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When banks choose similar investment strategies, the financial system becomes vulnerable to common shocks. Banks decide about their investment strategy ex-ante based on a private belief about the state of the world and a social belief formed from observing the actions of peers. When the social...
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This study investigates if the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) distorted price competition in U.S. banking. Political indicators reveal bailout expectations after 2009, manifested as beliefs about the predicted probability of receiving equity support relative to failing during the TARP...
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This paper studies a banking model of maturity transformation in which regulatory arbitrage induces the coexistence of regulated commercial banks and unregulated shadow banks. We derive three main results: First, the relative size of the shadow banking sector determines the stability of the...
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This paper analyses the potential roles of bank asset fire sales and recourse to central bank credit to ensure banks …' funding liquidity and solvency. Both asset liquidity and central bank haircuts are modelled as power functions within the unit … interval. Funding stability is captured as strategic bank run game in pure strategies between depositors. Asset liquidity, the …
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consequences of the liquidity stress to the solvency ratio; (ii) quantify the liquidity deficit that a central bank should …
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We study the functioning and possible breakdown of the interbank market in the presence of counterparty risk. We allow banks to have private information about the risk of their assets. We show how banks' asset risk affects funding liquidity in the interbank market. Several interbank market...
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conditions, a panic-based depositor-run at one bank may trigger a panic-based depositor-run at another bank. We find that … withdrawals at one bank trigger withdrawals at another bank by increasing players' beliefs that other depositors in their own bank …' beliefs, and are thus contagious, only when depositors know that there are economic linkages between their bank and the …
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We develop a dynamic general equilibrium model for the positive and normative analysis of macroprudential policies. Optimizing financial intermediaries allocate their scarce net worth together with funds raised from saving households across two lending activities, mortgage and corporate lending....
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We offer a theory of financial contagion based on the information choice of investors after observing a financial … evidence about contagious currency crises and bank runs after wake-up calls and provide some guidance for future empirical work …
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investigate a specific type of externality that originates from those borrowers that obtain liquidity from more than one bank. In … this case, contagion may occur if a bank hit by a liquidity shock calls in some loans and borrowers then pay them back by …
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