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'By a silken thread' : regional banking integration and pathways to financial development in Japan's Great Recession

Hoffmann, Mathias; Okubo, Toshihiro - 2013

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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Small firms and domestic bank dependence in Europe's Great Recession

Hoffmann, Mathias; Maslov, Egor; Sørensen, Bent E. - 2019

Small businesses (SMEs) depend on banks for credit. We show that the severity of the Eurozone crisis was worse in countries where firms borrowed more from domestic banks ("domestic bank dependence") than in countries where firms borrowed more from international banks. Eurozone banking...

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Growing like Germany : local public debt, local banks, low private investment

Hoffmann, Mathias; Stewen, Iryna; Stiefel, Michael - 2021

municipalities crowds out private investment. Our results show how crowding out can happen in a developed economy characterized by … market power to charge higher rates on their SME customers. This crowded out firm investment. Perversely, fiscal … which increasingly borrowed from local public banks. Crowding out lowered aggregate private investment by around 30-40 bio …

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Systematic consumption risk in currency returns

Hoffmann, Mathias; Suter, Rahel - 2013

We sort currencies by countries' consumption growth over the past four quarters. Currency portfolios of countries experiencing consumption booms have higher Sharpe ratios than those of countries going through a consumption-based recession. A carry strategy that goes short in countries that are...

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Proprietary income, entrepreneurial risk, and the predictability of US stock returns

Hoffmann, Mathias (contributor) - 2006

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