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In the past two decades, a number of banks joined global initiatives aimed to mitigate climate change by "greening" their asset portfolios. We study whether banks that made such commitments have a different emission exposure of their portfolios of syndicated loans than banks that did not. We...
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associated with a stronger relationship between premiums and local disaster risk: A one standard-deviation increase in disaster … risk is associated with $500 higher premiums in 2023, up from $300 in 2018. Second, using the rapid rise in reinsurance … prices as a natural experiment, we show that the increase in the risk-to-premium gradient was largely caused by the pass …
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We study the spatial expansion of banks in response to banking deregulation in the 1980s and 90s. During this period …
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We use administrative credit registry data from Europe to study the impact of voluntary lender net zero commitments. We have two sets of findings. First, we find no evidence of lender divestment. Net zero banks neither reduce credit supply to the sectors they target for decarbonization nor do...
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We study the transmission of monetary policy through bank securities portfolios using granular supervisory data on U.S. bank securities, hedging positions, and corporate credit. Banks that experienced larger losses on their securities during the 2022-2023 monetary tightening cycle extended less...
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We study the impact of digital banking on the value of the deposit franchise and the stability of the banking sector …. Using the classification of digital banking in Koont (2023), we find that when the Fed funds rate increases, deposits flow …
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A nationwide banking panic forced President Franklin Roosevelt to declare a nationwide banking holiday immediately … concerning the conventional wisdom regarding intervening in a banking system amidst a systemic crisis …
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We ask whether banks use interest rate swaps to hedge the interest rate risk of their assets, primarily loans and … significant extent to which swap positions offset each other, the average bank has essentially no net interest rate risk from … of the banking system reveals that most swap exposures are offsetting. Therefore, as a description of prevailing practice …
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We use the 2020 Small Business Credit Survey to study the sources of racial disparities in use of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Black-owned firms are 8.9 percentage points less likely than observably similar white-owned firms to receive PPP loans. About 55% of this take-up disparity is...
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bank composition and risk. Overall, the average number of stockholders in a bank rose from 8 to 21 over the period with …
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