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How does asset encumbrance affect the fragility of intermediaries subject to rollover risk? We offer a model in which a bank issues covered bonds backed by a pool of assets that is bankruptcy remote and replenished following losses. Encumbering assets allows a bank to raise cheap secured debt...
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their demand for collateral assets, and the short-term scarcity of collateral securities leads to higher prices, the Fire … Buy premium. To avoid collateral scarcity, central banks increase the set of eligible collateral assets. However, if the … investigate how unlimited liquidity provision affects collateral prices. Also, I match banks' trades with their balance sheet and …
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study the intended and unintended consequences of asset purchases in the repo market with Bund collateral. Bunds that are …
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tend not to face higher interest rates because they provide collateral. This paper illustrates these effects in a model and …
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Mutual fund risk-taking via active portfolio rebalancing varies both in the cross-section and over time. In this paper, I show that the same is true for funds' off- balance sheet risk-taking, even after controlling for on-balance sheet activities. For this purpose, I propose a novel measure of...
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Many assets derive their value not only from future cash flows but also from their ability to serve as collateral. In … this paper, we investigate this collateral value and its impact on asset returns in an infinite-horizon general equilibrium … model with heterogeneous agents facing collateral constraints for borrowing. We document that borrowing against collateral …
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Correlated defaults and systemic risk are clearly priced in credit portfolio securities such as CDOs or index CDSs. In this paper we study an extensive CDX data set for evidence whether correlated defaults are also present in the underlying CDS market. We develop a cash flow based top-down...
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their collateral supply is determined by their ex ante securities holdings and repo rates. Second, it makes use of the …
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In this paper we set up a New-Keynesian model with a heterogenous banking sector to analyze liquidity problems on the interbank market. The presence of an interbank market is essential to consider a situation where an increased liquidity supply by the central bank is only partially passed on to...
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We utilize the Eurosystem securities lending facilities as a laboratory to investigate the impact of collateral … overall activity in the repo market expands through the collateral multiplier. The improved pricing conditions alleviate … collateral scarcity and enhance market quality in both the repo and cash markets. …
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