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explore this question using data from an unexpected disclosure of partial lists of banks that secretly borrowed from the … banks included on the lists in comparison with banks left off the lists. However, stigma dissipated for banks that were … revealed earlier after subsequent banks were revealed. Overall, the results suggest that an emergency lending facility that …
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higher incidence of failure as well as more costly failures. None of these patterns are present in commercial banks subject …
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and run risk. Banks choose between liquid and illiquid assets on the asset side, and between deposits and equity on the …
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We empirically document that banks with greater exposure to high home price-to-income ratio regions in 2005 and 2006 …-to-income ratios present a greater likelihood of house price correction, we find no evidence that banks managed this risk by building …
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We empirically document that banks with greater exposure to high home price-to-income or price-to-rent ratio regions … that banks managed this risk by building stronger capital buffers. The bank level mortgage risk measures we develop could …
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Did government mortgage programs mitigate the adverse economic effects of the financial crisis? We find that counties with greater participation in traditional government mortgage programs experienced less severe economic downturns during the Great Recession. In particular, counties with higher...
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We study how competition between banks and non-banks affects lending standards. Banks have private information about … some borrowers and are subject to capital requirements to mitigate risk-taking incentives from deposit insurance. Non-banks … in bank capital requirements. Intuitively, higher capital requirements raise banks’ skin in the game and screening out …
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We study the performance and behavior of Value at Risk (VaR) measures used by a number of large banks during and before … the banks' trading revenues and help to explain the bank VaR performance results. While highly conservative in the pre … exceedance clustering. Variance decompositions indicate a limited ability of the banks' VaR methodologies to adjust to the crisis …
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We conduct an empirical analysis of the Federal Reserve's large-scale asset purchases (LSAPs) on MBS yields and mortgage rates. The Federal Reserve's accumulation of MBS and Treasury securities lowered MBS yields and mortgage rates by more than what would have been suggested by changes in market...
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Insurance companies often follow highly correlated investment strategies. As major investors in corporate bonds, their investment commonalities subject investors to fire-sale risk when regulatory restrictions prompt widespread divestment of a bond following a rating downgrade. Reflective of...
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