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Firms with limited internal liquidity significantly increased prices in 2008, while their liquidity unconstrained …. These results reflect the firms' reaction to preserve internal liquidity and avoid accessing external finance, factors that …
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The 2007-2009 recession is characterized by: a large drop in employment, an unprecedented decline in firm entry, and a slow recovery. Using confidential firm-level data, I show that financial constraints reduced employment growth in small relative to large firms by 4.8 to 10.5 percentage points....
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controlling for standard risk factors. Liquidity deteriorates on FTS days both in the bond and equity markets. Both economic …
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Although oil price shocks have long been viewed as one of the leading candidates for explaining U.S. recessions, surprisingly little is known about the extent to which oil price shocks explain recessions. We provide a formal analysis of this question with special attention to the possible role...
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In this paper, we document that mortgage-backed securities (MBS) held by the Federal Reserve exhibit faster principal prepayment rates than MBS held by the rest of the market. Next, we show that this stylized fact persists even when controlling for factors that affect prepayment behavior, and...
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We examine the impact of banks' liquidity risk management on secondary loan sales. We track the dynamics of bank loan … bank loans administered by U.S. regulators. We analyze the 2007-2009 financial crisis as a market-wide liquidity shock and … importance of bank liquidity risk management as a motivation for loan sales, in addition to the credit risk transfer motive …
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already increased in 2007, precisely when disruptions in bank funding markets began to squeeze aggregate liquidity. Consistent … with theory, our results confirm that firms use drawdowns to sustain investment after an idiosyncratic liquidity shock …. Low aggregate liquidity amplifies this effect significantly. During the financial crisis, the effect of drawdowns on …
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During the 2007-09 financial crisis, there were severe reductions in the liquidity of financial markets, runs on the … Reserve, in its role as lender of last resort (LOLR), injected extraordinary amounts of liquidity. In the aftermath, lawmakers … introduction of liquidity regulations. These changes were motivated in part by the argument that central bank lending entails …
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We examine the impact of banks' liquidity risk management on secondary loan sales. We track the dynamics of bank loan … bank loans administered by U.S. regulators. We analyze the 2007-2009 financial crisis as a market-wide liquidity shock and … importance of bank liquidity risk management as a motivation for loan sales, in addition to the credit risk transfer motive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011119862
Margin regulation raises two policy concerns. First, an alignment of margins to volatility can amplify procyclicality, leading to a build-up of excess leverage in good times and a forced deleverage in bad times. Second, competition among central counterparties (CCPs) can result in lower margin...
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