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. By looking at 5,500 issues over the period 2005-2012, we find that in recent years the sovereign debt market turbulence … premium due to the negative spillovers from the sovereign debt crisis, while German firms got a discount of 40 basis points. …
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-specific effects which are a suitable indicator of the market fragmentation. We find that, after peaking during the sovereign debt …
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We investigate the determinants of firms' implicit insurance to employees, using a difference-indifference approach: we rely on differences between family and non-family firms to identify the supply of insurance, and exploit variation in unemployment insurance across and within countries to...
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We propose the realized systemic risk beta as a measure for financial companies' contribution to systemic risk given network interdependence between firms' tail risk exposures. Conditional on statistically pre-identified network spillover effects and market as well as balance sheet information,...
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the European sovereign debt crisis and how it is reflected in network statistics and systemic risk measures. Illustrating …
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This paper investigates what we can learn from the financial crisis about the link between accounting and financial stability. The picture that emerges ten years after the crisis is substantially different from the picture that dominated the accounting debate during and shortly after the crisis....
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An important question in banking is how strict supervision affects bank lending and in turn local business activity. Forcing banks to recognize losses could choke off lending and amplify local economic woes, especially after financial crises. But stricter supervision could also lead to changes...
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among those which were most exposed to the sovereign debt crisis. This effect exists on top of the standard relation between …
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We study to what extent firms spread out their debt maturity dates across time, which we call "granularity of corporate … debt." We consider the role of debt granularity using a simple model in which a firm's inability to roll over expiring debt … single large one, firms may diversify debt rollovers across maturity dates. We construct granularity measures using data on …
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Some of the most widely expressed myths about the German financial system are concerned with the close ties and intensive interaction between banks and firms, often described as Hausbank relationships. Links between banks and firms include direct shareholdings, board representation, and proxy...
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