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confined to project initiation, I find that: (1) when agents expect a liquidity dry-up on such markets, they optimally choose … to self-insure through the hoarding of non-productive but liquid assets; (2) such a response has negative externalities … as it reduces ex-post market participation, which worsens adverse selection and dries up market liquidity; (3) liquidity …
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collapse then triggers a fire-sale that renders traditional banks vulnerable to "liquidity runs". The prospect of liquidity …
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Shadow banking is a broad concept. A possible definition is that it comprises non-bank institutions which undertake bank-like activities. Another characteristic is that the sector is overall less regulated. Therefore there are still shortcomings in systematic collection of information of the sector.
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We develop a model of rational bubbles based on leverage and the assumption of an imprecisely known maximum market size. In a bubble, traders push the asset price above its fundamental value in a dynamic way, driven by rational expectations about future price developments. At a previously...
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We develop a model of rational bubbles based on leverage and the assumption of an imprecisely known maximum market size. In a bubble, traders push the asset price above its fundamental value in a dynamic way, driven by rational expectations about future price developments. At a previously...
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liquidity over incentives. Optimal interventions with commitment call for large, long-term subsidies in excess of what is … required to restore liquidity. …
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particular, we do not find that worse performing banks began hoarding liquidity and indiscriminately reducing their lending. …
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Financial losses can have persistent effects on the financial sy stem. This paper proposes an empirical measure for the duration of these effects, S pillover P ersistence. I d ocument that Spillover Persistence is strongly correlated with financial c onditions; d uring b anking crises, Spillover...
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This paper proposes a quantitative theory of the interaction between private and public debt in an open economy. Excessive private debt increases the frequency of financial crises. During such crises the government provides fiscal bailouts financed with risky public debt. This response may cause...
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Do financial crises radicalize voters? We study Germany's 1931 banking crisis, collecting new data on bank branches and firm-bank connections. Exploiting cross-sectional variation in precrisis exposure to the bank at the center of the crisis, we show that Nazi votes surged in locations more...
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