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A common view is that deposit rates are determined primarily by supply: depositors require higher deposit rates from risky banks, thereby creating market discipline. An alternative perspective is that market discipline is limited (e.g., due to deposit insurance and/or enhanced capital...
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We examine how financial crises redistribute risk, employing novel empirical methods and micro data from the largest financial crisis of the 20th century - the Great Depression. Using balance-sheet and systemic risk measures at the bank level, we build an econometric model with incidental...
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We analyze the costs and benefits of intermediaries for government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) mortgages using regulatory data. We find evidence of lenders pricing for observable and unobservable default risk independently from the GSEs. These findings are explained using a model of competitive...
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In competitive capital markets, risky debt claims that offer high yields in good times have high systematic risk exposure in bad times. We apply this idea to bank risk measurement. We find that banks with high accounting return on equity (ROE) prior to a crisis have higher systematic tail risk...
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Over the past two decades, banks have increasingly focused on offering contingent credit in the form of credit lines as a primary means of corporate borrowing. We review the existing body of research regarding the rationales for banks' provision of liquidity insurance in the form of credit...
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competing banking offices. The bank's presence caused smaller city property value contractions and stronger recoveries through …
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We study the spatial expansion of banks in response to banking deregulation in the 1980s and 90s. During this period …
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regional banking panics. We find that fundamentals explain most of the incidence of bank failure, and argue that contagion' or … of the importance of contagion or liquidity crises. At the national level, we find that the first two banking crises … changes in the importance of liquidity measures for forecasting bank failures. The third banking crisis they identify is a …
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We test three hypotheses regarding changes in supervisory toughness' and their effects on bank lending. The data provide modest support for all three hypotheses that there was an increase in toughness during the credit crunch period (1989-1992), that there was a decline in toughness during the...
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emerging market events in perspective. The LTCM crisis had no significant contagion effects in the banking sector either, but …
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