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The Euro Crisis and Economic Growth : A Novel Counterfactual Approach
Terzi, Alessio - 2019
Macroeconomic adjustment in the euro area periphery was more recessionary than pre-crisis imbalances would have warranted. To make this claim, this paper uses a Propensity Score Matching Model to produce counterfactuals for the Eurozone crisis countries (Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Cyprus, Spain)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866042
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The Countercyclical Capital Buffer and the Composition of Bank Lending
Auer, Raphael - 2019
Do macroprudential regulations on residential lending influence commercial lending behavior too? To answer this question, we identify the compositional changes in banks' supply of credit using the variation in their holdings of residential mortgages on which extra capital requirements were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861456
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How Do Financial Crises Redistribute Risk?
Mitchener, Kris James; Vossmeyer, Angela - 2023
financial crisis of the 20th century – the Great Depression. Using balance-sheet and systemic risk measures at the bank level …, we build an econometric model with incidental truncation that jointly considers bank survival, the type of bank closure … (consolidations, absorption, and failures), and changes to bank risk. Despite roughly 9,000 bank closures, risk did not leave the …
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Is economic recovery a myth? Robust estimation of impulse responses
Teulings, Coen N.; Zubanov, Nick - 2010
There is a lively debate on the persistence of the current banking crisis' impact on GDP. Impulse Response Functions (IRF) estimated by Cerra and Saxena (2008) suggest that the effects of earlier crises were long-lasting. We show that standard estimates of IRFs are highly sensitive to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276868
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Banking crises and crisis dating: Theory and evidence
Boyd, John H.; De Nicolò, Gianni; Loukoianova, Elena - 2010
-based measures of systemic bank shocks (SBS). These measures differ from 'banking crisis' (BC) indicators employed in many empirical … studies, which are constructed using primarily information on government actions undertaken in response to bank distress … that BC indicators actually measure lagged policy responses to systemic bank shocks. We then re-examine the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272761
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Speculative attacks: a laboratory study in continuous time
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Friedman, Daniel - 2008
We examine speculative attacks in a controlled laboratory environment featuring continuous time, size asymmetries, and varying amounts of public information. Attacks succeeded in 233 of 344 possible cases. When speculators have symmetric size and access to information: (a) weaker fundamentals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264454
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Cyber Attacks, Spillovers and Contagion in the Cryptocurrency Markets
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2020
This paper examines mean and volatility spillovers between three major cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum) and the role played by cyber attacks. Specifically, trivariate GARCH-BEKK models are estimated which include suitably defined dummies corresponding to different types, targets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832186
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Banking and debt crisis in Europe: The dangerous liaisons?
Candelon, Bertrand; Palm, Franz - 2010
The potential mutation of the Sub-Prime banking crisis into a sovereign debt one in Euro area countries is investigated. After reviewing the criteria used to measure the debt vulnerability, the balance sheet approach (BSA) is presented in order to illustrate the potential connections between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270470
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Trade and Credit Reallocation : How Banks Help Shape Comparative Advantage
Keuschnigg, Christian - 2019
capital standards, and cost of bank equity determine credit reallocation, sectoral expansion and trade patterns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892187
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Modigliani Meets Minsky : Inequality, Debt, and Financial Fragility in America, 1950-2016
Bartscher, Alina K. - 2020
This paper studies the secular increase in U.S. household debt and its relation to growing income inequality and financial fragility. We exploit a new household-level dataset that covers the joint distributions of debt, income, and wealth in the United States over the past seven decades. The...
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