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The promise of contingent convertible capital securities (CoCos) as a 'bail-in' solution has been the subject of considerable theoretical analysis and debate, but little is known about their effects in practice. In this paper, we undertake the first comprehensive empirical analysis of bank CoCo...
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in the banking sector, dividend payouts can shift the relative value of stakeholders' claims across firms. Through this … dividends and inefficient recapitalization relative to the efficient policy that maximizes banking sector equity. We compare the …
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set of hypotheses from both the corporate finance and banking literature on the drivers of bond issuance. We use both …
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policy response. Using the BIS international banking statistics, we reconstruct the worldwide consolidated balance sheets of … the major national banking systems. This allows us to investigate the structure of banks' global operations across their … misleading guide to where the vulnerabilities faced by that country's national banking system (or residents) lie. It then focuses …
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novel data set covering 135 banks from 15 European banking systems over the period 2000-16. The main finding is that bad …
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This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the macroeconomic implications of financial imperfections. It focuses on two major channels through which financial imperfections can affect macroeconomic outcomes. The first channel, which operates through the demand side of finance...
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This paper surveys the literature on the linkages between asset prices and macroeconomic outcomes. It focuses on three major questions. First, what are the basic theoretical linkages between asset prices and macroeconomic outcomes? Second, what is the empirical evidence supporting these...
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Do macroprudential regulations on residential lending influence commercial lending behavior too? To answer this question, we identify the compositional changes in banks' supply of credit using the variation in their holdings of residential mortgages on which extra capital requirements were...
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The global financial crisis led to discussion of corrective bank taxes to promote financial stability. This paper interprets the widening of the FDIC assessment base from deposits to assets less equity for US-chartered banks in April 2011 as such a corrective or Pigovian tax. In terms of yields,...
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Every financial crisis brings in its wake demands for more information; the latest one is no exception. Because, in deceptively tranquil times, it is well-nigh impossible to foster the consensus necessary to improve data availability, such a window of opportunity must not be missed. To be sure,...
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