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Macroprudential stress tests have been employed by regulators in the United States and Europe to assess and address the solvency condition of financial firms in adverse macroeconomic scenarios. We provide a test of these stress tests by comparing their risk assessments and outcomes to those from...
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We analyze the determinants and the long-run consequences of government interventions in the eurozone banking sector …, eventually, greater reliance on liquidity support from the European Central Bank …
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This paper studies a model in which a low monetary policy rate lowers the cost of capital for entrepreneurs, potentially spurring productive investment. Low interest rates, however, also induce entrepreneurs to lever up so as to increase payouts to equity. Whereas such leveraged payouts...
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We show theoretically and empirically that in the presence of a time-varying cost of capital (COC), firms have a hedging motive to reduce the overall COC over time by saving cash when COC is relatively low. The sensitivity of cash savings to COC is especially pronounced with respect to the cost...
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We investigate the transmission of central bank liquidity to bank deposits and loan spreads in Europe over the period … from January 2006 to June 2010. We find evidence consistent with an impaired transmission channel due to bank risk. Central … bank liquidity does not translate into lower loan spreads for high-risk banks for maturities beyond one year, even as it …
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We show that Eurozone bank risks during 2007-2012 can be understood as a "carry trade" behavior. Bank equity returns … exploit government guarantees, arbitrage regulatory risk weights, and access central-bank funding, we find that this carry …-GIPSI countries' banks, but not so for similar banks in other Western economies or for non-bank firms …
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-way feedback between financial and sovereign credit risk using data on the credit default swaps (CDS) of the Eurozone countries for … widening of sovereign CDS spreads and narrowing of bank CDS spreads; however, post-bailouts there emerged a significant co …-movement between bank CDS and sovereign CDS, even after controlling for banks' equity performance, the latter being consistent with an …
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We study the exposure of the US corporate bond returns to liquidity shocks of stocks and Treasury bonds over the period 1973 - 2007 in a regime - switching model. In one regime, liquidity shocks have mostly insignificant effects on bond prices, whereas in another regime, a rise in illiquidity...
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This paper examines the relationship between innovation and firms' dependence on external capital by analyzing the innovation activities of privately-held and publicly-traded firms. We find that public firms in external finance dependent industries generate patents of higher quantity, quality,...
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This paper surveys the theory on zombie lending incentives and the consequences of zombie lending for the real economy. It also offers a historical perspective by reviewing the growing empirical evidence on zombie lending along three dimensions: (i) the role of under-capitalized banks, (ii)...
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