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How Much Do Banks Use Credit Derivatives to Reduce Risk?
Minton, Bernadette A. - 2010
This paper examines the use of credit derivatives by US bank holding companies from 1999 to 2003 with assets in excess … of one billion dollars. Using the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Bank Holding Company Database, we find that in 2003 … represent on average two thirds of the assets of bank holding companies with assets in excess of $1 billion. Few banks are net …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012762392
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Does the Geographic Expansion of Bank Assets Reduce Risk?
Goetz, Martin Richard - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039767
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Financial Dampening
Wieland, Johannes - 2016
monetary policy. The theory unifies an endogenous supply of illiquid local loans and risk-sharing among subsidiaries of bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995512
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Banking System Stability : A Cross-Atlantic Perspective
Hartmann, Philipp - 2006
economies in the world. Finally, for Europe we assess the relative importance of cross-border bank spillovers as compared to … domestic bank spillovers. The results suggest, inter alia, that systemic risk in the US is higher than in the euro area, mainly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783643
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Did the Community Reinvestment Act (Cra) Lead to Risky Lending?
Agarwal, Sumit - 2012
Yes, it did. We use exogenous variation in banks' incentives to conform to the standards of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) around regulatory exam dates to trace out the effect of the CRA on lending activity. Our empirical strategy compares lending behavior of banks undergoing CRA exams...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096848
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The Alchemy of Cdo Credit Ratings
Benmelech, Efraim - 2010
Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs) were one of the largest and fastest growing segments of the structured finance market, fueling the 2003-2007 boom in syndicated loans and leveraged buyouts. The credit crisis brought CLO issuance to a halt, and as a result the leveraged loan market dried...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757547
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The Panic of 2007
Gorton, Gary B. - 2010
How did problems with subprime mortgages result in a systemic crisis, a panic? The ongoing Panic of 2007 is due to a loss of information about the location and size of risks of loss due to default on a number of interlinked securities, special purpose vehicles, and derivatives, all related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758346
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Default Risk Sharing between Banks and Markets : The Contribution of Collateralized Debt Obligations
Franke, Guenter - 2010
affects their default risk, their systematic risk, and their stock prices. In a typical CDO transaction a bank retains through … the bank sells loans in a true sale transaction, it may use the proceeds to expand its loan business, thereby affecting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012761910
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The Risk-Adjusted Cost of Financial Distress
Almeida, Heitor - 2010
In this paper we argue that risk-adjustment matters for the valuation of financial distress costs, since financial distress is more likely to happen in bad times. Systematic distress risk implies that the risk-adjusted probability of financial distress is larger than the historical probability....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012761946
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Market Evaluations of Banking Fragility in Japan : Japan Premium, Stock Prices, and Credit Derivatives
Ito, Takatoshi - 2010
1999, the markets were more sensitive to bank vulnerability and higher premiums were required …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012762833