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Bank Bailouts, International Linkages and Cooperation
Niepmann, Friederike; Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim - CESifo - 2011
intervention have stronger effects beyond borders. We provide a model of international contagion allowing for bank bailouts. While …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008872219
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Contagion in Financial Networks: A Threat Index
Demange, Gabrielle - CESifo - 2015
Interbank claims are a concern to regulators as they might facilitate the dissemination of defaults and generate spill-over effects. Building on a simple model, this paper introduces a measure of the spill-over effects that a bank generates when it defaults. The measure is based on an explicit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257674
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Financial Reform and Banking Crises
Shehzad, Choudhry Tanveer; Haan, Jakob de - CESifo - 2009
We examine the impact of various dimensions of financial reform on the likelihood of systemic and non-systemic banking crises. Using new financial reform measures for a large sample of developing and developed countries for the period 1973 to 2002, our multivariate probit modeling results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533993
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'By a Silken Thread': Regional Banking Integration and Pathways to Financial Development in Japan's Great Recession
Hoffmann, Mathias; Okubo, Toshihiro - CESifo - 2013
How do financial development and financial integration interact? We focus on Japan’s Great Recession after 1990 to study this question. Regional differences in banking integration affected how the recession spread across the country: financing frictions for credit-dependent firms were more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607005
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Stock Market Integration between three CEECs, Russia and the UK
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Spagnolo, Nicola - CESifo - 2010
Russia. The adopted framework allows to analyse interdependence by estimating volatility spillovers, and also contagion by … evidence on possible changes in the transmission mechanism (namely, on whether there is contagion) can be obtained by examining … spillovers between the three CEECs considered and the UK (contagion). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583722
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Risk-Sharing and Contagion in Networks
Cabrales, Antonio; Gottardi, Piero; Vega-Redondo, Fernando - CESifo - 2014
We investigate the trade-off between the risk-sharing gains enjoyed by more interconnected firms and the costs resulting from an increased risk exposure. We find that when the shock distribution displays “fat” tails, extreme segmentation into small components is optimal, while minimal...
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Market Structure and the Cost of Capital
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert; … - CESifo - 2013
We contribute to the finance literature in two main ways. First, we present a theoretical capital asset pricing model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877642
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Has the Euro Affected the Choice of Invoicing Currency?
Ligthart, Jenny; Werner, Sebastian E. V. - CESifo - 2010
We present a new approach to study empirically the effect of the introduction of the euro on currency invoicing. Our approach uses a compositional multinomial logit model, in which currency choice depends on the characteristics of both the currency and the country. We use unique quarterly panel...
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Unlocking the Value of Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions
Brakman, Steven; Garita, Gus; Garretsen, Harry; … - CESifo - 2008
Most FDI takes place between the developed countries, which suggests that the market-seeking motive is important for understanding FDI. However, given the stylized fact that trade barriers (e.g. transportation costs and financial barriers) have declined over the past 20 years, models that aim to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094463
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Inter-temporal Savings, Current Account Dynamics and Asymmetric Shocks in a Heterogeneous European Monetary Union
Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, Holger - CESifo - 2010
In the current debate on the reasons and implications of the Greek and Irish euro crisis, the intra-European current account imbalances have gained rising attention. Whereas Greece and Ireland struggle for austerity in private and public spending, Germany is urged to reduce its current account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833919