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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 analyzes the investment choices of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) by country and industry in the last twenty years. Assets under management increased from $500 billion in 1995 to $4.7 trillion at end-2011. Based on a specially constructed data set, comprising 2,740 equity deals...
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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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