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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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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008549311

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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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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What explains the surge in euro area sovereign spreads during the financial crisis of 2007-09?

Attinasi, Maria-Grazia; Checherita-Westphal, Cristina; … - European Central Bank - 2009

This paper uses a dynamic panel approach to explain the determinants of widening sovereign bond yield spreads vis-à-vis Germany in selected euro area countries during the period end-July 2007 to end-March 2009, when the financial turmoil developed into a full-blown financial and economic...

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Fiscal variables and bond spreads: evidence from eastern European countries and Turkey

Nickel, Christiane; Rother, Philipp; Rülke, Jan C. - European Central Bank - 2009

We investigate the impact of fiscal variables on bond yield spreads relative to US Treasury bonds in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia and Turkey from May 1998 to December 2007. To account for the importance of market expectations we use projected values for fiscal and macroeconomic...

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The role of fiscal transfers for regional economic convergence in Europe

Checherita-Westphal, Cristina; Nickel, Christiane; … - European Central Bank - 2009

This paper provides evidence on the role of net fiscal transfers to households and EU structural funds for per-capita output convergence across a large sample of European regions during the period 1995-2005. We find that net fiscal transfers, while achieving regional redistribution, seem to...

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Fiscal consolidations in the Central and Eastern European countries

Afonso, António; Nickel, Christiane; Rother, Philipp - European Central Bank - 2005

We study fiscal consolidations in the Central and Eastern European countries and what determines the probability of their success. We define consolidation events as substantive improvements in fiscal balances adjusting for the impact of cyclical effects. We use Logit models for the period...

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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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Fiscal policy and inflation volatility

Rother, Philipp - European Central Bank - 2004

Among the harmful effects of inflation, the negative consequences of inflation volatility are of particular concern. These include higher risk premia, hedging costs and unforeseen redistribution of wealth. This paper presents panel estimations for a sample of OECD countries which suggest that...

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