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We study aggregate lapsation risk in the life insurance sector. Using the regulatory reporting of historical lapse rates by life insurers, we empirically document the counter-cyclicality of lapsation behavior. We construct two lapsation risk factors that explain a large fraction of the common...
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The failure of the Freedman's Savings Bank (FSB), one of the only Black-serving banks in the early post-bellum South …
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We develop a new dataset to study homeowners insurance. Our data on over 47 million observations of households' property insurance expenditures from 2014-2023 are inferred from mortgage escrow payments. First, we find a sharp 33% increase in average premiums from 2020 to 2023 (13% in real terms)...
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important are the distortions in the greater regulation of banks that differentially limit risk-taking across alternative … addresses these questions and discusses how banks and nonbanks helped provide liquidity to the nonfinancial sector during the …
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The traditional model of bank-led financial intermediation, where banks issue demandable deposits to savers and make … size. Implicit banks' costs and subsidies explain shifting bank balance sheet composition. Together, these forces explain …
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banks. These two sectors are commonly viewed either as operating in parallel, performing different activities, or as … substitutes, performing substantially similar activities, with banks inside and NBFIs outside the perimeter of banking regulation … transformed over time rather than as having migrated from banks to NBFIs. These transformations are at least in part a response to …
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We analyze the effect of a major central bank digital currency (CBDC) - the digital euro - on the payment industry to find remarkably heterogeneous effects. Stock prices of U.S. payment firms decrease, while stock prices of European payment firms increase in response to positive announcements on...
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We show theoretically that variable production costs lower systematic risk of firms' cash flows if capital and variable inputs are complementary in firms' production and input prices are pro-cyclical. In our dynamic model, this operating hedge effect is weaker for more profitable firms, giving...
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We characterize how risk evolves during a crisis. Using high-frequency data, we find that the first two principal components (PCs) of the covariance matrix of global asset returns experience large, sudden, and temporary spikes coinciding with well-known crises - Covid-19 pandemic, Global...
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financial system; instead, it increased. We show that risk was redistributed to banks that were healthier prior to the financial …
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