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Pakistan, and exploiting cross-bank variation in liquidity shocks induced by the unanticipated nuclear tests in 1998. We … isolate the causal impact of the bank lending channel by showing that for the same firm borrowing from two different banks …, its loan from the bank experiencing a 1% larger decline in liquidity drops by an additional 0.6%. The liquidity shock also …
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This paper investigates the impact on bank stock prices of emerging market currency crises and bailouts. The stock … events in countries experiencing a crisis. The paper uses the impact of the LTCM crisis on bank stock prices to put the …
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their investors. We show the bank has to have a fragile capital structure, subject to bank runs, in order to perform these … functions. Far from being an aberration to be regulated away, the funding of illiquid loans by a bank with volatile demand … such as narrow banking and bank capital requirements …
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This paper examines the impact of the Asian crisis on bank stocks across four Western countries and six Asian countries …. In the second half of 1997, Western banks experienced positive returns. In contrast East Asian bank indices incurred … market impact only in Indonesia and the Philippines. Except for the Korean program, IMF programs had little effect on bank …
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We study the corporate-loan pricing decisions of a major Greek bank during the Greek financial crisis. A unique aspect … of our dataset is that we observe both the interest rate and the "breakeven rate" of each loan, as computed by the bank …
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Countercyclical capital buffers (CCyBs) are an old idea recently resurrected. CCyBs compel banks at the core of financial systems to accumulate capital during expansions so that they are better able to sustain operations during downturns. To gauge the potential impact of modern CCyBs, we compare...
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present a model that explains the slow recovery of bank capital and economic activity. Banks provide intermediation in markets … selection. Adverse selection lowers bank profit margins which slows both the internal growth of equity and equity injections …
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pre-crisis data, in order to study the impact of government guarantees on bank performance during a crisis. Using bank … private sector bank branches in districts with greater exposure to state-owned banks experienced deposit withdrawals and … shortening of deposit maturity. In contrast, nearby vulnerable state-owned bank branches grew their deposit base and increased …
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fragility manifests itself in stronger sensitivity of deposit flows to bank performance. A deterioration in the aggregate … conditions in the banking system makes the fragility within each bank stronger. We run multiple tests to show that depositors …
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-dimensional borrower heterogeneity. Based on characterizations of securities' implicit demand for bank equity capital, we obtain closed …-form expressions for the composition of credit, including a sufficient statistic for the provision of bank loans, and a novel cross …
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