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were not analytically equipped to understand them, in spite of their recurrence in the last 25 years. In the pre-crisis … interpretations of the US crisis: to some extent, they point to potentially complementary factors, but disagree on their relative … importance, and therefore on policy recommendations. Research on the euro debt crisis has so far been much more limited: even …
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In this paper we develop empirical measures for the strength of spillover effects. Modifying and extending the framework by Diebold and Yilmaz (2011), we quantify spillovers between sovereign credit markets and banks in the euro area. Spillovers are estimated recursively from a vector...
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market disciple for systemically important banks which face, since the onset of the financial crisis, an increased premium on …
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We develop a methodology to identify and rank systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs). Our approach is consistent with that followed by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) but, unlike the latter, it is free of judgment and it is based entirely on publicly available data, thus...
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crisis. This provides a rare possibility to analyze appraisals, expectations and forecast errors of the core sector of the …
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This paper distils three lessons for bank regulation from the experience of the 2009-12 euro-area financial crisis …
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Did the August 2011 European short sale bans on financial stocks accomplish their goals? In order to answer this question, we use stock options' implied volatility skews to proxy for investors' risk aversion. We find that on ban announcement day, risk aversion levels rose for all stocks but more...
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Since the 2008 financial crisis, in which the Reserve Primary Fund "broke the buck," money market funds (MMFs) have … been the subject of ongoing policy debate. Many commentators view MMFs as a key contributor to the crisis because … redemptions in a time of crisis. Other reform proposals have similar shortcomings. More fundamentally, the SEC's reforms may …
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Die Vorstellung selbst-stabilisierender, zum Gleichgewicht tendierender Finanzmärkte, lange Zeit als Selbstverständlichkeit angesehen, ist durch die aktuelle Banken- und Kreditkrise in Frage gestellt. Trotz ausgefeilten Risikomanagements der Banken und einer an Basel II orientierten Aufsicht...
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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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