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We propose the realized systemic risk beta as a measure for financial companies' contribution to systemic risk given network interdependence between firms' tail risk exposures. Conditional on statistically pre-identified network spillover effects and market as well as balance sheet information,...
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. By looking at 5,500 issues over the period 2005-2012, we find that in recent years the sovereign debt market turbulence … premium due to the negative spillovers from the sovereign debt crisis, while German firms got a discount of 40 basis points. …
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the European sovereign debt crisis and how it is reflected in network statistics and systemic risk measures. Illustrating …
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We study to what extent firms spread out their debt maturity dates across time, which we call granularity of corporate … debt. We consider the role of debt granularity using a simple model in which a firm's inability to roll over expiring debt … single large one, firms may diversify debt rollovers across maturity dates. We construct granularity measures using data on …
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Some of the most widely expressed myths about the German financial system are concerned with the close ties and intensive interaction between banks and firms, often described as Hausbank relationships. Links between banks and firms include direct shareholdings, board representation, and proxy...
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Some of the most widely expressed myths about the German financial system are concerned with the close ties and intensive interaction between banks and firms, often described as Hausbank relationships. Links between banks and firms include direct shareholdings, board representation, and proxy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005600439
stressed in the literature on the use of subordinated debt, but also from the asset side. This will be particularly true if …
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This paper uses a unique data set from credit files of six leading German banks to provide some empirical insights into their rating systems used to classify corporate borrowers. On the basis of the New Basle Capital Accord, which allows banks to use their internal rating systems to compute...
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stressed in the literature on the use of subordinated debt, but also from the asset side. This will be particularly true if …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005176435
We study a model where some investors ("hedgers") are bad at information processing, while others ("speculators") have superior information-processing ability and trade purely to exploit it. The disclosure of financial information induces a trade externality: if speculators refrain from trading,...
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