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This paper models a financial sector in which there is a feedback between individual bank risk and aggregate funding … market problems. Greater individual risk taking worsens adverse selection problems on the market. But adverse selection … premia on that market push up bank risk taking, leading to multiple equilibria. The model identifies shifts among equilibria …
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When does the general public lose trust in banks? We provide empirical evidence using responses by Dutch survey participants to eight hypothetical scenarios. We find that members of the general public care strongly about executive compensation. Negative media reports, falling stock prices, and...
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systemic risk in the financial system. …
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We study the international transmission of shocks from the banking to the real sector during the global financial crisis. For identification, we use matched bank-firm level data, including many small and medium-sized firms, in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. We find that...
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We analyse three databases of banking crises and investigate their consistency in the identification and timing of crises. We find that there are large and statistically significant discrepancies between the three datasets. We also compare the dating of banking crises according to these...
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Do tightenings of bank lending standards permanently reduce bank lending? We construct a measure of a bank's level of lending standards using micro-data from the sample of banks participating in the Eurosystem Bank Lending Survey in The Netherlands and show that this level measure affects...
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This paper shows how large data sets can be visualized in a dynamic way to support exploratory research, highlight econometric results or provide early warning information. The case studies included in this paper case are based on the payments and unsecured money market transaction data of the...
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brief is crucial as bank risk responds primarily to rates that are kept "too low for too long". Within this shorter time …
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to the stance of the macro-economy. Regulatory liquidity requirements can reduce all forms of risk-taking examined. …, lending standards deteriorate. This risk-taking intensifies when the term spread is steeper, and is thus procyclically related …
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This paper shows that a rate hike has countervailing effects on banks' risk appetite. It reduces risk when the debt … burden of the banking sector is modest. We model a regulator whose trade-off between bank risk and credit supply is derived … policy. In a dynamic setting, not internalizing bank risk leads a monetary authority to keep rates low for too long after a …
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