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This paper evaluates ways to protect highly dollarized banking systems from systemic liquidity runs (such as the ones … the use of limited dollar liquidity to ensure the convertibility of transactional deposits with a mechanism that … automatically limits the convertibility of dollar term deposits once triggered by a predetermined decline in banks'' liquidity …
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This paper develops a model of the lender of last resort. It provides an analytical basis for “too big too fail” and a rationale for “constructive ambiguity”. Key results are that if contagion (moral hazard) is the main concern, the Central Bank (CB) will have an excessive (little)...
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The financial system in Uruguay underwent a serious crisis beginning in 1982, which resulted in the failure of many banks and to a major restructuring of the financial system. This paper examines the causes and consequences of this crisis, exploring the relationship between developments in the...
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The global financial crisis (GFC) has renewed interest in emergency liquidity support (sometimes referred to as 'Lender …
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This paper shows that a central bank, by announcing and committing ex-ante to a bailout policy that is contingent on the realization of certain states of nature (for example on the occurrence of an adverse macroeconomic shock), creates a risk-reducing “value effect” that more than outweighs...
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While there is an extensive literature examining the economic impact of conflict and political instability, surprisingly there have been few studies on their impact on the probability of banking crises. This paper therefore investigates whether rising conflict and political instability globally...
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We track direct public interventions and public holdings in 1,114 financial institutions over the period 2007-17 in 37 countries based on publicly available information. We use aggregate official data to validate this new dataset and estimate the fiscal impact of interventions, including the...
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This paper assesses whether and how financial development triggers the occurrence of banking crises. It builds on a database that includes financial development as well as financial access, depth and efficiency for almost 100 countries. Through estimation of a dynamic logit panel model, it...
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The provision of foreign exchange liquidity by emerging market central banks during the global shock of 2008-09 departs … from the domestic liquidity lender of last resort role described by Bagehot in his classic ""Lombard Street."" This paper … documents and analyzes the foreign exchange liquidity providing measures of the Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) in response to …
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This paper describes how behavioral elements are relevant to financial supervision, regulation, and central banking. It focuses on (1) behavioral effects of norms (social, legal, and market); (2) behavior of others (internalization, identification, and compliance); and (3) psychological biases....
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