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temporary increase in the government protection of non-deposit liabilities and bank assets. In most cases, these guarantees have …
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We study how a mortgage reform that exogenously increased access to credit had an impact on entrepreneurship, using individual-level micro data from Denmark. The reform allows us to disentangle the role of credit access from wealth effects that typically confound analyses of the collateral...
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I consider four policies created to address the financial crisis: (1) the ability-to-repay requirement in mortgage underwriting; (2) reform of rating agency compensation, (3) risk retention in securitization, and (4) mandatory loan renegotiation. I show that according to standard models,...
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bank failure rates in Michigan during the period 1932-1934, which includes the important Michigan banking crisis of early … purchases (the policy tool employed after March 1933) on bank failure rates. Our estimates treat the receipt of RFC assistance … assistance that are not directly related to failure risk) for analyzing the effects of RFC assistance on bank survival. We find …
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We analyze a variant of the Diamond-Dybvig (1983) model of banking in which savers can use a bank to invest in a risky … project operated by an entrepreneur. The savers can buy equity in the bank and save via deposits. The bank chooses to invest … in a safe asset or to fund the entrepreneur. The bank and the entrepreneur face limited liability and there is a …
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mismatch in their balance sheets. The data suggest that foreign banks had to borrow from the Federal Reserve Bank to meet their …
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We show that Eurozone bank risks during 2007-2012 can be understood as a "carry trade" behavior. Bank equity returns … exploit government guarantees, arbitrage regulatory risk weights, and access central-bank funding, we find that this carry …-GIPSI countries' banks, but not so for similar banks in other Western economies or for non-bank firms. …
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We analyze the effectiveness of consumer financial regulation by considering the 2009 Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act in the United States. Using a difference-in- differences research design and a unique panel data set covering over 160 million credit card...
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The announcement of Timothy Geithner as nominee for Treasury Secretary in November 2008 produced a cumulative abnormal return for financial firms with which he had a connection. This return was about 6% after the first full day of trading and about 12% after ten trading days. There were...
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The intersection of research and policy on consumer credit often has a Goldilocks feel. Some researchers and policymakers posit that consumer credit markets produce too much credit. Other researchers and policymakers posit that markets produce too little credit. I review theories and evidence on...
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