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Housing market developments are in the spotlight in Europe. Over-stretched valuations amid tightening financial conditions and a cost-of-living crisis have increased risks of a sustained downturn and exposed challenging trade-offs for macroprudential policy between ensuring financial system...
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We explore empirically how the time-varying allocation of credit across firms with heterogeneous credit quality matters for financial stability outcomes. Using firm-level data for 55 countries over 1991-2016, we show that the riskiness of credit allocation, captured by Greenwood and Hanson...
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to previous episodes of financial distress, foreign banks appear to have played a shock-transmitting role, as there was a … sharp slowdown in lending by foreign banks’ affiliates relative to domestic banks. However, given the uniqueness of the … COVID-19 shock and the impact of lockdowns on economic activity, foreign banks were found to lend at a higher rate than …
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Globally, financial institutions have increased their holdings of domestic sovereign debt, tightening the linkage between the health of the financial system and the level of sovereign debt, or the “financial sector-sovereign nexus,” during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In South Africa, the...
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European housing markets are at a turning point as the cost-of-living crisis has eroded real incomes and the surge in interest rates has made borrowers more vulnerable to financial distress. This paper aims to (i) shed light on the risks in European housing markets, (ii) quantify household...
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Banks' living wills involve both recovery and resolution. Since it may not always be clear when recovery plans or … be constructed meeting criteria of (i) adequate loss absorption; (ii) distinguishing between weak and sound banks; (iii …
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also the cyclical impact of global liquidity, with sensitivities of flows to banks decreasing with stronger macroeconomic …This paper provides a definition of global liquidity consistent with its meaning as the “ease of financing” in … Area – are also important, sometimes even more so, consistent with the dominant role of European banks in cross …
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We formulate the “High Liquidity Creation Hypothesis” (HLCH) that a proliferation in the core activity of bank … liquidity creation increases failure probability. We test the HLCH in the context of Russian banking, which provides a natural … field experiment due to numerous failures experienced over the past decade. Using Berger and Bouwman's (2009) liquidity …
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A mechanism is proposed that aims to reduce the risk of a banking sector liquidity crisis — which is a quintessentially … instrument would give banks more incentive to build up buffers of systemically liquid assets as a proportion of their total …
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We look at the effect of capital rules on a banking system that is connected through correlated credit exposures and interbank lending. The rules, which combine individual bank characteristics and interconnectivity measures of interbank lending, are to minimize a measure of system-wide losses....
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