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; ii) the impact of regulation; and iii) how bank closures exacerbated the post-war bust. The boom encouraged new bank … bank portfolios, while higher minimum capital requirements dampened the effects. Banks that responded most aggressively to … the asset boom had a higher probability of closing in the bust, and counties with more bank closures experienced larger …
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quantitative decomposition behind the collapse in bank lending during the 2008 financial crisis. Our analysis underscores the …
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We study a modification of the Diamond and Dybvig (1983) model in which the bank may hold a liquid asset, some … depositors see sunspots that could lead them to run, and all depositors have incomplete information about the bank's ability to … survive a run. The incomplete information means that the bank is not automatically incentivized to always hold enough liquid …
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While the balance sheet structure of U.S. banks influences how they respond to liquidity risks, the mechanisms for the effects on and consequences for lending vary widely across banks. We demonstrate fundamental differences across banks without foreign affiliates versus those with foreign...
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This paper examines how the risk based capital standards, the so-called Basle Accord between 1990 and 1993. As the Japanese stock prices fell, banks' latent capital gains, which are part of tier II capital, became smaller. Empirical findings are consistent with a view that banks with lower...
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We develop a new identification strategy to evaluate the impact of the geographic expansion of bank holding company … (BHC) assets across U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) on BHC risk. We find that the geographic expansion of bank …
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From 1973 to 2014, the common stock of U.S. banks with loan growth in the top quartile of banks over a three-year period significantly underperforms the common stock of banks with loan growth in the bottom quartile over the next three years. The benchmark-adjusted cumulative difference in...
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What is the relationship between bank capital, the risk of a financial crisis, and its severity? This paper introduces …
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When a firm is unable to roll over its debt, it may have to seek more expensive sources of financing or even liquidate its assets. This paper provides a normative analysis of minimizing such rollover risk, through the optimal dynamic choice of the maturity structure of debt. The objective of a...
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1999, the markets were more sensitive to bank vulnerability and higher premiums were required …
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