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Liquidity hoarding and interbank market spreads: the role of counterparty risk

Heider, Florian; Hoerova, Marie; Holthausen, Cornelia - European Central Bank - 2009

banks to have private information about the risk of their assets. We show how banks’ asset risk affects funding liquidity in … state with adverse selection and elevated rates; and iii) market breakdown with liquidity hoarding. We provide an … of unsecured rates and excess reserves banks hold, as well as the inability of massive liquidity injections by central …

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Interbank lending, credit risk premia and collateral

Heider, Florian; Hoerova, Marie - European Central Bank - 2009

We study the functioning of secured and unsecured inter-bank markets in the presence of credit risk. The model generates empirical predictions that are in line with developments during the 2007-2009 financial crises. Interest rates decouple across secured and unsecured markets following an...

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Run-prone banking and asset markets

Hoerova, Marie - European Central Bank - 2007

insure consumers against privately observed liquidity shocks. Asset market investments insure consumers against losses from … bank runs. If the probability of a run is small, then banks specialize fully into the provision of liquidity insurance …: They provide a higher degree of liquidity insurance when compared to the economy with banks alone. If the probability of a …

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Commonality in hedge fund returns: driving factors and implications

Bussière, Matthieu; Hoerova, Marie; Klaus, Benjamin - European Central Bank - 2014

We measure the commonality in hedge fund returns, identify its main driving factor and analyse its implications for financial stability. We find that hedge funds’ commonality increased significantly from 2003 until 2006. We attribute this rise mainly to the increase in hedge funds’ exposure...

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Fiscal developments and financial stress: a threshold VAR analysis

Afonso, António; Baxa, Jaromír; Slavík, Michal - European Central Bank - 2011

We use a threshold VAR analysis to study whether the effects of fiscal policy on economic activity differ depending on financial market conditions. In particular, we investigate the possibility of a non-linear propagation of fiscal developments according to different financial market stress...

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Level, slope, curvature of the sovereign yield curve, and fiscal behaviour

Afonso, António; Martins, Manuel M.F. - European Central Bank - 2010

We study fiscal behaviour and the sovereign yield curve in the U.S. and Germany in the period 1981:I-2009:IV. The latent factors, level, slope and curvature, obtained with the Kalman filter, are used in a VAR with macro and fiscal variables, controlling for financial stress conditions. In the...

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Debt and growth: new evidence for the euro area

Baum, Anja; Checherita-Westphal, Cristina; Rother, Philipp - European Central Bank - 2012

Against the background of the euro area sovereign debt crisis, our paper investigates the relationship between public debt and economic growth and adds to the existing literature in the following ways. First, we extend the threshold panel methodology by Hansen (1999) to a dynamic setting in...

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Market power and fiscal policy in OECD countries

Afonso, António; Costa, Luís F. - European Central Bank - 2010

We compute average mark-ups as a measure of market power throughout time and study their interaction with fiscal policy and macroeconomic variables in a VAR framework. From impulse-response functions the results, with annual data for a set of 14 OECD countries covering the period 1970-2007, show...

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Expansionary fiscal consolidations in Europe: new evidence

Afonso, António - European Central Bank - 2006

In order to assess the existence of expansionary fiscal consolidations in Europe, panel data models for private consumption are estimated for the EU15 countries, using annual data over the period 1970–2005. Three alternative approaches to determine fiscal episodes are used, and the level of...

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Government size, composition, volatility and economic growth

Afonso, António; Furceri, Davide - European Central Bank - 2008

This paper analyses the effects in terms of size and volatility of government revenue and spending on growth in OECD and EU countries. The results of the paper suggest that both variables are detrimental to growth. In particular, looking more closely at the effect of each component of government...

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