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, in the context of the eurozone periphery, the increase in domestic government bond holdings, the reduction of bank credit …
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large U.S. banks assign to syndicated loans for regulatory capital purposes. Using internal bank data on loans that had PDs … and LGDs assigned by more than one bank, we find substantial dispersion in these parameters. Banks differ substantially in … PDs, but only a few set PDs systematically higher or lower than the median bank. However, many banks differ from the …
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In this paper, we exploit a natural experiment in which thrifts in several states witnessed an exogenous reduction in supervisory attention to assess the effect of supervision on financial institutions' willingness to take risk. We show that the affected institutions took on much more risk than...
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in bank capital requirements. Intuitively, higher capital requirements raise banks’ skin in the game and screening out …
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Our paper studies the role of the collateral channel for bank credit using confidential bank-firm-loan data. We … higher growth in bank lending with higher sensitivities for more credit constrained firms. Higher real estate values boost …
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We provide new evidence that credit supply shifts contributed to the U.S. subprime mortgage boom and bust. We collect original data on both government and private mortgage insurance premiums from 1999-2016, and document that prior to 2008, premiums did not vary across loans with widely different...
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The Lehman Brothers' 2008 bankruptcy spread losses to its counterparties even when Lehman was a lender of cash, because collateral for that lending was tied up in the bankruptcy process. I study the implications of such lender default using a general equilibrium network model featuring...
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We construct a novel U.S. data set that matches bank holding company credit default swap (CDS) positions to detailed U …
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We find that that the Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) standard would slightly dampen fluctuations in bank lending … capital distributions. We consider a variety of approaches to address uncertainty regarding the management of bank capital and …
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Under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) banks can fulfill their affirmative obligation to meet local credit needs by lending in low-to-moderate-income (LMI) communities or by purchasing loans made by others. This paper evaluates whether giving CRA credit for purchases has had its intended...
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