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recent global liquidity crisis and, in particular, the quant event of 2007. …
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-financial firm and commercial bank before the crisis, but the picture was quite different for large commercial banks States and for … deleveraging during the crisis. These results show that excessive risk taking before the crisis was not easily detectable because …
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economic crisis. Evidence on the variety of discrimination implemented by governments, characteristics of the recent systemic … crisis, as well as on certain, often overlooked features of WTO obligations are used to support a conclusion that the WTO … rules altered at most the composition of crisis-era protectionism. As to the quantum of protectionism, it is unclear how WTO …
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Most stock exchange regulators around the world reacted to the 2007-2009 crisis by imposing bans or regulatory …
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Systemic risk is modeled as the endogenously chosen correlation of returns on assets held by banks. The limited liability of banks and the presence of a negative externality of one bank’s failure on the health of other banks give rise to a systemic risk-shifting incentive where all banks...
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We present a model in which issuers of asset backed securities choose to release coarse information to enhance the liquidity of their primary market, at the cost of reducing secondary market liquidity or even causing it to freeze. The degree of transparency is inefficiently low if the social...
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This paper presents evidence that public debts in the advanced economies have surged in recent years to levels not recorded since the end of World War II, surpassing the heights reached during the First World War and the Great Depression. At the same time, private debt levels, particularly those...
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We provide the first empirical tests for financial protectionism, defined as a nationalistic change in banks’ lending behaviour, as the result of public intervention, which leads domestic banks either to lend less or at higher interest rates to foreigners. We use a bank-level panel data set...
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dataset on Russia where GDP experienced an 8 percent drop in 2009. The effect of the crisis had been very uneven among Russian … the crisis. The variation in the industrial structure allows creating an instrument for the change in income. After … that the average level of trust in Russia is 25%, this magnitude is substantial. We also find that post-crisis economic …
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respective major crisis triggers (Lehman’s collapse in the US and the 2009 admission by Papandreou, that Greece’s deficit was … those widely observed crisis triggers is similar in the EA and in the US, the behavior of their reserves is quite different …
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