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Corporate credit lines are drawn more heavily when funding markets are more stressed. This covariance elevates expected bank funding costs. We show that credit supply is dampened by the associated debt-overhang cost to bank shareholders. Until 2022, this impact was reduced by linking the...
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This paper provides quantitative evidence on interbank transmission of financial distress in the Panic of 1907 and ensuing recession. Originating in New York City, the panic led to payment suspensions and emergency currency issuance in many cities. Data on the universe of interbank connections...
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Central banks provide public liquidity to traditional (regulated) banks with the intention of stabilizing the financial … system. Shadow banks are not regulated, yet they indirectly access such liquidity through the interbank system. We build a … model that shows how public liquidity provision may change the linkages between traditional and shadow banks, increasing …
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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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We develop a model of the market for federal funds that explicitly accounts for its two distinctive features: banks have to search for a suitable counterparty, and once they meet, both parties negotiate the size of the loan and the repayment. The theory is used to answer a number of positive and...
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This paper explores how international money markets reflected credit and liquidity risks during the global financial … markets, while liquidity risk caused the difference across the currency denominations. They also support the view that a … shortage of US dollar as liquidity distorted the international money markets during the crisis. We find that coordinated …
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Over the past twenty years, especially the past decade, China has taken enormous strides to develop its bond market as an integral step of financial reform. This paper aims to provide the most up-to-date overview of Chinese bond markets, by highlighting two distinct and largely segmented...
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This chapter provides an overview of the federal funds market and how the equilibrium federal fund rate is determined. I devote particular attention to comparing and contrasting the federal funds market before and after 2008, since there were several dramatic changes around that time that...
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Financial network structure is an important determinant of systemic risk. This paper examines how the U.S. interbank network evolved over a long and important period that included two key events: the founding of the Federal Reserve and the Great Depression. Banks established connections to...
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I develop a dynamic model of leverage with tax deductible interest and an endogenous cost of default. The interest rate includes a premium to compensate lenders for expected losses in default. A borrowing constraint is generated by lenders' unwillingness to lend an amount that would trigger...
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