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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 …
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We explore the impact of mortgage securitization on the international diversification of macroeconomic risk. By making … risk sharing: we find that countries with the most highly developed markets for securitized mortgage debt have consumption … risk sharing in tranquil times but that it actually fails to provide international insurance in severe crisis periods …
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This paper analyzes the effect of the removal of government guarantees on bank risk taking. We exploit the removal of …
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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...
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This paper uses data from a panel of more than 400 Italian banks for the period 2001 - 2012 to examine the main determinants of loan loss provision (LLP), which are classified as either discretionary (income smoothing, capital management, signalling) or non-discretionary (related to the business...
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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 …
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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 … is associated with increased sovereign risk. The sector's depth provides mixed results. The stability (capital adequacy …
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Do macroprudential regulations on residential lending influence commercial lending behavior too? To answer this question, we identify the compositional changes in banks' supply of credit using the variation in their holdings of residential mortgages on which extra capital requirements were...
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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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. Our results indicate that institutional investors actively monitor underlying asset risk, and even gain an informational …
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