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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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Systemic risk and bank business models

Oordt, Maarten van; Zhou, Chen - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2014

In this study we disentangle two dimensions of banks' systemic risk: the level of bank tail risk and the linkage between a bank's tail risk and severe shocks in the financial system. We employ a measure of the systemic risk of financial institutions that can be decomposed into two subcomponents...

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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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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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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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Early warning for currency crises: what is the role of financial openness?

Frost, Jon; Saiki, Ayako - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2013

We explore the role of financial openness - capital account openness and gross capital inflows - and a newly constructed gravity-based contagion index to assess the importance of these factors in the run-up to currency crises. Using a quarterly data set of 46 advanced and emerging market...

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Indicator and boundaries of financial stability

End, Jan Willem van den - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2006

This paper presents an information variable for financial stability consisting of a composite index and its related critical boundaries. It is an extension of a Financial Conditions Index with information on financial institutions. The indicator is bounded, on one side, by the instability...

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Effect of bank capital requirements on economic growth: a survey

Martynova, Natalya - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2015

This paper reviews studies exploring how higher bank capital requirements affect economic growth. There is little evidence of a direct effect; research focuses on the indirect effects of capital requirements on credit supply, bank asset risk, and cost of bank capital, which in turn can affect...

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Multinational Banks and the Global Financial Crisis. Weathering the Perfect Storm?

Haas, Ralph de; Lelyveld, Iman van - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2011

We use data on the 48 largest multinational banking groups to compare the lending of their 199 foreign subsidiaries during the Great Recession with lending by a benchmark group of 202 domestic banks. Contrary to earlier, more contained crises, parent banks were not a significant source of...

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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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