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Securities lending and information acquisition
Greppmair, Stefan; Jank, Stephan; Saffi, Pedro A. C.; … - 2024
Using microdata on stock-level lending positions from German mutual funds, we show that active funds use the equity lending market to obtain information about short sale demand. Funds reduce long positions in response to these demand signals, which allows fund managers to front-run public...
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Multinational banks in regulated markets : is financial integration desirable?
Haufler, Andreas; Wooton, Ian - 2018
We set up a two-country, regional model of trade in financial services. Competitive firms in each country manufacture non-traded consumer goods in an uncertain productive environment, borrowing funds from a bank in either the home or the foreign market. Duopolistic banks can choose their levels...
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Financial repression in general equilibrium : the case of the United States, 1948-1974
Kliem, Martin; Kriwoluzky, Alexander; Müller, Gernot J.; … - 2024
Financial repression lowers the return on government debt and contributes, all else equal, towards its liquidation. However, its full effect on the debt-to-GDP ratio hinges on how repression impacts the economy at large because it alters investment and saving decisions. We develop and estimate a...
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Taming overconfident CEOs through stricter financial regulation
Kassner, Bernhard - 2023
paper shows that financial regulation can be effective at mitigating this type of risk. Exploiting regulatory changes … financial institutions subject to stricter regulation. Following the easing of these regulations, overconfidence-induced risk …-taking increases again. These findings confirm the effectiveness of financial regulation at correcting overconfident behavior, but also …
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CDS spreads and systemic risk : a spatial econometric approach
Keiler, Sebastian; Eder, Armin - 2013
; spatial econometrics ; CDS spreads ; government policy and regulation …
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Credit risk interconnectedness : what does the market really know?
Abbassi, Puriya; Brownlees, Christian; Hans, Christina; … - 2016
We analyze the relation between market-based credit risk interconnectedness among banks during the crisis and the associated balance sheet linkages via funding and securities holdings. For identification, we use a proprietary dataset that has the funding positions of banks at the bank-to-bank...
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Trustworthiness of firm valuations : bias and market perception in compliance with capital market regulations
El-Al, Eli; Galil, Koresh; Gavious, Ilanit - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486176
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Unleashing animal spirits : self-control and overpricing in experimental asset markets
Kocher, Martin; Lucks, Konstantin; Schindler, David - 2018
One explanation for overpricing on asset markets is a lack of traders' self-control. Self-control is the individual capacity to override or inhibit undesired impulses that may drive prices. We implement the first experiment to address the causal relationship between self-control abilities and...
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Freeze! : financial sanctions and bank responses
Efing, Matthias; Goldbach, Stefan; Nitsch, Volker - 2018
We study the effects of financial sanctions on cross-border credit supply. Using a differences-in-differences approach to analyze eleven sanctions episodes between 2002 and 2015, we find that banks located in Germany reduce their positions in countries with sanctioned entities by 38%. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011938062
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Freeze! : financial sanctions and bank responses
Efing, Matthias; Goldbach, Stefan; Nitsch, Volker - 2019
We study the effects of financial sanctions on cross-border credit supply. Using a differences-in-differences approach to analyze eleven sanctions episodes between 2002 and 2015, we find that banks located in Germany reduce their positions in countries with sanctioned entities by 38%. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230708