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Shop Around and You Pay More
Yan, Ji; Tian, Kun; Dixon, Huw D.; Heravi, Saeed; … - CESifo - 2014
We examine the relationship between the prices paid by households and their shopping patterns measured in terms of shopping frequency and the range of stores visited. We use the TNS data which allows us to control for household heterogeneity. The main contribution of the paper is that we find...
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Determinants of Cross-Border Bank Acquisitions in Transition Economies: A Latent Class Analysis
Poghosyan, Tigran; Haan, Jakob de - CESifo - 2008
We analyze the microeconomic determinants of cross-border bank acquisitions in 16 transition economies over the period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405973
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Securitization of Mortgage Debt, Asset Prices and International Risk Sharing
Hoffmann, Mathias; Nitschka, Thomas - CESifo - 2009
We explore the impact of mortgage securitization on the international diversification of macroeconomic risk. By making mortgage-related risks internationally tradeable, securitization contributes considerably to better international consumption risk sharing: we find that countries with the most...
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Drivers and Obstacles to Banking SMEs: The Role of Competition and the Institutional Framework
Torre, Augusto de la; Pería, María Soledad Martínez; … - CESifo - 2009
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are important for employment and economic activity; however, they are perceived to lack adequate financing, which hampers their growth. As a consequence, governments have implemented a number of programs to foster SME lending and attention has focused on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979421
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I Spy with my Little Eye... a Banking Crisis - Early Warnings and Incentive Schemes in Banks
Hakenes, Hendrik; Schlegel, Friederike - CESifo - 2014
incentives to implement such a trigger? We construct a theoretical model of a bank that is financed with debt and equity, and a … bank manager monitoring the bank’s loan portfolio. The manager must be incentivized to warn the board before a crisis …
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Bank Networks: Contagion, Systemic Risk and Prudential Policy
Aldasoro, Inaki; Gatti, Domenico Delli; Faia, Ester - CESifo - 2015
We present a network model of the interbank market in which optimizing risk averse banks lend to each other and invest in non-liquid assets. Market clearing takes place through a tâtonnement process which yields the equilibrium price, while traded quantities are determined by means of a...
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Boring Banks and Taxes
Aigner, Rafael; Bierbrauer, Felix - CESifo - 2015
How do taxes in the financial sector affect economic outcomes? We analyze a simple general equilibrium model with financial intermediation. We formalize a trade-off between tax policies that burden the owners of banks and tax policies that burden households. We also study the implications of the...
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Contagion in Financial Networks: A Threat Index
Demange, Gabrielle - CESifo - 2015
-over effects. Building on a simple model, this paper introduces a measure of the spill-over effects that a bank generates when it … defaults. The measure is based on an explicit criterion, the aggregate debt repayments, and is bank’s specific, affected by the … bank’s characteristics and links to other banks. Such measure can be useful to a regulator to determine in which banks cash …
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Loan Loss Provision: Some Empirical Evidence for Italian Banks
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Alessi, Matteo; Colli, Stefano Di - CESifo - 2015
This paper uses data from a panel of more than 400 Italian banks for the period 2001 – 2012 to examine the main determinants of loan loss provision (LLP), which are classified as either discretionary (income smoothing, capital management, signalling) or non-discretionary (related to the...
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Supply Restrictions, Subprime Lending and Regional US House Prices
Anundsen, André Kallåk; Heebøll, Christian - CESifo - 2015
With regard to the recent US house price cycle, we analyze how the interaction between housing supply restrictions, mortgage credit constraints and a price-to-price feedback loop affects house price volatility. Considering 247 Metropolitan Statistical Areas, we estimate a simultaneous boom-bust...
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