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This paper argues that counter-cyclical liquidity hoarding by financial intermediaries may strongly amplify business … funding liquidity risk in their inter- mediation activity. Importantly, the amount of liquidity reserves held in the financial … liquidity, which strongly amplifies the initial shock and induces credit crunch dynamics sharing key features with the Great …
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modelling framework could be used both as a crisis management tool to help inform decisions on capital/liquidity infusions in …
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We study the prices that individual banks pay for liquidity (captured by borrowing rates in repos with the central bank … depend in particular on the distribution of liquidity across banks, which is calculated over time using individual banklevel … data on reserve requirements and actual holdings. Banks pay more for liquidity when positions are more imbalanced across …
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shock. Our contagion mechanism operates through a dual channel of liquidity and solvency risk. The joint modelling of banks …
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Europe's financial structure has become strongly bank-based – far more so than in other economies. We document that an increase in the size of the banking system relative to equity and private bond markets is associated with more systemic risk and lower economic growth, particularly during...
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How do capital and liquidity buffers affect the evolution of bank loans in periods of financial and economic distress … capital and liquidity buffers show a more muted response in their lending to adverse real economy shocks. Capital and … liquidity buffers also affect bank responses to monetary policy shocks. High bank capitalisation reduces the degree to which …
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. Instead, our results are in line with the hypothesis that a lower trading volume reduces liquidity, and thereby market quality …
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cash buffers in comparison with their unaffiliated peers. Banks provide liquidity support to distressed affiliated funds by … complementarities in investors’ redemptions. Liquidity support and other benefits of bank affiliation are conditional on the financial …
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In this paper we analyse the role of the international trade network for the strength of the global recession across countries. The novelty of our paper is the use of value-added trade data to capture the importance of trade network structure. We estimate with BMA techniques how far network...
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Specialness - the premium of procuring a specific security in the repo market - increased in the second half of 2011 for Italian government bonds. We assess the impact on specialness of the outright purchase program of the Eurosystem during the same period. Bonds bought by the Eurosystem had...
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