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funds act as liquidity providers. Hedge funds using Lehman as prime broker could not trade after the bankruptcy, and these …-connected hedge funds in turn experienced greater declines in market liquidity following the bankruptcy than other stocks; and, the … effect was larger for ex ante illiquid stocks. We conclude that shocks to traders' funding liquidity reduce the market …
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How did the Subprime Crisis, a problem in a small corner of U.S. financial markets, affect the entire global banking system? To shed light on this question we use principal components analysis to identify common factors in the movement of banks' credit default swap spreads. We find that fortunes...
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We study sovereign external debt crises over the past 200 years, with a focus on creditor losses, or "haircuts". Our sample covers 327 sovereign debt restructurings with external private creditors over 205 default spells since 1815. Creditor losses vary widely (from none to 100%), but the...
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We build a model of financial sector illiquidity in an open economy. Illiquidity defined as a situation in which a country's consolidated financial system has potential short-term obligations in foreign currency that exceed the amount of foreign currency it can have access to on short notice can...
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This paper deals with the relations among international liquidity,the exchange-rate regime and the effectiveness of … provision of liquidity …
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economy-wide sales of external assets. Consistent with our theory, we find that the predicted liquidity shock has a strong … liquidity shocks, the liquidation price they can get will be lower when buyers know that they have more information on … expectation of future liquidity problems export relatively more FPI than FDI, and (2) this effect strengthens as the source …
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We investigate global factors associated with cross-border capital flows. We formulate a model of gross capital flows through the international banking system and derive a closed form solution that highlights the leverage cycle of global banks as being a prime determinant of the transmission of...
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allows banks in different regions to smooth local liquidity shocks by borrowing and lending on a world interbank market. We … show under which conditions financial integration induces banks to reduce their liquidity holdings and to shift their … portfolios towards more profitable but less liquid investments. Integration helps reallocate liquidity when different banks are …
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financial crisis. Yet we know little about the actual magnitudes and mechanisms for transmission of liquidity shocks through … studies conducted in eleven countries to explore liquidity risk transmission. Among the main results is, first, that … explanatory power of the empirical model is higher for domestic lending than for international lending. Second, how liquidity risk …
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We study how an economy's production structure determines the response of aggregate output and employment to sectoral financial shocks. In our framework, economic production is organized in an input-output network in which firms face financial constraints on their working capital. We show how...
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