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Assessing Targeted Macroprudential Financial Regulation: The Case of the 2006 Commercial Real Estate Guidance for Banks
Bassett, William F.; Marsh, Blake - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2014
In the mid-2000s, federal bank regulatory agencies became alarmed by steadily increasing concentrations of commercial real estate (CRE) loans at many banks, particularly loans used to finance construction and land development (CLD). In January 2006, they issued guidance that required banks with...
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Bank Interventions and Options-based Systemic Risk: Evidence from the Global and Euro-area Crisis
Londono, Juan M.; Tian, Mary - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2014
Using a novel dataset on central bank interventions to financial institutions, we examine the impact of capital injection announcements on systemic risk for the banking sector in the U.S. and the euro area between 2008 and 2013. We propose a new measure of options-based systemic risk called...
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Are the Borrowing Costs of Large Financial Firms Unusual?
Ahmed, Javed I.; Anderson, Christopher W.; Zarutskie, … - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2015
Estimates of investor expectations of government support of large financial firms are often based on large financial firms' lower borrowing costs relative to smaller financial firms. Using pricing data on credit default swaps (CDS) and corporate bonds over the period 2004 to 2013, however, we...
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Government Connections and Financial Constraints: Evidence from a Large Representative Sample of Chinese Firms
Cull, Robert; Li, Wei; Sun, Bo; Xu, Lixin Colin - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2015
We examine the role of firms' government connections, defined by government intervention in CEO appointment and the status of state ownership, in determining the severity of financial constraints faced by Chinese firms. We demonstrate that government connections are associated with substantially...
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Do Small Businesses Still Prefer Community Banks?
Berger, Allen N.; Goulding, William; Rice, Tara - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2013
We formulate and test hypotheses about the role of bank type – small versus large, single-market versus multimarket, and local versus nonlocal banks – in banking relationships. The conventional paradigm suggests that "community banks" – small, single market, local institutions – are...
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Bank Liquidity and Capital Regulation in General Equilibrium
Covas, Francisco; Driscoll, John C. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2014
We develop a nonlinear dynamic general equilibrium model with a banking sector and use it to study the macroeconomic impact of introducing a minimum liquidity standard for banks on top of existing capital adequacy requirements. The model generates a distribution of bank sizes arising from...
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Why Do We Need Both Liquidity Regulations and a Lender of Last Resort? A Perspective from Federal Reserve Lending during the 2007-09 U.S. Financial Crisis
Carlson, Mark A.; Duygan-Bump, Burcu; Nelson, William R. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2015
During the 2007-09 financial crisis, there were severe reductions in the liquidity of financial markets, runs on the shadow banking system, and destabilizing defaults and near-defaults of major financial institutions. In response, the Federal Reserve, in its role as lender of last resort (LOLR),...
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An Empirical Analysis of Futures Margin Changes: Determinants and Policy Implications
Abruzzo, Nicole; Park, Yang-Ho - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2014
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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The Real Effects of Credit Line Drawdowns
Berrospide, Jose M.; Meisenzahl, Ralf R. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2015
Do firms use credit line drawdowns to finance investment? Using a unique dataset of 467 COMPUSTAT firms with credit lines, we study the purpose of drawdowns during the 2007-2009 financial crisis. Our data show that credit line drawdowns had already increased in 2007, precisely when disruptions...
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Limited Deposit Insurance Coverage and Bank Competition
Shy, Oz; Stenbacka, Rune; Yankov, Vladimir - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2014
Deposit insurance schemes in many countries place a limit on the coverage of deposits in each bank. However, no limits … are placed on the number of accounts held with different banks. Therefore, under limited deposit insurance, some consumers … open accounts with different banks to achieve higher or full deposit insurance coverage. We compare three regimes of …
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