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a new measure for systemic risk: the Financial Risk Meter (FRM). This measure is based on the penalization parameter (λ … the 100 largest US publicly traded financial institutions. We demonstrate the suitability of this AI based risk measure by … comparing the proposed FRM to other measures for systemic risk, such as VIX, SRISK and Google Trends. We find that mutual …
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arbitrage whereby banks funnel credit risk and low-quality collateral to the central bank. Weaker banks use lower quality … studying an extensive dataset of banks' liquidity uptake and pledged collateral in central bank repos. We document systemic … collateral to demand disproportionately larger amounts of central bank money (liquidity). This holds both before and after the …
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Although designed to support monetary policy, two crucial aspects of the central bank framework can disconnect the monetary policy transmission: banks' access to central bank deposits and Quantitative Easing (QE). We show how both hinder the monetary policy transmission through the main...
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We analyze securities trading by banks and the associated spillovers to the supply of credit.Empirical analysis has been elusive due to the lack of securities register for banks. We use a unique, proprietary dataset that has the investments of banks at the security level for 2005-2012 in...
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This paper examines how risk in trading activity can affect the volatility of asset prices. We look for this … swap spread tends to converge to a long-run level, although trading risk can sometimes cause the spread to diverge from … that level. -- convergence trading ; interest rate swaps ; swap spread ; repurchase contracts ; trading risk ; volatility …
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conduct an econometric analysis of the driving factors of banks’ asset encumbrance, highlighting the relevance of credit risk …, the availability of high quality collateral suitable for encumbrance, capital and sovereign funding conditions. Third, we …
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Financially constrained borrowers have the incentive to influence the appraisal process in order to increase borrowing or reduce the interest rate. We document that the average valuation bias for residential refinance transactions is above 5%. The bias is larger for highly leveraged...
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Financially constrained borrowers have the incentive to influence the appraisal process in order to increase borrowing or reduce the interest rate. We document that the average valuation bias for residential refinance transactions is above 5%. The bias is larger for highly leveraged...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071769