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We analyse the relationship between tail risk and crisis measures by governments and the central bank. Using an … the central bank and the governments is less binding if the risk of contagion is high. The strategic interaction between …
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We examine which variables are robust in explaining cross-country differences in the real impact of systemic banking crises. Based on a meta-analysis, we identify 21 variables frequently used as determinants of the severity of crises. Employing nine proxies for crisis severity, we find that...
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This paper tests for the transmission of the 2007-2010 financial and sovereign debt crises to fifteen EMU countries. We use daily data from 2003 to 2010 on country financial and non-financial stock market indexes. First, we find strong evidence of crisis transmission to European non-financials...
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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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This study presents a core-periphery model to determine the optimal size of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), building on Jeanne and Ranciere (2011). While the periphery is subject to a probability of losing access to external credit, the core's incentive for setting up an ESM stems...
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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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stock returns, the changes in systematic risk and idiosyncratic return induced by the financial crisis. The results show … that leverage has a significantly positive effect on systematic risk changes during the financial crisis. After accounting … for the change in systematic risk, the crisis induced idiosyncratic return is significantly related to industry leverage …
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beyond their own risk appetite. Liquidity and capital regulation also seem to incentivize banks to substitute other bonds …
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This paper studies confidence and trust in the Netherlands, especially with regard to the financial sector. Confidence and trust are qualitative, emotion-based variables which seems to be a powerful force in the economy. The aim of this paper is to gain a better understanding of the relationship...
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The purpose of this paper is to assess the history of global liquidity regulation until the revised Basel III proposals in 2013 and to analyze the interaction of capital regulation and banks' liquidity buffers. Our analysis suggests that regulating capital is associated with declining liquidity...
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