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We examine contagion from a number of financial systems to the German financial system using the information content of … evidence for contagion from the US and European financial systems. Our results additionally confirm that the set up of the … financial rescue scheme in Germany partially shielded German banks but not insurance companies from contagion. Overall, our …
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We identify the connections between financial institutions from different sectors of the financial industry based on joint extreme movements in credit default swap (CDS) spreads. First, we estimate pairwise co-crash probabilities (CCP) to identify significant connections among 193 international...
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institutes in the sample. In stress tests, up to one fifth of the CDS spread changes are owing to financial contagion. These …
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It is widely believed that the Fed controls the funds rate by altering the degree of pressure in the reserve market through open market operations when it changes its target for the federal funds rate. Recently, however, several economists have suggested that open market operations may not be...
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SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum, the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS) took the opportunity of the first anniversary of this new institution to organise a joint conference in Berlin on 8-9 November 2011. The purpose of this event was...
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This paper studies the importance of money for inflation in the euro area. An inflation equation is derived from a small model that combines the supply and demand for money with a Phillips curve and the assumption that inflation expectations develop adaptively. The model's solution attributes an...
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Carrying out interbank contagion simulations for the German banking sector for the period from the first quarter of … interbank contagion over time. (ii) The loss distribution for each point in time can be condensed into one indicator, the …
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This paper studies German bank lending during the Asian and Russian crises, using a bank level data set, which has been compiled from credit data at the Deutsche Bundesbank. Our aim is to gain more insight into the pattern of German bank lending during financial crises in emerging markets. We...
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contagion depends on the precise pattern of interbank linkages. We use balance sheet information to estimate the matrix of … contagion. We find that the financial safety net (institutional guarantees for saving banks and cooperative banks) considerably … reduces – but does not eliminate – the danger of contagion. Even so, the failure of a single bank could lead to the breakdown …
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more stable than random networks. Systemic risk via contagion is compared to common shocks and it is shown that both forms …
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