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The effects of regional banks on economic resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic and the global financial crisis a cross-country comparison of the European countries
Flögel, Franz; Hejnová, Tereza - 2021
An economy's ability to resist adverse shocks, such as an economic recession or natural disaster, is associated with its financial system structure due to different countercyclical funding capabilities. This paper uses a novel database of bank headquarter locations in a cross-country comparison...
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The financial market effects of the ECB's asset purchase programs
Lewis, Vivien; Roth, Markus - 2017
The European Central Bank's asset purchase programs, while intended to stabilize the economy, may have unintended side effects on financial stability. This paper aims at gauging the effects on financial markets, the banking sector, and lending to non-financial firms. Using a structural vector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011712553
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The Brexit vote, productivity growth and macroeconomic adjustments in the United Kingdom
Broadbent, Ben; Di Pace, Federico; Drechsel, Thomas; … - 2019
conceptualised as news about a future slowdown in productivity growth in the tradable sector. Simulations show that the responses of …' for tradable producers before the slowdown in tradable sector productivity associated with Brexit occurs. Resources are … the productivity decline in the tradable sector materialises. The negative news about tradable sector productivity also …
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Pandemic effects : do innovation activities of firms suffer from long-Covid?
Trunschke, Markus; Peters, Bettina; Czarnitzki, Dirk; … - 2023 - This version: 2.6.2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected firms in many economies. Exploiting treatment heterogeneity, we use a difference-in-differences design to causally identify the short-run impact of COVID-19 on innovation spending in 2020 and expected innovation spending in subsequent years. Based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311916
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The impact of the EU General Data Protection Regulation on innovation in firms
Blind, Knut; Niebel, Crispin Miles; Rammer, Christian - 2022
In May 2018, a new regulation by the European Commission on data protection came into force, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It requires many firms to update their data protection strategy. It may also complicate different types of data usage, particularly related to data on...
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The credit quality channel : modeling contagion in the interbank market
Fink, Kilian; Krüger, Ulrich; Meller, Barbara; Wong, … - 2015
We propose an algorithm to model contagion in the interbank market via what we term the credit quality channel. In existing models on contagion via interbank credit, external shocks to banks often spread to other banks only in case of a default. In contrast, shocks are transmitted via asset...
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Macroprudential policy and the sovereign-bank nexus in the euro area
Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Kolb, Benedikt - 2021
We explore how changes in capital-based macroprudential regulation affect theexposure of national banking sectors to domestic government debt in the euro area,thus strengthening or weakening the sovereign-bank nexus. To do so, we construct ameasure of macroprudential policy based on...
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Negative monetary policy rates and systemic banks' risk-taking : evidence from the euro area securities register
Bubeck, Johannes; Maddaloni, Angela; Peydró, José-Luis - 2020
We show that negative monetary policy rates induce systemic banks to reach-for-yield. For identification, we exploit the introduction of negative deposit rates by the European Central Bank in June 2014 and a novel securities register for the 26 largest euro area banking groups. Banks with more...
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Unconventional monetary policy shocks in the euro area and the sovereign-bank nexus
Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Scharler, Johann - 2020
enlarged their exposure to domestic sovereign debt after innovations related to unconventional monetary policy. Moreover, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012197879
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COVID-19 and the fragmentation of the European interbank market
Pala, Melissa - 2024
This paper provides evidence of a highly fragmented European interbank market that is tightened during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the interbank market was under stress. Using a unique dataset of unsecured, overnight interbank loans at the transactional level allows me to apply advanced panel...
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