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externalities between the two countries arise from cross-border bank ownership. The two countries face (i) a regulatory decision of … contrast, bailout policies are centralized only when international spillovers from cross-border bank ownership are strong, and …
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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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The emergence of so-called “decentralised finance” (DeFi) and a shadow financial system of cryptocurrency exchanges and stablecoin issuers raises the challenge of how to apply technology-neutral regulation so that similar risks are subject to the same rules. This paper makes the case for...
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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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This paper studies the role of a lender of last resort (LLR) in a monetary model where a shortage of bank’s monetary …
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U.S. banking crisis of the 20th century. Our systemic risk measure captures both the credit risk of an individual bank … as well as a bank’s position in the network. We construct linkages between all U.S. commercial banks in 1929 and 1934 so … 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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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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This paper investigates the impact of banking prudential regulation on sovereign risk. We show that prudential regulation reduces sovereign risk and induces governments to spend more. As a result, countries with tight prudential regulation have lower primary budget balances and accumulate more...
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We develop a simple model of banking regulation with two policy instruments: minimum capital requirements and supervision of domestic banks. The regulator faces a trade-off: high capital requirements cause a drop in the banks'; profitability, while strict supervision reduces the scope of...
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only applies to large players. Sectoral concentration, bank health and the share of foreign ownership yield more mixed …
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