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We quantify the effect of refinancing risk on euro area money market spreads, a major factor driving spreads during the … borrow over a given horizon, thus increasing refinancing risk. We measure refinancing risk by quantifying the sensitivity of … frequency. Results suggest that refinancing risk affects the spread significantly across time, albeit in a largely varying …
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We examine the impact of banks' liquidity risk management on secondary loan sales. We track the dynamics of bank loan … importance of bank liquidity risk management as a motivation for loan sales, in addition to the credit risk transfer motive …
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We study the performance and behavior of Value at Risk (VaR) measures used by a number of large banks during and before …
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Using data on a broad set of European firms, we find a strong positive relationship between the use of external financing and future productivity (TFP) growth within firms. This relationship is robust to various measures of financing and productivity, and strengthens as financing costs increase....
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Whether bank failures have adverse effects on local economies is an important question for which there is conflicting and relatively scarce evidence. In this study, I use county-level data to examine the effect of bank failures and resolutions on local economies. Using quasi-experimental...
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The 2007-2009 recession is characterized by: a large drop in employment, an unprecedented decline in firm entry, and a slow recovery. Using confidential firm-level data, I show that financial constraints reduced employment growth in small relative to large firms by 4.8 to 10.5 percentage points....
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We examine the impact of banks' liquidity risk management on secondary loan sales. We track the dynamics of bank loan … importance of bank liquidity risk management as a motivation for loan sales, in addition to the credit risk transfer motive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273699
Do firms use credit line drawdowns to finance investment? Using a unique dataset of 467 COMPUSTAT firms with credit lines, we study the purpose of drawdowns during the 2007-2009 financial crisis. Our data show that credit line drawdowns had already increased in 2007, precisely when disruptions...
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analyze the consequences of the Federal Reserve Board's proposed pre-commitment approach (PCA) for setting market risk capital … requirements for bank trading portfolios. Under the PCA, a bank determines its own market risk capital requirement and is subject … to a known regulatory penalty should its trading activities generate subsequent losses that exceed its market risk …
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