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In global financial centers, short-term market rates are effectively determined in the pledged collateral market, where … banks and other financial institutions exchange collateral (such as bonds and equities) for money. Furthermore, the use of … long-dated securities as collateral for short tenors-or example, in securities-lending and repo markets, and prime …
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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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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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This paper highlights the changing collateral landscape and how it may shape the global demand/supply for collateral …. We first identify the key collateral pools (relative to the "old" collateral space) and associated collateral velocities … banks are significantly altering the collateral space. Moreover, regulatory demands stemming from Basel III, Dodd Frank …
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Financial lubrication in markets is indifferent to margin posting via money or collateral; the relative price(s) of … money and collateral matter. Some central banks are now a major player in the collateral markets. Analogous to a coiled … spring, the larger the quantitative easing(QE) efforts, the longer the central banks will impact the collateral market and …
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borrowing. The subsequent crisis has reduced the pool of assets considered acceptable as collateral, resulting in a liquidity … of excess bank reserves and do more than merely substitute central bank money for collateral that currently remains …
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letters of credit, which during the capital controls period had to be backed by firms’ own cash collateral rather than the …
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In distilling a vast literature spanning the rational — irrational divide, this paper offers reflections on why asset bubbles continue to threaten economic stability despite financial markets becoming more informationally-efficient, more complete, and more heavily influenced by sophisticated...
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In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, the issue of how best to identify speculative asset bubbles (in real-time) remains in flux. This owes to the difficulty of disentangling irrational investor exuberance from the rational response to lower risk based on price behavior alone. In...
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global perspective. At the same time, collateral requirements applied by banks are onerous and also constrain the quantity of … the high collateral requirements. Reforms in all these areas would support greater financial inclusion in the aftermath of …
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