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shortage sell loans on the interbank market. Two equilibria emerge. In the no default equilibrium, all banks hold enough … reserves and remain solvent. In the mixed equilibrium, some banks default with positive probability. The former exists when …
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should be injected during a default episode or to evaluate the impact of raising capital before the occurrence of default …
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The severity and depth of the recent financial crisis hit many by surprise. Despite warning signs, the financial system seems to have been unable to aggregate existing information. As the events of Fall 2008 showed, many investors were caught off guard by the large number of banks collapsing...
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the default risk of banks designated as globally systemically important by the Financial Stability Board. We find that … bank market values hardly respond to changes in the default risk of individual systemic banks. Together, however, changes … in systemic banks’ default risk explain a substantial part of changes in other banks’ market values. This result is …
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This paper unveils a new resource for macroeconomic research: a long-run dataset covering disaggregated bank credit for 17 advanced economies since 1870. The new data show that the share of mortgages on banks’ balance sheets doubled in the course of the 20th century, driven by a sharp rise of...
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The current financial crisis has sparked intense debate about how weak banks should be resolved. Despite international efforts to coordinate and converge on such policies, national policy advice and resolution practices differ. The resolution methods adopted in the Nordic banking crises in the...
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We use an original monthly dataset of 131 individual euro area banks to examine the effectiveness and transmission mechanism of the Eurosystem's credit support policies since the start of the crisis. First, we show that these policies have indeed been succesful in stimulating the credit flow of...
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the default risk of banks designated as globally systemically important by the Financial Stability Board. We find that … bank market values hardly respond to changes in the default risk of individual systemic banks. Together, however, changes … in systemic banks' default risk explain a substantial part of changes in other banks' market values. This result is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053062
The severity and depth of the recent financial crisis hit many by surprise. Despite warning signs, the financial system seems to have been unable to aggregate existing information. As the events of Fall 2008 showed, many investors were caught off guard by the large number of banks collapsing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030321
We test whether adverse changes to banks' market valuations during the financial and sovereign debt crises, and the associated increase in banks' cost of funding, affected firms' real decisions. Using new data linking over 3,000 non-financial Italian firms to their bank(s), we find that...
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