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This paper explores the effect of oil price fluctuations on the stock returns of U.S. oil firms using a strategy of identification through heteroskedasticity exploiting the 2020 oil crash. Results are twofold. First, we find that a decline in oil prices statistically significantly reduces stock...
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emphasizes the need for harmonizing bank regulation and supervision. We study the impact of cross-border lending in a theoretical …, differences in bank regulations may have speeded up the cross-border lending. …
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Banks have always played an ambivalent role in financial markets. On the one hand, they provide essential services for the market; on the other hand, problems in the banking sector can send shock waves through the entire economy. Given this prominent role, it is not surprising that Pereira and...
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We propose a dynamic bank theory with a delayed loss recognition mechanism and a regulatory capital constraint at its … core. The estimated model matches four facts about banks’ Tobin’s Q that summarize bank leverage dynamics. (1) Book and … market equity values diverge, especially during crises; (2) Tobin’s Q predicts future bank profitability; (3) neither book …
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bank and a crowdlending platform and show that the entry of crowdlending can induce a switching effect as well as a credit …
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We show that U.S. dollar movements affect syndicated loan terms for U.S. borrowers, even for those without trade exposure. We identify the effect of dollar movements using spread and loan amount adjustments during the syndication process. Using this high-frequency, within loan variation, we find...
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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 impact of financial sector size and leverage on the business cycle and risk-free rates dynamics. We develop a general equilibrium model of a productive economy where financial intermediaries provide costly risk mitigation to households by pooling the idiosyncratic risks of...
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, small, and innovative firms) have a multitude of bank lenders, where one may be special in the sense of relationship lending …. However, theory does not tell us a lot about the economic rationale for relationship lending in the context of multiple bank … financing. To fill this gap, we analyze the optimal debt structure in a model that allows for multiple but asymmetric bank …
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I review the state of the art of the academic theoretical and empirical literature on the potential trade-off between competition and stability in banking. There are two basic channels through which competition may increase instability: by exacerbating the coordination problem of...
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