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The paper examines the basic rationale and features of the proposals adopted to separate specific investment and commercial banking activities (Volcker rule, Vickers and Liikanen proposals). In particular, it focuses on the likely implications of such initiatives for: (i) financial stability and...
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very easy financing conditions for banks. Bank credit expanded. Banks have accumulated a large stock of government bonds …
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We study the impact of bank credit supply on firm output and productivity. By exploiting a matched firm-bank database …
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Banks that enjoyed generous external financial support tended to under-price risk in theinternational syndicated loan market and did not show signs of innovation in their loanparticipations. Loans arranged by such banks had on average lower spreads (controlling forrisk and other characteristics)...
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to idiosyncratic factors. In particular, the bank-specific credit growth rates - usually thought of as a measure of …
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for banking when comparing cross-border positions with domestic credit, using the most extensive dataset on global bank …
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This paper argues that the decline in cross-border banking since 2007 does not amount to a broad-based retreat in international lending ("financial deglobalisation"). We show that BIS international banking data organised by the nationality of ownership ("consolidated view") provide a clearer...
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A model of imperfectly competitive banks is examined under asymmetric information about borrower quality. Greater bank … empirical results on the relationship between bank competition and financial stability. The model can be used to define a …
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How susceptible to contagion are bank deposits associated with financial inclusion? To shed light on this question, we … analyze the behavior of deposits of different account sizes around three significant bank closures in the Philippines. When we … large deposits at the town level, we find no evidence that the closure of a large bank leads to withdrawals by depositors at …
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Bank capital ratios have increased steadily since the financial crisis. For a sample of 94 large banks from advanced …
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