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The literature is unanimous in highlighting that banking crises have a negative impact on GDP, usually more pronounced in developing economies. The magnitude of the losses is more controversial: the quantitative results of studies on the repercussions of banking crises on economic activity, in...
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The paper provides a qualitative assessment of the role mainstream economic theory had in orienting Italy's banking legislation from its political unification (1861) to the introduction of the 1936 Banking Act. Five regulatory regimes are considered. Whilst market discipline and self-regulation...
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bank liquidity, seek help within their own group and dispose of assets. As the shock spreads, borrowers who lack liquid … capital and liquidity risks amplify the crisis. When authorities intervene, unconventional monetary policies smooth the …
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We document the development of the major international banks since the late 1990s, analysing balance-sheet data for 27 large and complex financial institutions. We argue that balance-sheet expansion and business line diversification paved the way for the rise of the universal banking model. This...
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Theory suggests that uninsurable income risk induces individuals to accumulate assets as a precautionary reserve of value. Most assets, however, bear rate of return risk, that can be diversified only if every asset is traded by a large number of individuals and arbitrage is frictionless. Using...
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This paper tests the role of different banks� liquidity funding structures in explaining the bank failures that … recognizes that the new liquidity framework proposed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision appears to have the features … needed to strengthen banks� liquidity conditions and improve financial stability. Its correct implementation, together with …
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In this paper we estimate the demand for liquidity by US non financial firms using data from COMPUSTAT database. In …
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After the crisis, bank regulators are considering mitigating liquidity risk by introducing quantity limits on liquidity … and maturity mismatch. We argue that aggregate liquidity risk can be reduced with little deadweight loss by encouraging … readily observable variable correlated with systemic liquidity risk (e.g. the LIBOR-OIS spread) is above a trigger threshold …
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This paper tests the hypothesis of liquidity hoarding in the Italian banking system during the 2007-2011 global …¿½ interventions are ineffective because banks hoard the liquidity injected rather than channelling it on to other banks and the real … the crisis, and, contrary to widespread conjecture, the liquidity injected by the Eurosystem was intermediated among banks …
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