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The notable increase in international reserve holdings over the past decade and their use during the global financial crisis of 2008/2009 has sparked renewed interest in the analysis of the optimal level of reserve holdings, in particular in countries which are subject to sudden stops. Less...
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decouple across secured and unsecured markets following an adverse shock to credit risk. The scarcity of underlying collateral …
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central bank collateral framework and regulation determine jointly the ability of the banking system to deliver maturity … bank collateral and why a sudden non-anticipated reduction of asset liquidity, or a tightening of the collateral framework …, can destabilize short term liabilities of banks. Finally, the model allows discussing how the collateral framework can be …
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This paper examines the role of collateral in the financial system, with special emphasis on the implications for … financial collateral assets. Then we examine financial stability issues and the case for regulating the use of collateral. We … use of collateral is neither a sufficient nor a necessary condition for financial stability. To ensure the stability of …
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the credit risk of their corporate loan portfolios when the latter are used as collateral in the Eurosystem’s monetary … actually used as Eurosystem collateral, particularly for large loans. The less conservative estimates of risk by IRBs relative … findings suggest the existence of a collateral-related channel through which the use of IRB ratings may influence the internal …
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The paper studies the central bank collateral framework and its impact on banks’ liquidity under an adverse stress test … significantly after the initial shock. We find evidence of a threshold in the benefits of expanding the collateral framework and … institutions can rely on the collateral framework channel …
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The empirical literature on systemic banking crises (SBCs) has shown that SBCs are rare events that break out in the midst of credit intensive booms and bring about particularly deep and long-lasting recessions. We attempt to explain these phenomena within a dynamic general equilibrium model...
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The sovereign debt crisis in the euro area has increased the interest in early warning indicators, with the aim to indicate the build up of fiscal stress early on and to facilitate crisis prevention by a timely counteraction of fiscal and macroeconomic policies. This paper presents possible...
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We document the twin crisis that affected Spain in the mid-1860s. First, we trace back its origins to the international crisis of 1864-66. Next, we describe the particular banking sector of Spain, characterized by the coexistence of the Bank of Spain with multiple local banks of issue. We...
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This paper uses data on bilateral foreign exposures of domestic banking systems in order to construct early warning models for financial crises that take into account cross-country spill-overs of vulnerabilities. The empirical results show that incorporating cross-country financial linkages can...
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