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We document that compared to all other investor groups investment funds exhibit a distinctly procyclical behavior when financial-market beliefs about the probability of a euro-related, institutional rare disaster spike. In response to such euro disaster risk shocks, investment funds shed...
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This paper aims at analysing the mortality patterns of hedge funds over the period January 1994 to May 2008. In particular, we investigate the extent to which a spillover of risk among hedge funds through redemptions and failures of other funds has affected the probability of fund failure. We...
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We show that international consumption risk sharing is significantly improved by capital flows, especially portfolio investment. Concomitantly, we show that poor institutions hamper risk sharing, but to an extent that decreases with openness. In particular, risk sharing is prevalent even among...
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We study both theoretically and empirically the inter- dependence of lending decisions in different country branches of … depositor run and a regulatory action if attained. A separate channel of shock propagation exists since lending decisions are … both countries to the parent bank home country disturbance. Second, we look for the presence of lending contagion by panel …
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technological diversification. Production makes use of different input varieties, which are subject to imperfectly correlated shocks …. In our model, the expansion in the number of varieties provides diversification benefits against variety-specific shocks …
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We study how financial market efficiency affects a measure of diversification of output across industrial sectors … and for various levels of disaggregation, we construct a benchmark measure of diversification as the set of allocations of … patterns disappear when we employ "naive" measures of diversification based on the equal spreading of output across sectors …
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diversification is less effective when jumps are frequent, unpredictable and strongly correlated. Public supervisors may also mind …
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consider transition risks in their lending. In contrast, banks less advanced in managing climate risk do not to the same extent …
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This paper provides a first empirical analysis of the impact of the European Central Bank's (ECB's) climate-risk-related supervisory efforts on (i) climate risk exposure and related risk management of banks; and (ii) on the induced shifts in banks' portfolio choices with regard to additional...
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We build a balance sheet-based model to capture run risk, i.e., a reduced potential to raise capital from liquidity buffers under stress, driven by depositor scrutiny and further fuelled by fire sales in response to withdrawals. The setup is inspired by the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) meltdown in...
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