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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230899
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Financial Sector Regulation and Reforms in Emerging Markets : An Overview
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2010
as they attempt to reform their frameworks for financial regulation. These economies are striving to balance the quest … objectives can in fact reinforce one another. I also discuss aspects of macroeconomic policies and cross-border regulation that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137321
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Financial Crisis and the Paradox of Under- and Over-Regulation
Aizenman, Joshua - 2010
This paper illustrates the paradox of prudential under-regulation in an economy that adopts financial reform, a reform … probability of the crisis is updated sequentially applying Bayesian inference. Costly regulation can mitigate the probability of … the crisis. We identify conditions where the regulation level supported by the majority is positive after the reform, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152612
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012774887
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012260638
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134890
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The economics of insurance, its borders with finance and implications for systemic regulation
Thimann, Christian - 2015
regulation. …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125587
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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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