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Competition for internal funds within multinational banks : foreign affiliate lending in the crisis
Kerl, Cornelia; Frey, Rainer - 2012
We investigate how the lending activities of a multinational bank’s affiliates located abroad are affected by funding difficulties in view of the financial crisis. For this, we consider transaction-induced changes in long-term lending to the private sector of 40 countries by the affiliates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009625687
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A network analysis of the evolution of the German interbank market
Roukny, Tarik; Georg, Co-Pierre; Battiston, Stefano - 2014
-the-counter markets for liquidity in Germany: the interbank market for credit and for derivatives. We use end-of-quarter data from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010405454
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Is local bias a cross-border phenomenon? : evidence from individual investors’ international asset allocation
Baltzer, Markus; Stolper, Oscar; Walter, Andreas - 2013
Extant literature consistently documents that investors tilt their domestic equity portfolios towards regionally close stocks (local bias). We hypothesize that individual investors’ local bias is not limited to the domestic sphere but instead also determines their international investment...
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Evaluation of minimum capital requirements for bank loans to SMEs
Düllmann, Klaus; Koziol, Philipp - 2013
particularly rich and well developed credit market for SMEs in Germany. We estimate asset correlations as the key measure of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009751062
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The price impact of CDS trading
Gündüz, Yalın; Nasev, Julia; Gehde-Trapp, Monika - 2013
In this paper we show that informational and real frictions in CDS markets strongly affect CDS premia. We derive this main finding using a proprietary set of individual CDS transactions cleared by the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation. We first show that CDS traders adjust the CDS premium...
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Market transparency and the marking precision of bond mutual fund managers
Cici, Gjergji; Gibson, Scott; Gündüz, Yalın; … - 2014
We analyze the dispersion of month-end price marks simultaneously placed on identical corporate bonds by different US mutual fund managers before and after initiations of TRACE and introductions of issuers into Markit’s CDS database. Disseminated bonds show large and statistically significant...
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Banks' concentration versus diversification in the loan portfolio : new evidence from Germany
Jahn, Nadya; Memmel, Christoph; Pfingsten, Andreas - 2013
Using a unique data set on German banks' sector specific loan exposures to the real economy and the corresponding write-offs and write-downs, we examine the impact of loan portfolio sector concentration on credit risk. By controlling for common risk factors, we separate the bank-specific...
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Personal bankruptcy law, debt portfolios, and entrepreneurship
Mankart, Jochen; Rodano, Giacomo - 2015
Every year 400,000 entrepreneurs fail and 60,000 file for personal bankruptcy. The option to declare bankruptcy provides entrepreneurs with insurance against the financial consequences of business failures. However, it comes at the cost of worsened credit market conditions. In this paper, we...
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CDS spreads and systemic risk : a spatial econometric approach
Keiler, Sebastian; Eder, Armin - 2013
This study applies a novel way of measuring, quantifying and modelling the systemic risk within the financial system. The magnitude of risk spill over effects is gauged by introducing a specific weighting scheme. This approach originally stems from spatial econometrics. The methodology allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009695965
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Investor fears and risk premia for rare events
Schwarz, Claudia - 2014 - This version: January 13, 2014
from options data. In a second step, jump tail distributions are approximated using the extreme value theory. Applying the … investor fear index for the US and Germany, I find that the correlation of the fear index for the US with the VIX is 89.5% and … that of the fear index for Germany with the VDAX is 90.6%. …
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