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How Do Financial Crises Redistribute Risk?
Mitchener, Kris; Vossmeyer, Angela - 2023
We examine how financial crises redistribute risk, employing novel empirical methods and micro data from the largest 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...
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Systemic Risk and the Great Depression
Das, Sanjiv R. - 2019
U.S. banking crisis of the 20th century. Our systemic risk measure captures both the credit risk of an individual bank … commercial banking system (i.e., the network’s topology) created more inherent fragility, but systemic risk was nevertheless … banking crisis that occurred between 1930{33 raised systemic risk per bank by 33% and increased the riskiness of the very …
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Leaning Against the Wind and Crisis Risk
Schularick, Moritz - 2020
Can central banks defuse rising stability risks in financial booms by leaning against the wind with higher interest rates? This paper studies the state-dependent effects of monetary policy on financial stability. Based on the near-universe of advanced economy financial cycles since the 19th...
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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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Regulatory and Bailout Decisions in a Banking Union
Haufler, Andreas - 2021
We model a banking union of two countries whose banking sectors differ in their average probability of failure and … banking sectors are highly profitable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013236197
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Tracing the Genesis of Contagion in the Oil-Finance Nexus
R. Mahadeo, Scott M. - 2019
A new procedure to trace the sources of contagion in the oil-finance nexus is proposed. We do this by consolidating veteran rules derived from the empirical oil literature to filter oil supply, global demand, and oil demand shocks into discrete typical and extreme conditions. We show how these...
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Fiscal-Financial Vulnerabilities
Schuknecht, Ludger - 2019
The paper analyses the linkages from financial developments to public finances. It maps and discusses the transmission channels to fiscal variables. These channels include asset prices, financing conditions, balance sheets of banks, non-banks and central banks and international linkages. The...
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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Unemployed Youths—Beware of Spillovers
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...
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Foreign Takeovers and Wage Dispersion in Hungary
Csengödi, Sandor; Urban, Dieter M. - 2021
This study tests FDI technology spillover models with the assumption that learning takes time against wage bargaining models by estimating the wage-premium of a foreign takeover. The technology spillover theory predicts a larger wage growth in firms taken over by foreign investors than in local...
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Intra- and Inter-Industry Productivity Spillovers in OECD Manufacturing : A Spatial Econometric Perspective
Badinger, Harald; Egger, Peter - 2021
We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R&D spillovers as well as remainder,...
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