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The crisis in Europe has underscored the vulnerability of European bank funding models compared to international peers …. This paper studies the drivers behind this fragility and examines the future of bank funding, primarily wholesale, in … possible policy options and bank actions to enhance European bank funding models' robustness …
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Corporate debt in emerging markets has risen significantly in recent years amid accommodative global financial conditions. This paper studies the relationship of leverage growth in emerging market (EM) firms to U.S. monetary conditions, and more broadly, to global financial conditions. We find...
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In this paper, we investigate how negative interest rate policy (NIRP) introduced in January2016 by the Bank of Japan …
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-run growth. The paper explores an additional challenge, for monetary policy. Although they expand bank balance sheets, providing …
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financial accelerator, where bank balance sheets do not play a prominent role, and GIMF with both a financial accelerator and a …
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The recent financial crisis highlighted the role of Bank Holding Companies (BHCs) in exacerbating the crisis and in … monetary policy and market innovations on bank behavior in the presence of Basel III type regulations. To our knowledge, this … trading business, and show that regulations that target bank governance can mitigate possible rogue trading and the over …
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This paper asks whether the BoJ's recent experience with unconventional monetary easing has been effective in supporting economic activity and inflation. Using a structural VAR model, the paper finds some evidence that BoJ's monetary policy measures during 1998-2010 have had an impact on...
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We reconsider the design of welfare-optimal monetary policy when financing frictions impair the supply of bank credit …
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This paper studies the evolution of non-financial corporate debt among publicly listed companies in major advanced economies between 2010 and 2017. Since 2010, firms have started to rely more on corporate bond markets and have used part of their debt to increase their holdings of cash. In our...
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This paper investigates the role of tax incentives towards debt finance in the buildup of leverage in the nonfinancial corporate (NFC) sector, using a large firm-level dataset. We find that so-called debt bias is a significant driver of leverage, for both small and medium-sized enterprises and...
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