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liquidity risk and characterizes them. Both a solvency (leverage) and a liquidity ratio are required to control the …
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This paper analyzes the effect of the removal of government guarantees on bank risk taking. We exploit the removal of …
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financial transactions tax is entirely neutral. Second, in a model with correlated investment risk and short-term financing of …
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This paper analyzes the effect of the removal of government guarantees on bank risk taking. We exploit the removal of …
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Most theoretical central bank models use short horizons and focus on a single tradeoff. However, in reality central banks play complex, long horizon games and face more than one tradeoff. We account for these issues in a simple infinite horizon game with a novel tradeoff: higher rates deter...
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We examine the impact of various dimensions of financial reform on the likelihood of systemic and non-systemic banking crises. Using new financial reform measures for a large sample of developing and developed countries for the period 1973 to 2002, our multivariate probit modeling results...
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, 2008), this paper analyses the adequate policy response to endogenous systemic liquidity risk. We analyse the feedback …
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The paper models the interaction between risk taking in the financial sector and central bank policy for the case of … pure illiquidity risk. It is shown that, when bad states are highly unlikely, public provision of liquidity may improve the … allocation, even though it encourages more risk taking (less liquid investment) by private banks. In general, however, there is …
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Interbank claims are a concern to regulators as they might facilitate the dissemination of defaults and generate spill-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...
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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...
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