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In the last two decades the European financial markets have become more market oriented. We analyze the economic and political forces that have triggered these changes as well as their likely welfare implications. We also try to assess whether this trend will continue. Based on our analysis, we...
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A lending boom is reflected in the composition of bank liabilities when traditional retail deposits (core liabilities …
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By looking at how an East Asian currency moves when the yen fluctuates sharply against the US dollar, we sometimes find that the reaction has been much more significant than would be suggested by the econometric estimates of the weight of the yen in nominal exchange rate determination. Moreover,...
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-rated tranches were economically trivial for the typical bank, but banks with greater holdings performed more poorly during the …-rated tranches are not higher for banks with large trading books in regressions that control for bank size. The ratio of highly …-rated tranches holdings to assets increases with bank assets, but not for banks with more than $50 billion of assets. This evidence …
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. Using branch-level deposit rate data, we find little evidence for market discipline as rates are similar across bank … correlated with loan growth in other states in which their bank has some presence, suggesting internal capital markets help … reallocate the bank's funding …
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We show that maturity transformation does not expose banks to significant interest rate risk|it hedges it. This is due to banks' deposit franchise. The deposit franchise gives banks substantial market power over deposits, allowing them to pay deposit rates that are low and insensitive to market...
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that centers on the existence of an increasingly efficient market for bank shares. The stock market was important because …
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We propose a dynamic theory of banking where the role of deposits is akin to that of productive capital in the classical q-theory of investment. As a cheap source of leverage, deposits typically create value for banks, but the marginal q of deposits can be negative. Deposit accounts commit banks...
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Is bank capital structure designed to extract deposit subsidies? We address this question by studying capital structure … banks finance themselves primarily with short-term debt and originate long-term loans. However, shadow bank debt is provided … primarily by informed and concentrated lenders. (4) Shadow bank leverage increases substantially with size, and the …
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composition of local bank credit supply towards more productive firms. We estimate that this effect translates into economically …
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