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The following paper describes the emergence of cooperative mortgage credit associations, called "Landschaften" in 18th century Prussia, and thereby tells the history of mortgage-covered bonds. Landschaften facilitated the refinancing of loans for Prussian estates by issuing covered bonds...
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This paper analyzes the determinants of spreads on syndicated bank lending to emerging markets, treating the loan … interpretation of bank finance as dominating that segment of international financial markets characterized by the most pronounced …
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Bank-created money, shadow-bank money, and Treasury bonds all satisfy investors' demand for a liquid transaction medium … extent to which they are substitutes, and the amount of liquidity per unit delivered by each asset. Treasury bonds and bank …. Our results on the imperfect substitutability of bank and shadow-bank money also inform analyses of the coexistence of the …
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We show that decentralized privately created money with unstable values can hinder the traded, more transaction-friction sensitive, sector of the economy. We do so in the context of the NationalBanking Act of 1864 in the United States that created a new federally-regulated, fully-backed currency...
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We study links between the labor market for loan officers and access to mortgage credit. Using novel data matching the (near) universe of mortgage applications to loan officers, we find that minorities are significantly underrepresented among loan officers. Minority borrowers are less likely to...
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. Using branch-level deposit rate data, we find little evidence for market discipline as rates are similar across bank … correlated with loan growth in other states in which their bank has some presence, suggesting internal capital markets help … reallocate the bank's funding …
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relationship between bank concentration and banking system fragility and (ii) the mechanisms …
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on solvent banks leading to bank panics. But financial crises of the last two decades have not fit the mold. A new …
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This paper documents the changing international exposures of U.S. bank balance sheets since the mid-1980s. U.S. banks … influence on U.S. bank cross-border and local claims. The cross-border claims of U.S. banks on European customers tend to be …
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