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.S. securities markets, examines loans of Treasury and agency securities in the domestic market. It highlights some important … loans. While we note that this characteristic sets securities lending apart from most repurchase agreement (repo … institutional characteristics of securities loan transactions, in particular the common use of agents to arrange the terms of the …
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Remarks at the New Jersey Bankers Association Economic Forum, Iselin, New Jersey.
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The financial crisis provides a natural experiment for testing theoretical predictions of the equity underwriter's role following an initial public offering. Clients of Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and Wachovia saw their stock prices fall almost 5 percent, on average, on the day...
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Joint written testimony before the Congressional Oversight Panel, Washington, D.C.
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Global banks played a significant role in transmitting the 2007-09 financial crisis to emerging-market economies. We examine adverse liquidity shocks on main developed-country banking systems and their relationships to emerging markets across Europe, Asia, and Latin America, isolating loan...
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Using bank-specific data on U.S. bank claims on individual foreign countries since the mid-1980s, this paper 1) characterizes the size and portfolio diversification patterns of the U.S. banks engaging in foreign lending, and 2) econometrically explores the determinants of fluctuations in U.S....
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This paper proposes a model to investigate the effects of monetary policy in an emerging market economy that experiences a sudden stop of capital inflows. The model features credit frictions, debt denominated in foreign currency, imported inputs, and households that have access to the...
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the credit market. We document that, following deregulation, (1) overall lending increased, (2) loss rates on loans …
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Payday loans are widely condemned as a “predatory debt trap.” We test that claim by researching how households in … Georgia and North Carolina have fared since those states banned payday loans in May 2004 and December 2005. Compared with … substitutes such as the bounced-check “protection” sold by credit unions and banks or loans from pawnshops.> …
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In August of 2007, banks faced a freeze in funding liquidity from the asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) market. We investigate how banks scrambled for liquidity in response to this freeze and its implications for corporate borrowing. Commercial banks in the United States raised deposits and...
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