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During the Global Financial Crisis, regulators imposed short-selling bans to protect financial institutions. The rationale behind the bans was that "bear raids", driven by short-sellers, would increase the individual and systemic risk of financial institutions, especially for institutions with...
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We propose to pool alternative systemic risk rankings for financial institutions using the method of principal components. The resulting overall ranking is less affected by estimation uncertainty and model risk. We apply our methodology to disentangle the common signal and the idiosyncratic...
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Diamond-Dybvig model cast in a global games framework, we show that while the CoCo conversion of the issuing bank may bring … the bank back into compliance with capital requirements, it will nevertheless raise the probability of the bank being run …
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. At the transition point there is a jumpin risk taking, as private banks do not internalize the social costs of bank … data complementing existing evidence that financial instability is highest when bank control is capturedby small lobbies. …
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We analyse the poisonous interaction between bank rescues, financial fragility and sovereign debt discounts. In our … sovereign debt discount. We introduce long term government debt, which gives rise to the possibility of capital losses on bank … intermediaries causes bond prices to drop triggering capital losses at the bank under intervention. This mechanism shows the limits …
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conversion on the risk-taking behaviour of the issuing bank. We also test for regulatory arbitrage: do banks try to maintain risk …
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This paper revisits the credit spread puzzle in bank CDS spreads from the perspective of information contagion. The … models to account for information spillovers based on bank business model similarities. To capture this channel, we propose … Eurozone. Incorporating the network information into the structural model for bank credit spreads increases explanatory power …
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We investigate the information content of stock correlation based network measures for systemic risk rankings, such as SIFIRank (based on Google's PageRank). Using European banking data, we first show that SIFIRank is empirically equivalent to a ranking based on average pairwise stock...
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We propose a credit portfolio approach for evaluating systemic risk and attributing it across institutions. We construct a model that can be estimated from high-frequency CDS data. This captures risks from publicly traded banks, privately held institutions, and coöperative banks, extending...
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We propose a credit portfolio approach for evaluating systemic risk and attributing it across institutions. We construct a model that can be estimated from high-frequency CDS data. This captures risks from privately held institutions and cooperative banks, extending approaches that rely on...
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