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This paper explores the implications of systemic risk in Credit Structured Finance (CSF). Risk measurement issues … the standard risk frameworks in CSF (Gaussian, Single Risk Factor Model; GSRFM), popular among market participants. If … implemented in a �static� fashion, GSRFM can substantially underprice risk at times of stress. I introduce a simple ï …
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and a sharp increase in credit risk. Taking advantage of the presence of multiple lending relationships to control for … credit demand and risk at the individual-firm level, we show that foreign lenders restricted credit supply (to the same firm …
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programmes on banks� risk and valuation, looking at the behaviour of CDS premia and stock prices. We then proceed to analyse …
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We find evidence of a bank lending channel for the euro area operating via bank risk. Financial innovation and the new … ways to transfer credit risk have tended to diminish the informational content of standard bank balance-sheet indicators …. We show that bank risk conditions, as perceived by financial market investors, need to be considered, together with the …
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We analyse a change in the degree of transparency of MTS, the electronic inter-dealer market for Italian Government bonds, namely the July 1997 move to the anonymity of quotes.
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Using a clustering procedure, we classify Italian funds ex-post on the basis of the composition of their portfolios and find that the optimal number of clusters is equal to 4. The four groups which result from the statistical classification closely match the 4-level aggregation of the 20 ex-ante...
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The paper presents a simple theory of intraday behavior in the interbank market.
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We examine the equity premium pizzle with the prespective of the theory of Rational Beliefs Equilibrium (RBE) and show that from the perspective of this theory there is no puzzle.
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The paper argues that the traditional difficulty encountered in finding evidence on the effects of credit availability on economic activity depends on the fact that these effects are powerful but rare and vary with the cycle. The global financial crisis offers an opportunity to test this...
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