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Macroprudential capital regulation and fiscal balances in the euro area
Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Kolb, Benedikt - 2024
in macroprudential capital regulation. Our findings suggest a dichotomy between country groups. In peripheral countries … core countries, the cyclically adjusted primary balance ratio barely reacts to a sudden tightening in capital regulation. …
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Financial integration and the co-movement of economic activity : evidence from U.S. states
Götz, Martin; Gozzi, Juan Carlos - 2021
We analyze the effect of the geographic expansion of banks across U.S. states on the co-movement of economic activity between states. Exploiting the removal of interstate banking restrictions to construct time-varying instrumental variables at the state-pair level, we find that bilateral banking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651086
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Mitigating counterparty risk
Gündüz, Yalın - 2018
This paper provides initial evidence on counterparty risk-mitigation activities of financial institutions on the basis of Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation's (DTCC) proprietary bilateral credit default swap transactions and positions. We show that financial institutions that are active...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011900709
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Multinational banks in regulated markets : is financial integration desirable?
Haufler, Andreas; Wooton, Ian - 2018
We set up a two-country, regional model of trade in financial services. Competitive firms in each country manufacture non-traded consumer goods in an uncertain productive environment, borrowing funds from a bank in either the home or the foreign market. Duopolistic banks can choose their levels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902728
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Taming overconfident CEOs through stricter financial regulation
Kassner, Bernhard - 2023
paper shows that financial regulation can be effective at mitigating this type of risk. Exploiting regulatory changes … financial institutions subject to stricter regulation. Following the easing of these regulations, overconfidence-induced risk …-taking increases again. These findings confirm the effectiveness of financial regulation at correcting overconfident behavior, but also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477386
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Regulatory competition in capital standards with selection effects among banks
Haufler, Andreas; Maier, Ulf - 2017
Several countries have recently introduced national capital standards exceeding the internationally coordinated Basel III rules, which is inconsistent with the 'race to the bottom' in capital standards found in the literature. We study regulatory competition when banks are heterogeneous and give...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591503
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A comprehensive view on risk reporting : evidence from supervisory data
Abbassi, Puriya; Schmidt, Michael - 2018
We show that banks' risk exposure in one asset category affects how they report regulatory risk weights for another asset category. Specifically, banks report lower credit risk weights for their loan portfolio when they face higher risk exposure in their trading book. This relationship is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011826077
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System-wide and banks' internal stress tests : regulatory requirements and literature review
Pliszka, Kamil - 2021
This paper deals with both system-wide and banks' internal stress tests. For system-wide stress tests it describes the evolution over time, compares the stress test design in major jurisdictions, and discusses academic research. System-wide stress tests have gained in importance and nowadays...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012534563
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Macro to the rescue? : an analysis of macroprudential instruments to regulate housing credit
Falter, Alexander - 2019
This paper builds a macro model with a financial sector and a housing market to understand the transmission and effects of macroprudential instruments addressing mortgage credit. The model compares the introduction of a loan-to-value ratio (LTV), a countercyclical capital buffer (CCyB)-style...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034723
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International trade integration : a disaggregated approach
Chen, Natalie (contributor); Novy, Dennis (contributor) - 2009
This paper investigates the sources and size of trade barriers at the industry level. We derive a micro-founded measure of industry-specific bilateral trade integration that has an in-built control for time-varying multilateral resistance. This trade integration measure is consistent with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003867934