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Banks are optimally opaque institutions. They produce debt for use as a transaction medium (bank money), which requires that information about the backing assets - loans - not be revealed, so that bank money does not fluctuate in value, reducing the efficiency of trade. This need for opacity...
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crisis. The key to these findings is that the model generates the sustained low level of interest rates observed over that …
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It is not surprising that the financing of early-stage creative projects and ventures is typically geographically localized since these types of funding decisions are usually predicated on personal relationships and due diligence requiring face-to-face interactions in response to high levels of...
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amount of regulatory capital, and therefore, more adversely affected by the credit crisis. Our empirical evidence supports …
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Time-inconsistency of no-bailout policies can create incentives for banks to take excessive risks and generate endogenous crises when the government cannot commit. However, at the outbreak of financial problems, usually the government is uncertain about their nature, and hence it may delay...
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This paper unveils a new resource for macroeconomic research: a long-run dataset covering disaggregated bank credit for 17 advanced economies since 1870. The new data show that the share of mortgages on banks' balance sheets doubled in the course of the 20th century, driven by a sharp rise of...
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The following paper describes the emergence of cooperative mortgage credit associations, called "Landschaften" in 18th century Prussia, and thereby tells the history of mortgage-covered bonds. Landschaften facilitated the refinancing of loans for Prussian estates by issuing covered bonds...
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the housing crisis by allowing buyers to purchase homes with small down payments. At the top of the housing market second …
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' assets and liabilities, including during the recent global financial crisis. We also create a Safety Net Index capturing the … insurance has become more widespread and more extensive in coverage since the global financial crisis, which also triggered a … since been formally removed but coverage of deposit insurance remains above pre-crisis levels, raising concerns about …
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-particularly for the pre-crisis period 2003--7 for which incentive pay was strongest. This result is robust if we instrument the bonus …. Moreover, pre-crisis incentive pay appears too strong for an optimal trade-off between trading income and risk which maximizes …
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