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banks to public accounts as a consequence of implicit or explicit bailout guarantees to distressed banking systems. This …This paper investigates the role of banks foreign asset holdings in transmitting credit risk internationally. Foreign … paper articulates this mechanism with a simple model where governments choose to fill banks' capital gaps to self …
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guidelines for banks, including a bank-paid resolution fund, fully operational in 2025. In the article we discuss how the current … design of the banking union falls short of the goal of breaking the link between governments and their banks. We explain how …
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On February 12, 2010, SUERF, the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and the Bankwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft continued their established tradition of jointly organised conferences. As evidenced also by the 115 conference participants, this year's subject of "Contagion and Spillovers – New...
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Financial institutions are increasingly linked internationally. As a result, financial crisis and government intervention have stronger effects beyond borders. We provide a model of international contagion allowing for bank bailouts. While a social planner trades off tax distortions, liquidation...
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spillovers. We define contagion as excess correlation, i.e. correlation between banks and sovereigns over and above what is …’s disclosure of sovereign exposures of banks. We find that banks with a weak capital and/or funding position are particularly …
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balance sheets of international banks and their customers. It outlines the basic building blocks of liquidity management for a … interest rate derivatives markets transformed banks' strategies in this area. It explains how the pervasive interconnectedness … between major banks and markets magnified contagion effects. Finally, the paper provides some recommendations for how …
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Using the announcement of the first Greek bailout on April 11, 2010, we quantify significant spillover effects from … average by 1.1 percent after the bailout. These effects are more pronounced in countries that belong to the Eurozone and that …
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The investigation of the sequencing of liberalization in the EU financial services industry is the primary object of this study. The relevance of the EU model for financial liberalization is threefold. First, the EU route towards liberalization in financial services could be regarded as a...
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This paper examines the spillover effects of sovereign rating news on European financial markets during the period 2007-2010. Our main finding is that sovereign rating downgrades have statistically and economically significant spillover effects both across countries and financial markets. The...
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cross-border bank lending, and obtained one finding that cross-border lending by international banks tend to pull out from … basis. This suggests that encouraging brick-and-mortar affiliates of international banks to "set up shop" in recipient … branches of international banks in terms of their ability to shield themselves from the financial difficulties of their global …
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