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What do we know about the global financial safety net? : a new comprehensive data set
Scheubel, Beatrice; Stracca, Livio - 2016
This paper critically reviews the theoretical basis for the provision of the global financial safety net (GFSN) and provide a comprehensive database covering four elements of the GFSN (foreign exchange reserves, IMF financing, central bank swap lines and regional financing arrangements) for over...
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Global and regional financial integration in emerging Asia : evidence from stock markets
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; You, Kefei - 2017
This paper employs a price-based measure of integration, namely stock return differentials between ten emerging Asian economies and the US (as an indicator of global integration), as well as Japan and the Asian region (as two alternative indicators of regional integration), to test for mean...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654611
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The long-term effects of capital requirements
De Nicolò, Gianni; Klimenko, Nataliya; Pfeil, Sebastian; … - 2021
We build a stylized dynamic general equilibrium model with financial frictions to analyze costs and benefits of capital requirements in the short-term and long-term. We show that since increasing capital requirements limits the aggregate loan supply, the equilibrium loan rate spread increases,...
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Risk taking, limited liability and the competition of bank regulators
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2001
Limited liability and asymmetric information between an investment bank and its lenders provide an incentive for a bank to undercapitalise and finance overly risky business projects. To counter this market failure, national governments have imposed solvency constraints on banks. However, these...
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Banking regulation and sovereign default risk : how regulation undermines rules
Hülsewig, Oliver; Steinbach, Armin - 2024
Banking regulation invites banks to gamble when buying government bonds that regulators consider to be risk-free. The adverse effects on financial stability are known. In turn, this study shows that governments have an incentive to use banking regulation in order to enhance their fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576947
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Financial contagion : evolutionary optimisation of a multinational agent-based model
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria (contributor);  … - 2008
world. Unstable cross-market linkages during a crisis are referred to as financial contagion. We simulate crisis … to destabilise cross-market linkages. In the real world, such information would be extremely valuable in developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779466
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Unbalanced financial globalization
Capelle, Damien; Pellegrino, Bruno - 2023
We examine the impact of the last five decades of financial globalization on world GDP and income distribution, using a … pattern Unbalanced Financial Globalization. We then simulate a counterfactual trajectory of the world economy where the RKO … wedges are fixed at their pre-globalization levels. We find that unbalanced financial globalization led to a worsening of …
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Shareholder liability and bank failure
Aldunate, Felipe; Jenter, Dirk; Korteweg, Arthur; … - 2021
Does enhanced shareholder liability reduce bank failure? We compare the performance of around 4,200 state-regulated banks of similar size in neighboring U.S. states with different liability regimes during the Great Depression. The distress rate of limited liability banks was 29% higher than that...
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Financial stability in Europe : banking and sovereign risk
Brůha, Jan; Kočenda, Evžen - 2017
We analyze the link between banking sector quality and sovereign risk in the whole European Union over 1999–2014. We employ four different indicators of sovereign risk (including market- and opinion-based assessments), a rich set of theoretically and empirically motivated banking sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646829
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Bank regulation and sovereign risk : a paradox
Afonso, António; Teixeira, André - 2023
This paper investigates the impact of banking prudential regulation on sovereign risk. We show that prudential regulation reduces sovereign risk and induces governments to spend more. As a result, countries with tight prudential regulation have lower primary budget balances and accumulate more...
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