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Financial Policies and the Prevention of Financial Crises in Emerging Market Countries
Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2001
This paper outlines a set of financial policies that can help make financial crises less likely in emerging market countries. To justify these policies, the paper first explains what a financial crisis is, the factors that promote a financial crisis and the dynamics of a financial crisis. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470642
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Ethical Foundations of Financial Regulation
Kane, Edward J. - 1997
Regulation consists of rulemaking and enforcement. Economic theory offers two complementary rationales for regulating … arise in multi- party relationships and that regulation introduces opportunities to impose rules that enhance the welfare of … discretion and choose actions for the common good. Agency-cost theories portray regulation as a way to raise the quality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472798
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Monetary Tightening and U.S. Bank Fragility in 2023 : Mark-to-Market Losses and Uninsured Depositor Runs?
Jiang, Erica Xuewei; Matvos, Gregor; Piskorski, Tomasz; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We analyze U.S. banks' asset exposure to a recent rise in the interest rates with implications for financial stability. The U.S. banking system's market value of assets is $2 trillion lower than suggested by their book value of assets accounting for loan portfolios held to maturity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247969
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Evidence of Differences in the Effectiveness of Safety-Net Management in European Union Countries
Carbo-Valverde, Santiago - 2008
EU financial safety nets are social contracts that assign uncertain benefits and burdens to taxpayers in different member countries. To help national officials to assess their taxpayers' exposures to loss from partner countries, this paper develops a way to estimate how well markets and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464865
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Regulation and Supervision : An Ethical Perspective
Kane, Edward J. - 2008
This essay shows that government credit-allocation schemes generate incentive conflicts that undermine the quality of bank supervision and eventually produce banking crisis. For political reasons, most countries establish a regulatory culture that embraces three economically contradictory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464752
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Liquidity Risk, Liquidity Creation and Financial Fragility : A Theory of Banking
Diamond, Douglas W. - 1999
Both investors and borrowers are concerned about liquidity. Investors desire liquidity because they are uncertain about when they will want to eliminate their holding of a financial asset. Borrowers are concerned about liquidity because they are uncertain about their ability to continue to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471328
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The Lessons from the Banking Panics in the United States in the 1930s for the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008
Bordo, Michael D. - 2010
In this paper we revisit the debate over the role of the banking panics in 1930-33 in precipitating the Great Contraction. The issue hinges over whether the panics were illiquidity shocks and hence in support of Friedman and Schwartz (1963) greatly exacerbated the recession which had begun in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462291
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Understanding Financial Crises : A Developing Country Perspective
Mishkin, Frederic S. - 1996
inforamtion framework shows why the banking sector is so important to the economy, and provides a rationale for bank regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473248
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Preventing Financial Crises : An International Perspective
Mishkin, Frederic S. - 1994
In recent years the possibility of an international financial crisis has increased because of greater liquidity of international financial markets, an increase in corporate indebtedness and the decline of the banking industry. Using an asymmetric information analysis, this paper outlines what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474300
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How Did Pre-Fed Banking Panics End?
Gorton, Gary - 2016
How did pre-Fed banking crises end? How did depositors' beliefs change? During the National Banking Era, 1863-1914, banks responded to the severe panics by suspending convertibility, that is, they refused to exchange cash for their liabilities (checking accounts). At the start of the suspension...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456638