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Global banking, trade, and the international transmission of the great recession
Born, Alexandra; Enders, Zeno - 2018
large parts of the world. In this paper we explore the financial and the trade channel in a unified framework and quantify …, resulting in larger cumulated output losses and a prolonged crisis particularly in the UK. Stricter enforcement of bank capital … requirements would have deepened the initial slump while simultaneously speeding up the recovery. The effects of higher capital …
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International Financial Crises
Dornbusch, Rudiger; Fischer, Stanley - 2003
Our friend and colleague Rüdiger Dornbusch passed away before he was able tocomplete his book based on the Munich Lectures in Economics that he gave inNovember 17, 1998, at the Center for Economic Studies of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität.The lectures contain a fascinating overview of the...
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Regulation, financial crises, and liberalization traps
Marchionne, Francesco; Pisicoli, Beniamino; Fratianni, … - 2019
regulation on the probability of a crisis. We test this relationship by applying a Probit model of a non-linear specification to …: it rises as regulation stringency moves from low to medium levels and falls from medium to high levels. Countries located …
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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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Financial reform and banking crises
Shehzad, Choudhry Tanveer - 2009
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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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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Rating assignments : lessons from international banks
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Matousek, Roman; Stewart, Chris - 2009
This paper estimates ordered logit and probit regression models for bank ratings which also include a country index to capture country-specific variation. The empirical findings provide support to the hypothesis that the individual international bank ratings assigned by Fitch Ratings are...
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Banking supervision in integrated financial markets : implications for the EU
Stolz, Stéphanie Marie - 2002
I analyze the optimal design of banking supervision in the presence of cross-border lending. Cross-border lending could imply that an individual bank failure in one country could trigger negative spillover effects in another country. Such cross-border contagion effects could turn out to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514035
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Cross-border banking in regulated markets : is financial integration desirable?
Haufler, Andreas; Wooton, Ian - 2016
lending allocated between domestic and foreign firms, but the bank's overall loan volume is fixed by a capital requirement set …
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Freeze! : financial sanctions and bank responses
Efing, Matthias; Goldbach, Stefan; Nitsch, Volker - 2018
We study the effects of financial sanctions on cross-border credit supply. Using a differences-in-differences approach to analyze eleven sanctions episodes between 2002 and 2015, we find that banks located in Germany reduce their positions in countries with sanctioned entities by 38%. The...
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