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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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Bad Bank(s) and Recapitalization of the Banking Sector

Schäfer, Dorothea; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

, the government would bear responsibility for the management and future resale of toxic assets at its own cost and …

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Dealing with Financial Crises: How Much Help from Research?

Pagano, Marco - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2014

Has economic research been helpful in dealing with the financial crises of the early 2000s? On the whole, the answer is negative, although there are bright spots. Economists have largely failed to predict both crises, largely because most of them were not analytically equipped to understand...

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Lessons from the European Financial Crisis

Pagano, Marco - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2014

banks’ risk-weighted assets were massively gamed by large banks, which engaged in various forms of regulatory arbitrage to …

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Detecting Mortgage Delinquencies

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Economic hardship is strongly reflected by the housing market. It is the concern of much research, but its analysis is often obstructed by insufficient lagged data. This paper evaluates search intensity for "hardship letter" from Google Insights to detect ensuing mortgage delinquencies. Such...

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Foreign Banks: Trends, Impact and Financial Stability

Claessens, Stijn; Horen, Neeltje van - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2011

Using a new, comprehensive database on bank ownership, identifying also the home country of foreign banks, for 137 countries over the period 1995-2009, this paper provides an overview of foreign bank activity and its impact of financial development and stability. We document substantial...

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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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