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-border credit supply, consistent with its meaning as the “ease of financing” in international financial markets. We find that global …
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The recent crisis has shown that banks in distress can often expect to benefit from (implicit) government guarantees. This paper analyzes a panel of 781 banks from 90 countries to test whether the expectation of individual and systemic government support induces moral hazard. It shows that banks...
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We propose a new theory of systemic risk based on Knightian uncertainty (or "ambiguity"). We show that, due to uncertainty aversion, beliefs on future asset returns are endogenous, and bad news on one asset class induces investors to be more pessimistic about other asset classes as well. This...
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new lines of credit and display lower credit scores than individuals who file for bankruptcy. Since bankruptcy filings …
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We present a network model of the interbank market in which optimizing risk averse banks lend to each other and invest in non-liquid assets. Market clearing takes place through a tâtonnement process which yields the equilibrium price, while traded quantities are determined by means of a...
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We analyze securities trading by banks and the associated spillovers to the supply of credit. Empirical analysis has … investments of banks at the security level for 2005-2012 in conjunction with the credit register from Germany. Analyzing data at … their overall supply of credit in crisis times – i.e., for the same borrower at the same time, trading-expertise banks …
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sovereign debt crisis. Moreover, the interbank market – unlike other credit markets – allows to exploit the price dispersion … from different lenders on identical credit contracts, i.e. overnight uncollateralized loans in the same morning for the …
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This paper presents new models for aggregate UK data on mortgage possessions (foreclosures) and mortgage arrears (payment delinquencies). The innovations include the treatment of difficult to observe variations in loan quality and shifts in forbearance policy by lenders, by common latent...
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This paper reports estimates of the long-run costs and benefits of banks funding more of their assets with loss-absorbing capital, or equity. Measuring those costs requires careful consideration of a wide range of issues about how shifts in funding affect required rates of return and on how...
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The paper analyzes a very stylized model of crises and demonstrates how the degree of strategic complementarity in the actions of investors is an important determinant of fragility. It is shown how the balance sheet composition of a financial intermediary, parameters of the information structure...
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