How do institutional arrangements in banking affect the occurrence of crises?The first two chapters present an endeavor in using new modeling techniques toanswer this question. Even if the results are not widely accepted, the way inwhich the problem is tackled here is offered for consideration...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2011. Major: Economics. Advisor: V. V. Chari. 1 computer file (PDF); vii, 54 pages, appendices A-B.

In this dissertation, I study international financial crises. For this purpose, I build two models. In the first model, I focus on financial crises in developing, large open economies where foreign debt with various maturities and issue dates is available. The objective is to measure the...

My research focuses on the reasons for banking crises and the corresponding policy rulesthat could help prevent such crises. This abstract briefly reviews the two essays in mydissertation. The first essay focuses on the optimal mechanism design of the depositinsurance system while the second...

La literatura académica reciente muestra que los bancos están expuestos a pánicos sobre sus líneas de crédito. Durante estos pánicos, las empresas retiran fondos de sus líneas de crédito por miedo a restricciones crediticias futuras. En este trabajo usamos los resultados de las pruebas...

Summary of Banco de España Working Paper no. 2245

Evento: Jornada The RiskMinds Risk and Regulatory Reform, en la KBW European Financials Conference

Do bank bailouts work? Government aid initiatives implemented to stem the current crisis raise important questions about the role of monetary policy in preventing bank failures. The scale of this bailout program defies comparison with any other aid package implemented in the post-World War II...

Since the start of the financial crisis, various forms of securitization have been criticized for causing the problems experienced. The amount of Asset Backed Commercial Paper outstanding fell drastically in the middle of 2007 drawing our attention to this market. Our study focuses on the use of...

This study examines the timeliness of write-downs taken by U.S. financial institutions during the financial crisis of 2007-2008. The timeliness of write-downs is measured by benchmarking the quarterly accounting write-down schedule with the devaluation schedule implied by credit indices such as...