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Endogenous liquidity and contagion

Rahi, Rohit; Zigrand, Jean-Pierre - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

. Our model is well-suited to study the contagion-like eects of liquidity shocks. …

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Market quality and contagion in fragmented markets

Rahi, Rohit; Zigrand, Jean-Pierre - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

proxies. The model is especially well-suited to study the contagion-like effects of liquidity shocks. …

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Coordination failures and the lender of last resort: was Bagehot right after all?

Rochet, Jean-Charles; Vives, Xavier - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

The classical doctrine of the Lender of Last Resort, elaborated by Thornton (1802) and Bagehot (1873), asserts that the Central Bank should lend to “illiquid but solvent” banks under certain conditions. Several authors have argued that this view is now obsolete: when interbank markets are...

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A theory of strategic intermediation and endogenous liquidity

Rahi, Rohit; Zigrand, Jean-Pierre - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

intermedia- tion services (i.e. \liquidity") in exchange for an endogenous fee. Our model is well suited to study the contagion …

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Dynamic equilibrium with rare events and heterogeneous Epstein-Zin investors

Chabakauri, Georgy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

We consider a general equilibrium Lucas (1978) economy with one consumption good and two heterogeneous Epstein-Zin investors. The output is subject to rare large drops or, more generally, can have non-lognormal distribution with higher cumulants. The heterogeneity in preferences generates excess...

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Crisis?: What crisis?: currency vs. banking in the financial crisis of 1931

Ritschl, Albrecht; Salferaz, Samad - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This paper examines the role of currency and banking in the German financial crisis of 1931 for both Germany and the U.S. We specify a structural dynamic factor model to identify financial and monetary factors separately for each of the two economies. We find that monetary transmission through...

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Financial contagion through capital connections: a model of the origin and spread of bank panics

Dasgupta, Amil - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

Financial contagion is modeled as an equilibrium phenomenon in a dynamic setting with incomplete information and … failure of a financial institution. We show that contagion is possible in the unique equilibrium of the economy and … of contagion risk. Our results suggest that when the probability of bank failure is low, maximal levels of interbank …

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Equilibrium analysis, banking, contagion and financial fragility

Tsomocos, Dimitrios P. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

for positive default levels in equilibrium. It also characterises contagion and financial fragility as an equilibrium …

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Systemic sovereign risk: macroeconomic implications in the euro area

Bahaj, Saleem A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

What are the macroeconomic implications of changes in sovereign risk premia? In this paper, I use a novel identification strategy coupled with a new dataset for the Euro Area to answer this question. I show that exogenous innovations in sovereign risk premia were an important driver of the...

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Balance sheet capacity and endogenous risk

Danielsson, Jon; Song Shin, Hyun; Zigrand, Jean-Pierre - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Banks operating under Value-at-Risk constraints give rise to a welldefined aggregate balance sheet capacity for the banking sector as a whole that depends on total bank capital. Equilibrium risk and market risk premiums can be solved in closed form as functions of aggregate bank capital. We...

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