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experience of the United States during the Great Depression, a period of intense bank distress, to conduct our analysis. We … availability as indicated by the survey. A number of scholars have posited different ways that bank distress constrained credit …. In this study, we find that bank failures had the most dominant impact, but there is also some evidence for the …
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the change in eligibility criteria for collateral in central bank refinancing operations. Our results show that market … observe a broad-based flight to liquidity. The European Central Bank's unconventional monetary policy had a strong impact on …
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Over the past two decades, Germany experienced several periods of banking system instability rather than full-blown banking system crises. In this paper we introduce a continuous and forward-looking stability indicator for the banking system based on information on all financial institutions in...
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that failed during the 2007/2008 crisis. Excess equity returns in response to bank bailouts are overall negative and …
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), our approach estimates bank asset holdings at higher frequencies which allows us to derive precise estimates of (i …
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In this paper, we exploit a natural experiment in which thrifts in several states witnessed an exogenous reduction in supervisory attention to assess the effect of supervision on financial institutions' willingness to take risk. We show that the affected institutions took on much more risk than...
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, in the context of the eurozone periphery, the increase in domestic government bond holdings, the reduction of bank credit …
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This paper studies how building and loan associations (B&Ls) slowly unwound their obligations following a set of financial shocks during the Great Depression, with a special focus on a group of particularly troubled B&Ls in Newark, NJ. Investors in B&Ls disagreed over whether to realize losses...
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the proprietary bank-to-bank European interbank dataset extracted from Target2 and also exploit the Lehman and sovereign …
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sovereign debt exposures and the implications of sovereign exposures for bank risk. Our main findings are as follows. First … impact of sovereign bond holdings on bank risk. This result could indicate the widespread absence of marking-to-market for …
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