in process as one of the (main) mechanisms for restoring a failing …
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factors: cross-border externalities from bank failures and heterogeneity in bank failure costs. Based on a simple model we …
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A regulator resolving a bank faces two audiences: depositors, who may run if they believe the regulator will not …
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by interbank lending. This paper shows that common regulation is also a conduit for interbank contagion. One bank … behaviour can be privately to exhibit forbearance to a failing bank. We show that regulatory transparency improves confidence ex …
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This Paper presents a dynamic model of imperfect competition in banking where banks can invest in a prudent or a gambling asset. We show that if intermediation margins are small, the banks’ franchise values will be small, and in the absence of regulation only a gambling equilibrium will exist....
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