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Counterparty Risk and the Establishment of the New York Stock Exchange Clearinghouse
Weidenmier, Marc; Bernstein, Asaf; Hughson, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Heightened counterparty risk during the recent financial crisis has raised questions about the role clearinghouses play in global financial stability. Empirical identification of the effect of centralized clearing on counterparty risk is challenging because of the co-incidence of macro-economic...
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Repo and Securities Lending
Martin, Antoine; Adrian, Tobias; Begalle, Brian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We provide an overview of the data required to monitor repo and securities lending markets for the purposes of informing policymakers and researchers about firm-level and systemic risk. We start by explaining the functioning of these markets and argue that it is crucial to understand the...
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The Effects of Reconstruction Finance Corporation Assistance on Michigan's Banks' Survival in the 1930s
Calomiris, Charles W.; Weidenmier, Marc; Mason, Joseph R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
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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Defined Contribution Pension Plans: Sticky or Discerning Money?
Sialm, Clemens; Starks, Laura; Zhang, Hanjiang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Participants in defined contribution (DC) retirement plans rarely adjust their portfolio allocations, suggesting that their investment choices and consequent money flows are sticky and not discerning. Yet, the participants' inertia could be offset by the DC plan sponsors, who adjust the plan's...
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A Theory of Liquidity and Regulation of Financial Intermediation
Farhi, Emmanuel; Golosov, Mikhail; Tsyvinski, Aleh - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper studies a mechanism design model of financial intermediation. There are two informational frictions: agents receive unobservable shocks and can participate in markets by engaging in trades unobservable to intermediaries. Without regulations, intermediaries provide no risk sharing...
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A Transparency Standard for Derivatives
Acharya, Viral V. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Derivatives exposures across large financial institutions often contribute to - if not necessarily create - systemic risk. Current reporting standards for derivatives exposures are nevertheless inadequate for assessing these systemic risk contributions. In this paper, I explain how a...
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Credit Default Swaps and the Credit Crisis
Stulz, René M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Many observers have argued that credit default swaps contributed significantly to the credit crisis. Of particular concern to these observers are that credit default swaps trade in the largely unregulated over-the-counter market as bilateral contracts involving counterparty risk and that they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008634652
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Self-Fulfilling Credit Market Freezes
Bebchuk, Lucian; Goldstein, Itay - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper develops a model of a self-fulfilling credit market freeze and uses it to study alternative governmental responses to such a crisis. We study an economy in which operating firms are interdependent, with their success depending on the ability of other operating firms to obtain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008635935
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Repairing a Mortgage Crisis: HOLC Lending and its Impact on Local Housing Markets
Courtemanche, Charles; Snowden, Kenneth A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
The Home Owners' Loan Corporation purchased more than a million delinquent mortgages from private lenders between 1933 and 1936 and refinanced the loans for the borrowers. Its primary goal was to break the cycle of foreclosure, forced property sales and decreases in home values that was...
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Markets and Housing Finance
Warnock, Veronica Cacdac; Warnock, Francis E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
We examine the extent to which markets enable the provision of housing finance across a wide range of countries. Housing is a major purchase requiring long-term financing, and the factors that are associated with well functioning housing finance systems are those that enable the provision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005064838