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The paper uses bank- and instrument-level data on asset holdings and liabilities to identify and estimate a general … equilibrium model of trade in financial instruments. Bilateral ties are formed as each bank selects the size and the … lead to less amplification of partial equilibrium shocks, (ii) the influence of a bank's equity is independent of the size …
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established through bank-to-bank lending and provide evidence to support this claim. To analyze dynamics of formation of such …
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urban growth. Our estimates suggest that the presence of a bank at a given location in the late 1830s is associated with …
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We measure how securitized assets, including mortgage-backed securities and other asset-backed securities, have shifted across financial institutions over this crisis and how the availability of financing has accommodated such shifts. Sectors dependent on repo financing - in particular, the...
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how they are resolved. Our analysis sheds new light on the conflict between micro-prudential bank regulation and …
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to individual banks in the Merton tradition (1974) as a combination put option for the deep tail of bank losses and a … knock-in stop-loss call on bank assets. This model expresses the value of taxpayer loss exposure from a string of defaults … the face value of the debt of the entire sector. We conceive of an individual bank's systemic risk as its contribution to …
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the size of the economy, (2) the association between an increase in economic output and an increase in bank development …
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We thank Lakshmi Aiyar, Shawn Cole, Stijn Claessens, Oded Galor, Adair Morse, Mark Rosenzweig, Jeremy Stein, as well as participants in seminars at the IMF, the NBER Political Economy, Corporate Finance, and Growth Workshops, M.I.T., Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, the WFA...
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During extreme financial crises, all of a sudden, the financial world that was once rife with profit opportunities for financial institutions (banks, for short) becomes exceedingly complex. Confusion and uncertainty follow, ravaging financial markets and triggering massive flight-to-quality...
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Over the last three decades there has been a dramatic increase in the size of the financial sector and in the compensation of financial executives. This increase has been associated with greater risk-taking and the use of more complex financial instruments. Parallel to this trend, the...
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