style of central banking affects central banks' solvency. A central bank is insolvent if its requirement to pay dividends to … Bank), and exchange-rate risk (central banks of small open economies). We find that a central bank that pays dividends … circumstances, the dividend will be negative, meaning that the government is making a payment to the bank. If the charter does not …

of deposit insurance as a function of capital-asset ratio for a bank with demand liabilities and longer term, default …

average bank has a large notional amount of swaps-- $434 billion, or more than 10 times assets. But after accounting for the … significant extent to which swap positions offset each other, the average bank has essentially no net interest rate risk from … banks, with some bank swap positions decreasing and some increasing with rates, but aggregating swap positions at the level …

Bank balance sheet lending is commonly viewed as the predominant form of lending. We document and study two margins of … document the limits of the shadow bank substitution margin: shadow banks substitute for traditional--deposit-taking--banks in … quantitative consequences of several policies on lending volume and pricing, bank stability, and the distribution of consumer …

recognizing greater risks and losses, can lead to solvency problems that look like liquidity (bank-run) crises. Regulatory …

hedge to fund drawn credit lines and other commitments. We shed new light on this issue by studying the behavior of bank …

Existing macroeconomic models focused on bank balance sheet lending are deficient because they do not account for the … investigate two increasingly significant margins of adjustment in credit markets: banks' ability to sell loans and shadow bank … following bank capital shock. Recovery is also faster, because profitable loan sales (e.g., securitization) allow banks to build …

, focusing on short-term gains but risking further losses if rates rose. Instead of hedging the market value risk of bank asset … fluctuations. More vulnerable banks were more likely to reclassify. Extending Jiang et al.'s (2023) solvency bank run model, we …

This paper studies the effects of contagion on bank lending spreads and output fluctuations in Argentina. The first … part presents the analytical framework, which analyzes the determination of bank lending spreads in the presence of … relates the ex ante bank lending spread, the cyclical component of output, the real bank lending rate, and the external …