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Strategic complementarity, fragility, and regulation

Vives, Xavier - 2011 - Rev. May 2011

The paper analyzes a very stylized model of crises and demonstrates how the degree of strategic complementarity in the actions of investors is a critical determinant of fragility. It is shown how the balance sheet composition of a financial intermediary, parameters of the information structure...

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Ethical Foundations of Financial Regulation

Kane, Edward J. - 2008

Regulation consists of rulemaking and enforcement. Economic theory offers two complementary rationales for regulating … arise in multi- party relationships and that regulation introduces opportunities to impose rules that enhance the welfare of … discretion and choose actions for the common good. Agency-cost theories portray regulation as a way to raise the quality of …

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Climate actions and stranded assets : the role of financial regulation and monetary policy

Diluiso, Francesca; Annicchiarico, Barbara; Kalkuhl, … - 2020

materialize. Financial regulation encouraging the decarbonization of the banks' balance sheets via tax-subsidy schemes …

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Fire Sales in Finance and Macroeconomics

Shleifer, Andrei - 2010

Fire sales are forced sales of assets in which high-valuation bidders are sidelined, typically due to debt overhang problems afflicting many specialist bidders simultaneously. We overview theoretical and empirical research on asset fire sales, which shows how they can arise, how they can lead to...

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Taking stock of the financial sector policy response to COVID-19 around the world

Feyen, Erik; Gispert, Tatiana Alonso; Kliatskova, Tatsiana - 2020

This paper introduces a new global database and a policy classification framework that records the financial sector policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic across 154 jurisdictions. It documents that authorities around the world have taken a diverse array of measures to mitigate financial...

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Systemic risk in banking, fire sales, and macroeconomic disasters

Bougheas, Spiros P.; Harvey, David I.; Kirman, Alan P.; … - 2024

We develop a dynamic computational network model of the banking system where fire sales provide the amplification mechanism of financial shocks. Each period a finite number of banks offers a large, but finite, number of loans to households. Banks with excess liquidity also offer loans to other...

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Durable Financial Regulation : Monitoring Financial Instruments as a Counterpart to Regulating Financial Institutions

Nakamura, Leonard I. - 2011

This paper sets forth a discussion framework for the information requirements of systemic financial regulation. It …

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Financial Innovation and the Management and Regulation of Financial Institutions

Merton, Robert C. - 2014

New security designs, improvements in computer telecommunications technology and advances in the theory of finance have led to revolutionary changes in the structure of financial markets and institutions. This paper provides a functional perspective on the dynamics of institutional change and...

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Financial development, financial fragility, and growth

Loayza, Norman; Rancière, Romain - 2002

This paper attempts to reconcile the apparent contradiction between two strands of the literature on the effects of financial intermediation on economic activity. On the one hand, the empirical growth literature finds a positive effect of financial depth as measured by, for instance, private...

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Spillovers from systemic bank defaults

Mink, Mark; Haan, Jakob de - 2014

We examine to what extent banks' stock market values during the 2007-2012 financial crisis were driven by increases in 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...

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