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Macroprudential stress tests have been employed by regulators in the United States and Europe to assess and address the solvency condition of financial firms in adverse macroeconomic scenarios. We provide a test of these stress tests by comparing their risk assessments and outcomes to those from...
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Macroprudential stress tests have been employed by regulators in the United States and Europe to assess and address the solvency condition of financial firms in adverse macroeconomic scenarios. We provide a test of these stress tests by comparing their risk assessments and outcomes to those from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083787
paper introduces a measure of the threat that a bank poses to the system. Such a measure, called threat index, may be … individual institutions to the risk in the system. Although the threat index and the default level of a bank both reflect some …
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investors to be less prone to run individual banks, but runs will be systemic. In addition, we show that bank runs are …
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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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, raising credit terms to their borrowers. The picture that emerges from these findings looks less like a traditional bank run …
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We study the functioning and possible breakdown of the interbank market in the presence of counterparty risk. We allow banks to have private information about the risk of their assets. We show how banks' asset risk affects funding liquidity in the interbank market. Several interbank market...
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hedge to fund drawn credit lines and other commitments. We shed new light on this issue by studying the behavior of bank …
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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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I propose a simple theory of intertwined business and financial cycles, where financial regulation both optimally responds to and influences the cycles. In this model, banks do not internalize the effect of their credit expansion on other banks’ expected bankruptcy costs, which leads to...
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