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immediate, unprecedented widening of sovereign CDS spreads and narrowing of bank CDS spreads; however, post-bailouts there … emerged a significant co-movement between bank CDS and sovereign CDS, even after controlling for banks' equity performance …, the latter being consistent with an effect of the quality of sovereign guarantees on bank credit risk. …
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The GM and Ford downgrade to junk status during May 2005 caused a wide-spread sell-off in their corporate bonds. Using a novel dataset, we document that this sell-off appears to have generated significant liquidity risk for market-makers, as evidenced in the significant imbalance in their quotes...
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Recoveries that occur in the absence of credit growth are often dubbed miracles and named after mythical creatures. Yet these are not rare animals, and are not always miracles. About one out of five recoveries is "creditless," and average growth during these episodes is about a third lower than...
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Is there a link between loose monetary conditions, credit growth, house price booms, and financial instability? This paper analyzes the role of interest rates and credit in driving house price booms and busts with data spanning 140 years of modern economic history in the advanced economies. We...
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the proprietary bank-to-bank European interbank dataset extracted from Target2 and also exploit the Lehman and sovereign …
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This paper unveils a new resource for macroeconomic research: a long-run dataset covering disaggregated bank credit for …
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behavior. By paying out dividends, a bank transfers value to its shareholders away from creditors, among whom are other banks …. This way, one bank's dividend payout policy affects the equity value and risk of default of other banks. When such negative … externalities are strong and bank franchise values are not too low, the private equilibrium can feature excess dividends relative to …
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across banks. In particular, by paying out dividends, a bank transfers value to its shareholders away from its creditors, who … in turn are other banks. This way, one bank's dividend payout policy aects the equity value and risk of default of otther … banks. When such negative externalities are strong and bank franchise values are not too low, the private equilibrium can …
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Capital flight associated with the onset of a financial crisis in a country is often accompanied by an inflow of capital associated with foreign direct investment (FDI). Our paper provides a theoretical framework for this puzzle, and draws wider conclusions on the welfare effects of foreign...
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