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Lending relationships and credit rationing: the impact of securitization

Carbó Valverde, Santiago; Degryse, Hans; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Banks have been heavily involved in securitization. We study whether the involvedness of a firm’s main bank into … different types of securitization activity -- asset backed securities (ABS) and covered bonds -- influences credit supply before … and during the 2007-8 financial crisis. Both types of securitization allow the bank to generate liquidity. To the extent …

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Bad Bank(s) and Recapitalization of the Banking Sector

Schäfer, Dorothea; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

, the government would bear responsibility for the management and future resale of toxic assets at its own cost and …

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The Macroeconomics of Labour and Credit Market Imperfections

Wasmer, Etienne; Weil, Philippe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Labour market frictions are not the only possible source of high unemployment. Credit market imperfections, driven by microeconomic frictions and influenced by macroeconomic factors, could also be to blame. To develop this idea in a simple and tractable macroeconomic model, we treat credit and...

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Venture Capital Investment and Labor Market Performance: New Empirical Evidence for OECD Countries

Belke, Ansgar; Schaal, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role … models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial …

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The Macroeconomics of Labor and Credit Market Imperfections

Wasmer, Etienne; Weil, Philippe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

Labor market frictions are not the only possible factor responsible for high unemployment. Credit market imperfections, driven by microeconomic frictions and impacted upon by macroeconomic factors such as monetary policy, could also be to blame. This paper shows that labor and credit market...

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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature

Nathan, Max - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...

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Some Contagion, Some Interdependence: More Pitfalls in Tests of Financial Contagion

Corsetti, Giancarlo; Pericoli, Marcello; Sbracia, Massimo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper develops a test of contagion in financial markets based on bivariate correlation analysis, which generalizes existing tests, and applies it to the international effects of the Hong Kong stock market crisis of October 1997. Contagion is defined as a structural break in the...

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Are Retail Traders Compensated for Providing Liquidity?

Barrot, Jean-Noël; Kaniel, Ron; Sraer, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

uncertainty. Despite this high aggregate performance, individual investors do not reap the rewards from liquidity provision …

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Detecting Mortgage Delinquencies

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Economic hardship is strongly reflected by the housing market. It is the concern of much research, but its analysis is often obstructed by insufficient lagged data. This paper evaluates search intensity for "hardship letter" from Google Insights to detect ensuing mortgage delinquencies. Such...

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Are Banks Passive Liquidity Backstops? Deposit Rates and Flows during the 2007-2009 Crisis

Acharya, Viral V; Mora, Nada - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Can banks maintain their advantage as liquidity providers when they are heavily exposed to a financial crisis? The standard argument - that banks can - hinges on deposit inflows that are seeking a safe haven and provide banks with a natural hedge to fund drawn credit lines and other commitments....

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