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The goal of integrated risk management in a financial institution is to measure and manage risk and capital across a range of diverse business activities. This requires an approach for aggregating risk types (market, credit, and operational) whose distributional shapes vary considerably. In this...
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Testimony before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection Subcommittee.
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We employ a model of leverage-induced explosive behavior in financial markets to develop a measure of financial market instability. Specifically, we derive a quantitative condition for how large levered investors can become relative to the whole market before the demand curve for securities...
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This paper explores financial stability policies for the shadow banking system. I tie policy options to economic mechanisms for shadow banking that have been documented in the literature. I then illustrate the role of shadow bank policies using three examples: agency mortgage real estate...
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liquidity. Asset shocks impair a bank’s ability to roll over debt because of agency problems associated with high leverage. In …
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financial market segmentation. If we enrich the set of observables with a measure of long-term debt, the semi-elasticity of the … risk premium to the amount of debt in private-sector hands is substantially smaller than that reported in the recent …
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research questions survey respondents’ propensity and ability to report debt characteristics accurately. We compare household … debt as reported by borrowers to the SCF with household debt as reported by lenders to Equifax using the new FRBNY Consumer … Credit Panel (CCP). Moments of the borrower and lender debt distributions are compared by year, age of household head …
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More than three-quarters of U.S. households bear consumer debt, yet we have little understanding of the relationship … between financial education and the debt behavior of U.S. consumers. In this paper, we study the effects of exposure to … financial training on debt outcomes in early adulthood. Identification comes from variation in financial literacy, economics …
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scale and composition of the public debt, matter for inflation. As a result, fiscal policy constrains the efficacy of … monetary policy. Heavily indebted economies with debt maturity structures observed in many countries require aggressive … moderate had fiscal policy been characterized by a scale and composition of public debt now witnessed in some advanced …
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Remarks at the Quarterly Regional Economic Press Briefing, New York City.
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