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We provide new empirical evidence concerning the contentious debate over the use of historical cost (HCA) versus mark-to-market (MTM) accounting in regulating financial institutions. These accounting rules, through their interactions with capital regulations, alter financial institutions’...
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to liquidity assistance as a solution to forbearance. Faced with a bank that chooses capital and liquidity, the … institution providing liquidity assistance can commit to a mixed strategy: never bailing out is too costly and therefore not … credible, while always bailing out causes moral hazard. In equilibrium, the bank chooses above minimum capital and liquidity …
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adequacy requirements, privately rational but socially inefficient disintermediation, and competitive international de-regulation … global liquidity creation by key central banks and, second, an ex-ante global saving glut, brought about by the entry of a … England’s liquidity management, regulatory failure of the FSA, an inadequate deposit insurance arrangement and deficient …
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We show that financial sector bailouts and sovereign credit risk are intimately linked. A bailout benefits the economy by ameliorating the under-investment problem of the financial sector. However, increasing taxation of the non-financial sector to fund the bailout may be inefficient since it...
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We analyze credit default swap settlement auctions theoretically and evaluate them empirically. In our theoretical …
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normative questions of how regulation of entry impacts welfare. …
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In this paper, we empirically investigate the impact of the credit risk of Eurozone member countries on the stability of the Euro. In the absence of a common euro bond, euro-area credit risk is induced though the credit default swaps of the member countries. The stability of the euro is examined...
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report evidence of significant incremental information revelation in the credit default swap (CDS) market, consistent with … affects prices or liquidity in either the equity or credit markets. If anything, with regard to liquidity, the reverse appears …
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This Paper analyses the response of stock and credit default swap (CDS) markets to rating announcements by the three …
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This Paper analyses corporate bond valuation and optimal call and default rules when interest rates and firm value are stochastic. It then uses the results to explain the dynamics of hedging. Bankruptcy rules are important determinants of corporate bond sensitivity to interest rates and firm...
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