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Hattori, Masazumi; Shin, Hyun Song - Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan - 2007

Yen carry trades have traditionally been viewed in narrow terms purely as a foreign exchange transaction. However, evidence from the waxing and waning of balance sheets of foreign banks operating in Japan points to a broader notion of the carry trade. Yen liabilities fund not only pure currency...

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Securitization, Transparency and Liquidity

Pagano, Marco; Volpin, Paolo - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2008

We present a model in which issuers of asset backed securities choose to release coarse information to enhance the liquidity of their primary market, at the cost of reducing secondary market liquidity or even causing it to freeze. The degree of transparency is inefficiently low if the social...

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Credit Ratings Failures and Policy Options

Pagano, Marco; Volpin, Paolo - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2009

This paper examines the role of credit rating agencies in the subprime crisis that triggered the 2007-08 financial turmoil. We focus on two aspects of ratings that contributed to the boom and bust of the market for structured debt: rating inflation and coarse information disclosure. The paper...

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Good Securitization, Bad Securitization

Plantin, Guillaume - Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan - 2011

I use a simple banking model to study the circumstances under which excessive and inefficient securitization may occur …. I first stress that increasing securitization rates that reduce banks' incentives to screen borrowers and thus lead to … the informational efficiency of the securitization market, then there is room for excessive securitization. The model …

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The German sub-national government bond market: evolution, yields and liquidity

Schulz, Alexander; Wolff, Guntram B. - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2008

The paper presents a comprehensive data set of all bonds issued by the sixteen German states (L¨ander) since 1992. It thus provides a complete picture of a capital market comparable in size to funds raised in the German fixed income market for corporations. The quantitative analysis reveals...

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How stressed are banks in the interbank market?

Abbassi, Puriya; Fecht, Falko; Weber, Patrick - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2013

We use a unique data set that comprises each bank's bids in the Eurosystem's main refinancing operations and its recourse to the LOLR facility (a) to derive banks' willingness-to-pay for liquidity through a one-week repo and (b) to show that a bank's willingness-to-pay is a good indicator for...

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International banking and liquidity risk transmission: Lessons from across countries

Buch, Claudia M.; Goldberg, Linda - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2014

management across global banks can be important for liquidity risk transmission into lending. Fourth, there is substantial …

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A network analysis of the evolution of the German interbank market

Roukny, Tarik; Georg, Co-Pierre; Battiston, Stefano - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2014

In this paper, we report a descriptive investigation of the structural evolution of two of the most important over-the-counter markets for liquidity in Germany: the interbank market for credit and for derivatives. We use end-of-quarter data from the German large credit register between 2002 and...

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The price of liquidity: bank characteristics and market conditions

Fecht, Falko; Nyborg, Kjell G.; Rocholl, Jörg - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2008

We study differences in the price paid for liquidity across banks using price data at the individual bank level. Unique to this paper, we also have data on individual banks' reserve requirements and actual reserve holdings, thus allowing us to gauge the extent to which a bank is short or long...

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Preferential regulatory treatment and banks' demand for government bonds

Bonner, Clemens - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2014

Government bonds receive preferential treatment in financial regulation. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of this preferential treatment on banks' demand for government bonds. Using unique transaction-level data, our analysis suggests that preferential treatment in liquidity...

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