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We analyze optimal hedging contracts and show that although hedging aims at sharing risk, it can lead to more risk-taking. News implying that a hedge is likely to be loss-making undermines the risk-prevention incentives of the protection seller. This incentive problem limits the capacity to...
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decouple across secured and unsecured markets following an adverse shock to credit risk. The scarcity of underlying collateral …
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secured and unsecured markets following an adverse shock to credit risk. The scarcity of underlying collateral may amplify the …
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The paper studies the central bank collateral framework and its impact on banks’ liquidity under an adverse stress test … significantly after the initial shock. We find evidence of a threshold in the benefits of expanding the collateral framework and … institutions can rely on the collateral framework channel …
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the credit risk of their corporate loan portfolios when the latter are used as collateral in the Eurosystem’s monetary … actually used as Eurosystem collateral, particularly for large loans. The less conservative estimates of risk by IRBs relative … findings suggest the existence of a collateral-related channel through which the use of IRB ratings may influence the internal …
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This paper addresses the trade-off between additional loss-absorbing capacity and potentially higher bank risk-taking associated with the introduction of the Basel III Leverage Ratio. This is addressed in both a theoretical and empirical setting. Using a theoretical micro model, we show that a...
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In European countries recently hit by a sovereign debt crisis, the share of domestic sovereign debt held by the national banking system has sharply increased, raising issues in their economic and financial resilience, as well as in policy design. This paper examines these issues by analyzing the...
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on a simple asset pricing model and employing a dataset of hypothetical Eurosystem collateral positions, we simulate and … quantify the resulting change in collateral value pledged by counterparties to the Eurosystem, resulting from a transaction … cost shock. A 10 basis point increase in transaction costs entails a direct -0.30% decrease of collateral value and a -0 …
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We assess the quantitative implications of collateral re-use on leverage, volatility, and welfare within an infinite …-horizon asset-pricing model with heterogeneous agents. In our model, the ability of agents to reuse frees up collateral that can be …
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their regulatory ratio by altering their collateral pledging with the European Central Bank. We use the existence of … assets. Using security-level information on collateral pledged with the central bank, we find that banks without a preceding … national liquidity requirement pledge more and less liquid collateral than banks with a preceding national liquidity …
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