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Insurers monitor shocks to collateral : micro evidence from mortgage-backed securities
Fetzer, Thiemo; Guin, Benjamin; Netto, Felipe; Saidi, Farzad - 2024
. Our results indicate that institutional investors actively monitor underlying asset risk, and even gain an informational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015061135
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Strategic complementarity, fragility, and regulation
Vives, Xavier - 2011 - Rev. May 2011
liquidity risk and characterizes them. Both a solvency (leverage) and a liquidity ratio are required to control the … interpret the 2007 run on SIV and ABCP conduits. -- stress ; crises ; illiquidity risk ; insolvency risk ; leverage ratio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230899
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Investors' trading behaviour and stock market volatility during crisis periods : a dual long-memory model for the Korean stock exchange
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Karanasos, Menelaos; Yfanti, … - 2019
This study examines the impact of investors' buy and sell trades on Korean stock market volatility across two crisis events, the Asian crisis of 1997 and the 2008 global financial crash. We investigate the trading behaviour of domestic vs. foreign and institutional vs. individual investors. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138660
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Uncertainty shocks and financial crisis indicators
Hristov, Nikolay; Roth, Markus - 2019
The current paper broadens the understanding of the role played by uncertainty in the context of macroeconomic fluctuations. It focuses on the implications of uncertainty shocks for indicators that tend to precede financial crises. In an empirical analysis we show for a set of four euro area...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103607
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014490902
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Subprime crisis and board (in-)competence : private vs. public banks in Germany
Hau, Harald; Thum, Marcel - 2009
We examine evidence for a systematic underperformance of Germany's state-owned banks in the current financial crisis and study if the bank losses can be traced to the quality of bank governance. For this purpose, we examine the biographical background of 593 supervisory board members in the 29...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850179
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A critique of the literature on the US financial debt crisis
Stein, Jerome L. - 2010
A healthy financial system encourages the efficient allocation of capital and risk. The collapse of the house price … stochastic optimal control (SOC)/dynamic risk management is a much more effective approach to determine the optimal degree of … leverage, the optimum and excessive risk and the probability of a debt crisis. The theoretically founded early warning signals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936616
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Supply restrictions, subprime lending and regional US house prices
Anundsen, André Kallåk; Heebøll, Christian - 2015
With regard to the recent US house price cycle, we analyze how the interaction between housing supply restrictions, mortgage credit constraints and a price-to-price feedback loop affects house price volatility. Considering 247 Metropolitan Statistical Areas, we estimate a simultaneous boom-bust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488113
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Mortgage-related bank penalties and systemic risk among U.S. banks
Brož, Václav; Kočenda, Evžen - 2021
We analyze link between mortgage-related regulatory penalties levied on banks and the level of systemic risk in the U ….S. banking industry. We employ a frequency decomposition of volatility spillovers (connectedness) to assess system-wide risk … the public, long-term systemic risk among banks tends to increase. From the dynamic perspective, bank penalties represent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012697108
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Climate risk and commodity currencies
Kapfhammer, Felix; Larsen, Vegard Høghaug; Thorsrud, … - 2020
proposing a novel news media-based measure of climate change transition risk and show that when such risk is high, major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391358