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This paper examines the effects of taxation on the liability structure of banks. We derive testable predictions from a … financial crisis). We show that banks endogenously respond to a reduction in tax rates by reducing nondeposit liabilities more … bank: well-capitalized banks respond to a reduction in tax rates by increasing their assets, but poorly-capitalized banks …
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channel, one bank's capital policy affects the equity value and risk of default of other banks. In a model where such …
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strength and extraordinary sovereign support and provide an estimate of banks' creditworthiness. Thus, the impact of the …
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This paper proposes a model of how agents adjust their asset holdings in response to losses in general equilibrium. By emphasising the relation between deflation and financial distress, we capture some original features of the early debt-deflation literature, such as distress selling,...
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This paper discusses the economics of how Bitcoin achieves data immutability, and thus payment finality, via costly computations, ie "proof-of-work". Further, it explores what the future might hold for cryptocurrencies modelled on this type of consensus algorithm. The conclusions are, first,...
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The spread of distributed ledger technology (DLT) in finance could help to improve the efficiency and quality of supervision. This paper makes the case for embedded supervision, ie a regulatory framework that provides for compliance in tokenised markets to be automatically monitored by reading...
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present both in lending to banks and non-banks, and are strongest for lending flows to borrowers in advanced economies and to …
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-border bank lending outflows from UK banks. Vice-versa, easier macroprudential policy amplifies impacts. The results are …
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We investigate empirically how the balance sheet characteristics of central counterparties (CCPs) affect their modelling of credit risk. CCPs set initial margin (IM), i.e., the collateral for transactions, to limit counterparty credit risk. When a CCP's IM model fails on a large scale, the CCP...
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Since the mid-1990s, major Japanese banks have sold off a significant portion of their holdings of corporate equity …. Using information on the identity of Japanese firms' top 10 shareholders, this paper explores the process of banks' equity … disposal. There is some evidence that, after FY2001, banks' sales of equity accelerated, even holdings in firms for which the …
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