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LIBOR: Origins, economics, crisis, scandal, and reform
Hou, David; Skeie, David - 2014
The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is a widely used indicator of funding conditions in the interbank market. As of 2013, LIBOR underpins more than $300 trillion of financial contracts, including swaps and futures, in addition to trillions more in variable-rate mortgage and student loans....
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Federal reserve tools for managing rates and reserves
Martin, Antoine; McAndrews, James; Palida, Ali; Skeie, David - 2013
Monetary policy measures taken by the Federal Reserve as a response to the 2007-09 financial crisis and subsequent economic conditions led to a large increase in the level of outstanding reserves. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) has a range of tools to control short-term market rates in...
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The return to retail and the performance of US banks
Hirtle, Beverly J.; Stiroh, Kevin J. - 2005
The U.S. banking industry is experiencing a renewed focus on retail banking, a trend often attributed to the stability … find that an increased focus on retail banking across U.S. banks is linked to significantly lower equity market and … accounting returns for all banks but lower volatility for only the largest banking companies. We conclude that retail banking may …
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The impact of network size on bank branch performance
Hirtle, Beverly J. - 2005
Despite recent innovations that might have reduced banks' reliance on brick-and-mortar branches for distributing retail financial services, the number of U.S. bank branches has continued to increase steadily over time. Further, an increasing percentage of these branches are held by banks with...
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Valuing the Treasury's Capital Assistance Program
Glasserman, Paul; Wang, Zhenyu - 2009
The Capital Assistance Program (CAP) was created by the U.S. government in February 2009 to provide backup capital to large financial institutions unable to raise sufficient capital from private investors. Under the terms of the CAP, a participating bank receives contingent capital by issuing...
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Design of contingent capital with a stock price trigger for mandatory conversion
Sundaresan, Suresh; Wang, Zhenyu - 2010
The proposal for banks to issue contingent capital that must convert into common equity when the banks' stock price falls below a specified threshold, or 'trigger,' does not in general lead to a unique equilibrium in equity and contingent capital prices. Multiple or no equilibrium arises because...
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Credit Growth and the Effectiveness of Reserve Requirements and Other Macroprudential Instruments in Latin America
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
Over the past decade policy makers in Latin America have adopted a number of macroprudential instruments to manage the procyclicality of bank credit dynamics to the private sector and contain systemic risk. Reserve requirements, in particular, have been actively employed. Despite their...
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Real Estate Market Developments and Financal Sector Soundness
Hilbers, Paul Louis Ceriel; Zacho, Lisbeth; Lei, Qin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
This paper analyses the characteristics and functioning of real estate markets. It focuses on the relationship between developments in these markets and the financial sector to determine under what circumstances real estate booms and busts can develop and how they can affect the health and...
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Introduction to Applied Stress Testing
Cihák, Martin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
Stress testing is a useful and increasingly popular, yet sometimes misunderstood, method of analyzing the resilience of financial systems to adverse events. This paper aims to help demystify stress tests, and illustrate their strengths and weaknesses. Using an Excel-based exercise with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248151
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Cost and Effectiveness of Banking Sector Restructuring in Transition Economies
Zoli, Edda - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
-98. It argues that country-specific banking sector features, the size of bad loans inherited from the centrally planned … costs and overall improvement in banking sector performance for the sample countries as a whole. …
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