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We link banking and asset prices in a simple monetary macroeconomic model. Our main innovation is to consider how wide …-spread default affects the banking system. We find that the interaction of credit, asset prices, and loan losses explains a complete … whether a capital crunch, financial instability, or a banking crisis occurs. But self-fulfilling capital crunches and banking …
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This paper links banking with asset prices in a monetary macroeconomic model. The main innovation is to consider how … falling asset prices affect the banking system through wide-spread borrower default, while deriving explicit solutions and …-linear, and involves feedback from the banking system in the form of credit contraction. When borrowers repay, the effect ‘passes …
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We examine whether two commonly used indicators of bank fragility, the subordinated debt spread and KMV’s distance to default, yield signals in line with supervisors’ interests. We argue that supervisors would prefer indicators that are strictly increasing in earnings, and decreasing in...
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The Venture capital (VC) industry in India is of recent origin. However, the average investment value of each deal in … India have grown from $3.85 million in 2000 to $7.89 million in 2001.These developments together with the recent steps taken … by government to promote venture capitalism in India provide an opportunity for an examination of venture capital …
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In view of this changing landscape, we look at the three major drivers of growth in consumer finance: auto finance, housing finance and consumer durable finance. We discuss the trends in each of these areas as well as the shortcomings which are slowing down growth. We present some of the...
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This article investigates the factors that have induced and shaped the process of industry evolution of banking in the …
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This paper analyses market competition between two different types of credit card platforms: not-for-profit associations and proprietary systems. The main focus is on the role of the interchange fee set by not-for-profit platforms. We show that when the interchange fee is set so as to maximise...
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The primary purpose of this article is to investigate the relationship between bank capital and credit risk taking in emerging market economies. We also investigate the influence of several regulatory, institutional and legal features on the relationship between risk and capital. We apply a...
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The UK experienced a major residential real estate boom-bust cycle from the mid-Eighties to the mid-Nineties, accompanied by unprecedented shifts in the owner occupancy rate of young households. Previous empirical analyses have pointed toward income changes and financial deregulation as the...
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Bulgaria is a small South-eastern European country with a population of 8 million inhabitants in economic transition. During the bank crisis (1996-97) about 1/3 of all banks went bankrupt. On 5 July 1997, the Bulgarian government, jointly with IMF, introduced the Currency Board Arrangement,...
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