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Zombie Lending and Depressed Restructuring in Japan

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2010

In this paper, we propose a bank-based explanation for the decade-long Japanese slowdown following the asset price collapse in the early 1990s. We start with the well-known observation that most large Japanese banks were only able to comply with capital standards because regulators were lax in...

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Liquidity Risk, Liquidity Creation and Financial Fragility : A Theory of Banking

Diamond, Douglas W. - 2010

Both investors and borrowers are concerned about liquidity. Investors desire liquidity because they are uncertain about … when they will want to eliminate their holding of a financial asset. Borrowers are concerned about liquidity because they … compensation for the illiquidity investors will be subject to. We argue that banks can resolve these liquidity problems that arise …

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Liquidity Crises in Emerging Markets : Theory and Policy

Chang, Roberto; Velasco, Andrés - 2022

We build a model of financial sector illiquidity in an open economy. Illiquidity defined as a situation in which a country's consolidated financial system has potential short-term obligations in foreign currency that exceed the amount of foreign currency it can have access to on short notice can...

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Causes of the Korean Financial Crisis : Lessons for Policy

Hahm, Joon-Ho; Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2022

This paper uses an asymmetric information framework to understand the causes of the recent financial crisis in Korea. It shows that the Korean data is consistent with this explanation of the crisis. It then draws on this analysis to discuss several lessons that can help guide Korean policymakers...

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"To Establish a More Effective Supervision of Banking" : How the Birth of the Fed Altered Bank Supervision

White, Eugene N. - 2011

Although bank supervision under the National Banking System exercised a light hand and panics were frequent, depositor losses were minimal. Double liability induced shareholders to carefully monitor bank managers and voluntarily liquidate banks early if they appeared to be in trouble. Inducing...

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Safety-Net Benefits Conferred on Difficult-to-Fail-And-Unwind Banks in the Us and EU Before and During the Great Recession

Carbo-Valverde, Santiago - 2011

This paper models and estimates ex ante safety-net benefits at a sample of large banks in US and Europe during 2003-2008. Our results suggest that difficult-to-fail and unwind (DFU) banks enjoyed substantially higher ex ante benefits than other institutions. Safety-net benefits prove...

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The Lessons from the Banking Panics in the United States in the 1930s for the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008

Bordo, Michael D. - 2011

panics of the 1930s of conducting expansionary open market policy to meet demands for liquidity. Unlike the 1930s the deepest …

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Who Should Supervise? The Structure of Bank Supervision and the Performance of the Financial System

Eichengreen, Barry - 2011

We assemble data on the structure of bank supervision, distinguishing supervision by the central bank from supervision by a nonbank governmental agency and independent from dependent governmental supervisors. Using observations for 140 countries from 1998 through 2010, we find that supervisory...

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Durable Financial Regulation : Monitoring Financial Instruments as a Counterpart to Regulating Financial Institutions

Nakamura, Leonard I. - 2011

This paper sets forth a discussion framework for the information requirements of systemic financial regulation. It specifically describes a potentially large macro-micro database for the U.S. based on an extended version of the Flow of Funds. I argue that such a database would have been of...

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Testing Macroprudential Stress Tests : The Risk of Regulatory Risk Weights

Acharya, Viral V. - 2013

Macroprudential stress tests have been employed by regulators in the United States and Europe to assess and address the solvency condition of financial firms in adverse macroeconomic scenarios. We provide a test of these stress tests by comparing their risk assessments and outcomes to those from...

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