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This paper presents evidence of banks using accounting discretion to overstate the value of distressed assets. In particular, we show that the stock market applies far greater discounts to a bank’s real estate loans and mortgage-backed securities than are implicit in the book values of these...
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The creation of Europe’s ‘new’ stock markets represents a major experiment in market design with important implications for the ability to support innovative, fast-growing companies. We evaluate the success of these markets based on a large number of measures of firm performance and...
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We present new stylized facts on bank and firm leverage for 2000-2009 using extensive internationally comparable micro level data from several countries. The main result is that there was very little buildup in leverage for the average non-financial firm and commercial bank before the crisis,...
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equity markets; international imbalances and foreign reserve adequacy; macroeconomic policies; and institutional and …
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Multiple Cause (MIMIC) model. Our analysis is conducted on a cross-section of 85 countries; we focus on international linkages … are both national (such as equity market run-ups that preceded the crisis) and, critically, international financial and … number of possible causes in a flexible statistical framework, we are unable to find strong evidence that international …
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This Paper estimates the effect on international trade of multilateral trade agreements: the World Trade Organization …
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international trade are important in understanding how currency crises spread, above and beyond any macroeconomic phenomena. We … 1997) we show that currency crises affect clusters of countries tied together by international trade. By way of contrast …
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of a country's institutions, heterogeneity, and a number of different international indices and rankings. I have little … success; small countries are more open to international trade than large countries, but are not systematically different …
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Conventional wisdom holds that protectionism is counter-cyclic; tariffs, quotas and the like grow during recessions. While that may have been a valid description of the data before the Second World War, it is no longer accurate. In the post-war era, protectionism has not actually moved...
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The relative popularity of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) and fixed-rate mortgages (FRMs) varies considerably both across countries and over time. We ask how movements in current and expected future interest rates affect the share of ARMs in total mortgage issuance. Using a nine-country panel...
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