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World Saving
Grigoli, Francesco - 2014
This paper presents new evidence on the behavior of saving in the world, by extending previous empirical research in five dimensions. First, it is based on a very large and recent database, covering 165 countries from 1981 to 2012. Second, it conducts a robustness analysis across different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012678775
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A new heuristic measure of fragility and tail risks : application to stress testing
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas; Canetti, Elie; Kinda, Tidiane; … - 2012
This paper presents a simple heuristic measure of tail risk, which is applied to individual bank stress tests and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621630
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Banking Crises and Crisis Dating
Loukoianova, Elena - 2009
information on government actions undertaken in response to bank distress. Weformulate a simple theoretical model of a banking … industry which we use to identify and constructtheory-based measures of systemic bank shocks (SBS). Using both country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677802
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French Banks Amid the Global Financial Crisis
Xiao, Yingbin - 2009
This paper runs the gamut of qualitative and quantitative analyses to examine the performance of French banks during 2006-2008 and the financial support measures taken by the French government. French banks were not immune but proved relatively resilient to the global financial crisis reflecting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677872
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Post-Crisis Bank Behavior
Fund, International Monetary - 2010
Mercosur? The objective of this paper is to answer this question by analyzing changes in bank behavior after crises in the … literature-to post-crisis bank behavior. Using a panel dataset of commercial banks during the period 1990-2006, we analyze the … impact of crises on four sets of financial indicators of bank behavior-profitability, maturity preference …
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Equity Returns in the Banking Sector in the Wake of the Great Recession and the European Sovereign Debt Crisis
Fund, International Monetary - 2012
policymakers' efforts to strengthen bank capitalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677547
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Distress in European Banks
Poghosyan, Tigran - 2009
identified late, solutions are much more costly. Until recently, Europe has seen only a small number of outright bank failures …, which made the estimation of early warning models for bank supervision very difficult. This paper presents a unique database … of individual bank distress across the European Union from mid-1990s to 2008. Using this data set, we analyze the causes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677700
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Crisis Management and Resolution for a European Banking System
Giustiniani, Alessandro - 2010
This paper proposes an integrated crisis management and resolution framework for the EU's single banking market. It comprises a European Resolution Authority (ERA), armed with the mandate and the tools to deal cost-effectively with failing systemic cross-border banks, and is designed to address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409157
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Risk Exposures and Financial Spillovers in Tranquil and Crisis Times : Bank-Level Evidence
Poirson, Hélène - 2013
indices; second, which bank-specific characteristics explain these risk exposures; third, are there clusters of banks with … analysis of bank-to-bank linkages suggests that any 'globalization' of the euro area crisis is likely to be channelled through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409425
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Government Involvement in Corporate Debt Restructuring; Case Studies From the Great Recession
Grigorian, David A.; Raei, Faezeh - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
The paper examines recent episodes of government involvement in corporate debt restructurings. It argues that corporate debt restructuring is an important step toward recovery from a financial crisis. We then discuss the rationale for, and modalities of, the state intervention in corporate debt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727803