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the default risk of banks designated as globally systemically important by the Financial Stability Board. We find that … bank market values hardly respond to changes in the default risk of individual systemic banks. Together, however, changes … in systemic banks’ default risk explain a substantial part of changes in other banks’ market values. This result is …
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I analyze the optimal design of banking supervision in the presence of cross-border lending. Cross-border lending could imply that an individual bank failure in one country could trigger negative spillover effects in another country. Such cross-border contagion effects could turn out to be...
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This paper extends the standard human capital model with real options. Real options influence investment behavior when risky investments in human capital are irreversible and individuals can affect the timing of the investment. Option values make individuals more reluctant to invest in human...
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-cyclical instruments; 6. Boundaries of regulation, conduits, SIVs and reputational risk; 7. Crisis management:- (a) domestic, within …There are, at least, seven aspects relating to financial regulation where the recent, and still current, financial … risk management; 5. Procyclicality of capital adequacy requirements (and mark-to-market), Basel II; lack of counter …
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Both global imbalances and financial market (de-)regulation feature prominently among the potential causes of the … investigate the relationship between financial market regulation and current account balances, an area for which limited empirical …
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This paper uses panel vector autoregressive models and simulations of an estimated DSGE model to explore the reaction of Euro–area banks to the global financial crisis. We focus on their interest–rate setting behavior in response to standard macroeconomic shocks. Our main empirical finding...
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We evaluate the impact of the global financial crisis (GFC) and recent structural changes in the patterns of hoarding international reserves (IR). We confirm that the determinants of IR hoarding evolve with developments in the global economy. During the pre-GFC period of 1999-2006, gross saving...
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of last resort and other safety net issues. We devote particular emphasis to the analysis of systemic risk and contagion …
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In this paper we review recent advances in financial economics in relation to the measurement of systemic risk. We … start by reviewing studies that apply traditional measures of risk to financial institutions. However, the main focus of the …. Applications of these techniques for the analysis and pricing of systemic risk has already provided significant benefits at least …
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We present a network model of the interbank market in which optimizing risk averse banks lend to each other and invest … contribution of systemic risk by means of Shapley values. Within this framework we analyze the effects of prudential policies on … the stability/efficiency trade-off. Liquidity requirements unequivocally decrease systemic risk but at the cost of lower …
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