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US government bonds are widely considered to be the world's safe store of value. US government bonds are a large … fraction of safe asset portfolios, such as the porfolios of many central banks. The world demand for safe assets leads to low …
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We study the nature of sovereign credit risk using an extensive sample of CDS spreads for 26 developed and emerging-market countries. Sovereign credit spreads are surprisingly highly correlated, with just three principal components accounting for more than 50 percent of their variation....
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Now in prospect is a major revision of international bank capital regulations that would embody recent advances in … increase in bank failure rates over time …
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positions, was an important reason that a majority of banks tightened bank lending standards during the Great Recession. Our … significant portion of fluctuations in bank loans and aggregate output …
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credit limits to show that a bank's MPL depends on a small number of "sufficient statistics" that capture forces such as … highlights the importance of frictions in bank-borrower interactions for understanding the pass-through of credit expansions …
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rating analysts to party affiliations from voter records, we show that analysts who are not affiliated with the U …. We also find a sharp divergence in the rating actions of Democratic and Republican analysts around the 2016 presidential …
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Limited liability and asymmetric information between an investment bank and its lenders provide an incentive for a bank …
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