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intervention have stronger effects beyond borders. We provide a model of international contagion allowing for bank bailouts. While …
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We examine the impact of various dimensions of financial reform on the likelihood of systemic and non-systemic banking crises. Using new financial reform measures for a large sample of developing and developed countries for the period 1973 to 2002, our multivariate probit modeling results...
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, we show that bailout plans with controlled interest rates can help in reducing debt-GDP ratios after some time. On the …
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the ability of the central bank to alleviate the fiscal burden by inuencing different terms in the government resource … seignorage is generated and subject to what constraints, (iii) whether central bank liabilities should count as public debt, (iv …) how central bank assets create income risk, and whether or not this threatens its solvency, and (v) how the central bank …
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Most theoretical central bank models use short horizons and focus on a single tradeoff. However, in reality central … bankruptcy. We term these factors discipline and stability effects, respectively. The central bank's welfare decreases with …
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developed considering this new paradigm and discuss how institutional features relating to bank closure policy influences lender …
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How do financial development and financial integration interact? We focus on Japan's Great Recession after 1990 to study this question. Regional differences in banking integration affected how the recession spread across the country: financing frictions for credit-dependent firms were more...
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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 study the efficiency of banking regulation under financial integration. Banks freely choose the jurisdiction where to locate their activities and have private information about their efficiency level. Regulators non-cooperatively offer any regulatory contract that satisfies information and...
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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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