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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 …
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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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Is There Dowry Inflation in South Asia?
Arunachalam, Raj - 2010
This paper is the first systematic attempt to measure the existence and degree of dowry inflation in South Asia. The popular press and scholarly literature have assumed dowry inflation in South Asia for some time, and there are now a number of theoretical papers that have attempted to explain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759434
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The Recent Growth Boom in Developing Economies : A Structural Change Perspective
Diao, Xinshen - 2017
Growth has accelerated in a wide range of developing countries over the last couple of decades, resulting in an extraordinary period of convergence with the advanced economies. We analyze this experience from the lens of structural change – the reallocation of labor from low- to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963742
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Marriage Institutions and Sibling Competition : Evidence from South Asia
Vogl, Tom - 2012
Using data from South Asia, this paper examines how arranged marriage cultivates rivalry among sisters. During marriage search, parents with multiple daughters reduce the reservation quality for an older daughter's groom, rushing her marriage to allow sufficient time to marry off her younger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101815
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Trade, Poverty and the Lagging Regions of South Asia
Krishna, Pravin - 2010
This chapter studies the differential effects that trade openness may have on leading and lagging regions within a country. Examining data from India, we find that while trade liberalization is associated with reduced poverty, this effect is smaller in lagging states. The expected transmission...
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Missing Unmarried Women
Anderson, Siwan - 2015
That unmarried individuals die at a faster rate than married individuals at all ages is well documented. Unmarried women in developing countries face particularly severe vulnerabilities, so that excess mortality faced by the unmarried is more extreme for women in these regions compared to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016643