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After the Lehman-Brothers collapse, the stock index has exceeded its pre-Lehman-Brothers peak by 36% in real terms. Seemingly, markets have been demanding more stocks instead of bonds. Yet, instead of observing higher bond rates, paradoxically, bond rates have been persistently negative after...
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' sovereign exposures and their effects during and after the crisis. First, public, bailed out and poorly capitalized banks …
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We develop a dynamic recursive model where political and economic decisions interact, to study how excessive debt-GDP ratios affect political sustainability of prudent fiscal policies. Rent seeking groups make political decisions - to cooperate (or not) - on the allocation of fiscal budgets...
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We study the information flow from the ECB on policy dates since its inception, using tick data. We show that three factors capture about all of the variation in the yield curve but that these are different factors with different variance shares in the window that contains the policy decision...
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. Theoretically, regime-switching models are able to capture rational expectations of infrequently occurring discrete events …
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study of both non-crisis and crisis episodes, including trends and bursts in spillovers, and both turn out to be empirically …
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incidence of a currency crisis. In the Russian crisis, the common bank lender helps to predict the incidence of contagion but … may be more important in explaining contagion than similarities in macro-economic fundamentals and even than trade …This paper presents evidence that spillovers through shifts in bank lending can help explain the pattern of contagion …
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Crisis. It identifies the channel through which risks in the financial industry leaked into the public sector. It discusses … the role of the bank rescues in igniting the sovereign debt crisis and reviews approaches to detect early warning signals …
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factors. We account for interdependencies between sovereign and bank CDS spreads and we derive generalised impulse response … transmission from or to sovereigns and banks are aggregated as a Contagion index (CI). This index is disentangled into four …) vice-versa. We highlight the impact of policy-related events along the different components of the contagion index. The …
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We investigate the transmission of central bank liquidity to bank deposits and loan spreads in Europe over the January … liquidity does not translate into lower loan spreads for high-risk banks, even as it lowers deposit rates for both high-risk and …
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