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U.S. banking crisis of the 20th century. Our systemic risk measure captures both the credit risk of an individual bank … as well as a bank's position in the network. We construct linkages between all U.S. commercial banks in 1929 and 1934 so … banking crisis that occurred between 1930-33 raised systemic risk per bank by 33% and increased the riskiness of the very …
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banks are admired by those whoadvocate bank deregulation in the United States. Others admire the universalbanks for their …
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Financial crises have been a common feature of the economic landscape for more than two centuries. The chapter defines banking crises, considers the type of costs that they impose, and outlines the most common causes of banking crises during the past 200 years. The remainder of the chapter...
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inflation on the equilibrium deposit and the bank's portfolio. …
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the public, long-term systemic risk among banks tends to increase. From the dynamic perspective, bank penalties represent … long-term. In this respect, bank penalties resemble still waters that run deep. In contrast, a settlement with regulatory …
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This study is an empirical investigation of theoretical predictions concerning the impact of bank competition on bank … banking increases, the loan-to-asset ratio will rise (under reasonable assumptions), but the probability of bank failure can … either increase or decrease. However, the probability of bank failure will fall if and only if borrowers' response to take on …
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We document that trust in public institutions - and particularly trust in banks, business and government - has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear...
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incentives to implement such a trigger? We construct a theoretical model of a bank that is financed with debt and equity, and a … bank manager monitoring the bank’s loan portfolio. The manager must be incentivized to warn the board before a crisis …
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use the model to look at monetary policy and show that allowing banks to sell long-term assets to the central bank after a … ; bank portfolio …
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This paper documents that an appreciation of the U.S. dollar is associated with a reduction in the supply of commercial and industrial loans by U.S. banks. An increase in the broad dollar index by 2.5 points (one standard deviation) reduces U.S. banks' corporate loan originations by 10 percent....
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