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Tracing the SEC ban on the short selling of financial stocks in September 2008, this paper investigates whether such selling activity before the 2008 short ban reflected financial companies’ risk exposure in the subprime crisis. Evidence suggests that short sellers sold short stocks that had...
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liquidity programs changed across the sample sub-periods. I-Bank and TBTF bank borrowing from the discount window is initially …
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This paper investigates contagion between bank and sovereign default risk in Europe over the period 2007–2012. We … common factors, using CDS spreads at the bank and at the sovereign level. Moreover, we investigate the determinants of … contagion by analyzing bank-specific as well as country-specific variables and their interaction. Using the EBA’s disclosure of …
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This paper presents a flexible, lattice-based structural credit risk model that uses equity market information and a detailed depiction of a financial institution’s liability structure to analyze default risk. The model is applied to examine the term structure of default probabilities for...
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discuss their impact on bank run risk. Based on a self-collected data set surveying depositors before (2007), at (2008), and …, who carry the highest risk of triggering a bank run, was reduced around the peak of the crisis but rebounded strongly … afterwards, even exceeding pre-crisis levels. These findings point to a higher bank run risk in the aftermath than during the …
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Prior to the 2007–2008 financial crisis, banking sector profits were very high but the profitability of financial intermediation was poor. Using a novel model of banking, this article argues that the high profits were achieved through balance sheet expansion and growing default, liquidity, and...
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suffer less deposit withdrawals or avoid a bank run in a severe crisis, because the state has better access to additional …
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customers, shut out of public debt markets, get bank loans through drawdowns of loan commitments. Unlike TARP under …
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We investigate whether or not market discipline on banking firms changed after the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (DFA) of 2010. If market discipline is improved, we should see a lower discount for size on yield spreads, particularly for banks identified as...
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range of real sectors is limited. Our results imply that regulators and supervisors should address international bank … dependencies arising from common risk factors, while recessions in real sectors due to bank defaults should be a secondary concern. …
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