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Banks play a critical role in international trade by providing trade finance products that reduce the risk of exporting. This paper employs two new data sets to shed light on the magnitude and structure of this business, which, as we show, is highly concentrated in a few large banks. The two...
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This paper analyzes the effect of the removal of government guarantees on bank risk taking. We exploit the removal of …
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Bank distress can have severe negative consequences for the stability of the financial system, the real economy, and … public finances. Regimes for restructuring and restoring banks financed by bank levies and fiscal backstops seek to reduce … these costs. Bank levies attempt to internalize systemic risk and increase the costs of leverage. This paper evaluates the …
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This paper uses data from a panel of more than 400 Italian banks for the period 2001-2012 to examine the main determinants of loan loss provision (LLP), which are classified as either discretionary (income smoothing, capital management, signalling) or non-discretionary (related to the business...
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We study the efficiency of banking regulation under financial integration. Banks freely choose the jurisdiction where …
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This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank … guarantees in a monetary union. I assume that banks can use sovereign bonds for repurchase agreements with a common central bank … cheaply, effectively shifting the risk of some of the potential sovereign default losses on the common central bank …
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competition and stability in banking. There are two basic channels through which competition may increase instability: by …
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bank losses are partly collectivized in a banking union …
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coordinated ones when governments care equally about bank profits, taxpayers, and consumers …
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This paper considers the optimal taxation of savings intermediation and payment services in a dynamic general equilibrium setting, when the government can also use consumption and income taxes. When payment services are used in strict proportion to final consumption, and the cost of...
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