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concentration. Instead, we build an early warning model of bank distress that includes a leading indicator derived from banks' share …
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This paper investigates whether banking crises are associated with declines in bilateral exports. We first develop a simple open economy model in which banking crises translate into negative liquidity shocks, leading to collapses in exports through supply-side and demand-side shocks. We then...
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) the central bank is not allowed to provide direct financial support to stressed member states or to play the role of … lender of last resort in sovereign bond markets, and (ii) the responsibility of fighting against large scale bank runs … pessimistic investors' expectations. Without significant backstop by the central bank, the financial safety net may actually …
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Drawing together the concepts of inefficiency and banking crisis is directly inspired by business cycles theory where a crisis is the turning point from which the market/economy is recovering. If inefficiency plays a role in the occurrence of banking crisis, the post-crisis period should be the...
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According to theoretical models of valuing risky corporate securities, risk of default is primary component in overall yield spread. However, sizable empirical literature considers it otherwise by giving more importance to non-default risk factors. Current study empirically attempts to provide...
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The purpose of this note is to describe a risk management procedure applicable to options on large credit portfolios such as CDO tranches on iTraxx or CDX. Credit spread risk is dynamically hedged using single name defaultable claims such as CDS while default risk is kept under control thanks to...
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This paper investigates the impact of non-interest income businesses on bank lending. Using quarterly data on 8,287 U …
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intermediation spreads). The sources of segmentation are in our case represented by funding costs and ultimately by bank ownership …. Using the GLS estimator on our panel dataset, we estimate the main determinants of bank interest margins as indicators of … market power on the individual bank level. Then we test the effect of foreign bank presence on overall asset quality. We use …
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We study the impact of asymmetric information in a general credit model where the default is triggered when a fundamental diff usion process of the firm passes below a random threshold. Inspired by some recent technical default events during the fi nancial crisis, we consider the role of the...
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This paper investigates risk and stability features of Islamic banking using a sample of 553 banks from 24 countries between 1999 and 2009. Small Islamic banks that are leveraged or based in countries with predominantly Muslim populations have lower credit risk than conventional banks. In terms...
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