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the cross-section of banks; and, the negative German loading reflects funding risk (flight away from bank funding to … various proxies for bank short-term debt. Large banks and banks with low Tier 1 ratios and high risk-weighted assets had …” – greater exposure of domestic banks to its sovereign’s bonds – which is partly explained by the European Central Bank funding …
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investors to be less prone to run individual banks, but runs will be systemic. In addition, we show that bank runs are …
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Macroprudential stress tests have been employed by regulators in the United States and Europe to assess and address the solvency condition of financial firms in adverse macroeconomic scenarios. We provide a test of these stress tests by comparing their risk assessments and outcomes to those from...
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Macroprudential stress tests have been employed by regulators in the United States and Europe to assess and address the solvency condition of financial firms in adverse macroeconomic scenarios. We provide a test of these stress tests by comparing their risk assessments and outcomes to those from...
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paper introduces a measure of the threat that a bank poses to the system. Such a measure, called threat index, may be … individual institutions to the risk in the system. Although the threat index and the default level of a bank both reflect some …
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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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mechanisms for shadow banking that have been documented in the literature. I then illustrate the role of shadow bank policies …
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One of the several regulatory failures behind the global financial crisis that started in 2007 has been the regulatory focus on individual, rather than systemic, risk of financial institutions. Focusing on systemically important assets and liabilities (SIALs) rather than individual financial...
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How much of carry trade excess returns can be explained by the presence of disaster risk? To answer this question, we propose a simple structural model that includes both Gaussian and disaster risk premia and can be estimated even in samples that do not contain disasters. The model points to a...
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We analyze the effect that real-time domestic and foreign news about fundamentals have on the correlation of stock returns of a small open economy, Portugal, and a large open economy, the U.S. We also study the role of public and private information in the price formation process in the U.S. and...
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