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This paper explores the extent to which interest risk exposure is priced in bank margins. Our contribution to the … literature is twofold: First, we present an extended model of Ho and Saunders (1981) that explicitly captures interest rate risk … and returns from maturity transformation. Banks price interest risk according to their individual exposure separately in …
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In this paper we relate a bank’s choice between retail and wholesale liabilities to real economic uncertainty and the resulting volatility of bank loan volumes. We argue that since the volume of retail deposits is slow and costly to adjust to shocks in the volume of bank assets, banks facing...
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We use a randomised controlled trial (RCT) to analyse the impact of microcredit on poverty reduction in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The study population are loan appli-cants that would normally have just been rejected based on regular screening. We find that access to credit allowed borrowers to...
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Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this strategic shift is not substantiated by sufficient empirical evidence on the impact of both types of lending on borrowers. We present such evidence from a randomised field...
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Based on a non-linear equilibrium model of the banking sector with an occasionally binding equity issuance constraint … large: up to 10% more loans for a capital requirement release of 1pp. Compared to existing DSGE models with a banking sector …
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We estimate a dynamic structural banking model to examine the interaction between risk-weighted capital adequacy and … regulatory minima. Tighter risk-weighted capital requirements reduce loan supply and lead to an endogenous fall in bank …
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portfolio, one for market risk and one for credit risk. Similar approaches are common in banks’ internal models for economic … capital. Although it is known that joint market and credit risk of certain investments can be larger than the sum of risks … holdings or CDS portfolios – are also affected. There are realistic conditions under which credit risk (represented by ratings …
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Recent literature has proposed new methods for measuring the systemic risk of financial institutions based on observed … stock returns. In this paper we examine the reliability and robustness of such risk measures, focusing on CoVaR, marginal … expected shortfall, and option-based tail risk estimates. We show that CoVaR exhibits undesired characteristics in the way it …
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shocks affecting banks’ capital, liquidity and credit quality as well as revised banklevel risk perceptions. Relationship … banking is not capable of containing these frictions, as hard information seems to dominate soft information. In detail, we …
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international banks, including the reasons for heterogeneity in transmission across banks. The International Banking Research … studies conducted in 11 countries to explore liquidity risk transmission. Among the main results is, first, that explanatory … power of the empirical model is higher for domestic lending than for international lending. Second, how liquidity risk …
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