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The dynamics of non-performing loans during banking crises : a new database
Ari, Anil; Chen, Sophia; Ratnovski, Lev - 2019
This paper presents a new dataset on the dynamics of non-performing loans (NPLs) during 88 banking crises since 1990. The data show similarities across crises during NPL build-ups but less so during NPL resolutions. We find a close relationship between NPL problems-elevated and unresolved...
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Stress testing and calibration of macroprudential policy tools
Górnicka, Lucyna; Valderrama, Laura - 2020
conditions, and the regulatory environment. We use this model to simulate bank credit losses for stress-testing purposes and to … that can be made to capture country-specific institutional features. The model uses bank portfolio data broken down by risk …
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Credit cycle and capital buffers in Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic
Flamini, Valentina; Bologna, Pierluigi; Di Vittorio, Fabio - 2019
Credit is key to support healthy and sustainable economic growth but excess aggregate credit growth can signal the build-up of imbalances and lead to systemic financial crisis. Hence, monitoring the credit cycle is key to identifying vulnerabilities, particularly in emerging markets, which tend...
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Leakages from macroprudential regulations : the case of household-specific tools and corporate credit
Bhargava, Apoorv; Górnicka, Lucyna; Xie, Peichu - 2021
will be less important at this stage. Further evidence from bank lending standards surveys suggests that the leakage …
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Forbearance patterns in the post-crisis period
Bergant, Katharina; Kockerols, Thore - 2020
Using supervisory loan-level data on corporate loans, we show that banks facing high levels of non-performing loans relative to their capital and provisions were more likely to grant forbearance measures to the riskiest group of borrowers. More specifically, we find that risky borrowers are more...
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Accounting Discretion of Banks During a Financial Crisis
Laeven, Luc - 2009
This paper shows that banks use accounting discretion to overstate the value of distressed assets. Banks'' balance sheets overvalue real estate-related assets compared to the market value of these assets, especially during the U.S. mortgage crisis. Share prices of banks with large exposure to...
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From Basel I to Basel III : sequencing implementation in developing economies
Ferreira, Caio; Jenkinson, Nigel; Wilson, Christopher - 2019
Developing economies can strengthen their financial systems by implementing the main elements of global regulatory reform. But to build an effective prudential framework, they may need to adapt international standards taking into account the sophistication and size of their financial...
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Macroprudential stress tests : a reduced-form approach to quantifying systemic risk losses
Alla, Zineddine; Espinoza, Raphael A.; Li, Qiaoluan H.; … - 2018
We present a novel approach that incorporates individual entity stress testing and losses from systemic risk effects (SE losses) into macroprudential stress testing. SE losses are measured using a reduced-form model to value financial entity assets, conditional on macroeconomic stress and the...
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Tech in fin before FinTech : blessing or curse for financial stability?
Pierri, Nicola; Timmer, Yannick - 2020
adoption for financial stability. We estimate bank-level intensity of IT adoption before the global financial crisis using a … novel dataset that provides information on hardware used in US commercial bank branches after mapping them to their parent … bank. We find that higher intensity of IT-adoption led to significantly lower non-performing loans when the crisis hit …
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Can contingent convertibles help private asset managers fund their acquisition of nonperforming loans from Portuguese banks?
Santos, André Oliveira - 2019
This paper analyzes the capital structure of private asset managers in which the acquisition of nonperforming loans (NPLs) is funded with Contingent Convertibles (CoCos) placed with investors. The paper develops a model based on NPL transfer prices and residual recovery rates to assess capital...
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