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We develop a model of bank risk-taking with strategic sovereign default risk. Domestic banks invest in real projects and purchase government bonds. While an increase in bond purchases crowds out profitable investments, it improves the government's incentives to repay and therefore lowers its...
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The global financial crisis has brought to an end a rather unprecedented period of banks’ international expansion. We … analyze the effects of the crisis on international banking. Using a detailed dataset on the international assets of all German … banks with foreign affiliates for the years 2002-2011, we study bank internationalization before and during the crisis. Our …
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financial crisis. Yet, we know little about the actual magnitudes and mechanisms for transmission of liquidity shocks through …
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The development of macroprudential policy tools has been one of the most significant changes in banking regulation in recent years. In this multi-study initiative of the International Banking Research Network (IBRN), researchers from 15 central banks and 2 international organizations use...
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countries with high domestic crisis risk enable contagion to the home economy. This asset-side channel opposes traditional views …
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When is it optimal for a government to default on its legal repayment obligations? We answer this question for a small open economy with domestic production risk in which contracting frictions make it optimal for the government to finance itself by issuing non-contingent debt. We show that...
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This paper explores how selective default expectations affect the pricing of sovereign bonds in a historical laboratory: the German default of the 1930s. We analyze yield differentials between identical government bonds traded across various creditor countries before and after bond market...
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statistics alongside stylized facts during the European sovereign debt crisis. …
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the European sovereign debt crisis of 2008-2013. Banks used the sovereign CDS market to extend, rather than hedge, their … aggressively at the onset of the crisis, but started covering their positions at its height while simultaneously shifting their …
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European sovereign debt crisis. Overall, this enabled banks with affiliated mutual funds to sell off larger amounts of their …
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