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The Credit Crunch and Fall in Employment During the Great Recession

Haltenhof, Samuel - 2014

We study how a bank credit crunch -- a dramatic worsening of firm and consumer access to bank credit, such as the one … credit. We find that, for employment, household access to bank loans matters more than firm access to bank loans. In addition …

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Banks' foreign homes

Schmidt, Kirsten; Tonzer, Lena - 2024

We study whether the low interest rate environment paired with booming housing markets affected banks' foreign activities in terms of commercial and residential real estate backed lending. Using a unique dataset covering systemically relevant banks in the euro area over the period 2015-2022, we...

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The housing market and the credit default swap premium in the UK banking sector : a VAR approach

Benbouzid, Nadia; Mallick, Sushanta Kumar; Pilbeam, Keith - In: Research in international business and finance 44 (2018), pp. 1-15

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The failure of Northern Rock : a multi-dimensional case study

Bruni, Franco (ed.); Congdon, Tim (contributor) - 2009

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The failure of Northern Rock : a multi-dimensional case study

Bruni, Franco (ed.); Llewellyn, David T. (ed.) - 2009

In August 2007 the United Kingdom experienced its first bank run in over 140 years. Although Northern Rock was not a … particularly large bank (it was at the time ranked 7th in terms of assets) it was nevertheless a significant retail bank and a … outside the bank as depositors rushed to withdraw their deposits. There was always a fear that this could spark a systemic run …

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The Banks that Said No : Banking Relationships, Credit Supply and Productivity in the United Kingdom

Franklin, Jeremy - 2015

This paper uses a large firm-level data set of UK companies and information on their pre-crisis lending relationships to identify the causal links from changes in credit supply to the real economy following the 2008 financial crisis. Controlling for demand in the product market, we find that the...

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Bankers’ Pay after the 2008 Crisis : Regulatory Reforms in the US and the EU

Ferrarini, Guido - 2013

We examine the political dynamics which led to the codification of the Principles and Standards for sound compensation practices at financial institutions at international (G 20) level and to their subsequent implementation on both sides of the Atlantic. We show that the regulation of bankers'...

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Did loan-loss provisioning by UK banks become less rimely after implementing of IAS 39?

O'Hanlon, John - In: Accounting and business research : a research quarterly … 43 (2013) 3, pp. 225-258

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Newton's Financial Misadventures in the South Sea Bubble

Odlyzko, Andrew - 2018

One of the most popular investment anecdotes relates how Isaac Newton, after cashing in some large early gains, staked his fortune on the success of the South Sea Company of 1720 and lost heavily in the ensuing crash. However, this tale is based on only a few scraps of hard evidence, some of...

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CEO Remuneration and Bank Default Risk : Evidence from the US and Europe

Vallascas, Francesco - 2015

bank CEOs. For a panel of US and European banks, we employ the Merton distance to default model to estimate how bonus … payments and option holdings impact the level of bank default risk targeted by CEOs. We find that CEO cash bonuses reduce …

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