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allows banks in different regions to smooth local liquidity shocks by borrowing and lending on a world interbank market. We … second-best world, financial integration can increase the welfare benefits of liquidity requirements … show under which conditions financial integration induces banks to reduce their liquidity holdings and to shift their …
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When a sovereign faces the risk of debt default, it may be tempted to expropriate the private sector. This may be one reason for why international investment in private companies has to take into account the sovereign risk. But the likelihood of a transfer from the sovereign risk to corporate...
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How did the Subprime Crisis, a problem in a small corner of U.S. financial markets, affect the entire global banking system? To shed light on this question we use principal components analysis to identify common factors in the movement of banks' credit default swap spreads. We find that fortunes...
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Counseling website. We test the role information complexity, uncertainty about earnings, and the default option play. We show …
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This paper solves a dynamic model of a household's decision to default on its mortgage, taking into account labor income, house price, inflation, and interest rate risk. Mortgage default is triggered by negative home equity, which results from declining house prices in a low inflation...
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This paper studies the interaction between fundamental and liquidity for defaultable corporate bonds that are traded in … liquidity, which depends on both the firm fundamental and the time-to-maturity of the bond. Corporate default decisions interact … with the endogenous secondary market liquidity via the rollover channel. A default-liquidity loop arises: Earlier …
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Empirical tests of reduced form models of default attribute a large fraction of observed credit spreads to compensation for jump-to-default risk. However, these models preclude a "contagion-risk'' channel, where the aggregate corporate bond index reacts adversely to a credit event. In this...
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information state of the economy. At each date, in general there is either "good news" (the information state improves), "bad news …" (the information state gets worse), or "no news" (the information state remains the same). When rollover risk is high …. Thus, a small change in information, as measured by a change in the fundamental value, can lead to a "market freeze …
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market liquidity and shorter debt maturity can exacerbate this externality and cause costly firm bankruptcy at higher … fundamental thresholds. Our model provides implications on liquidity-spillover effects, the flight-to-quality phenomenon, and …
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liquidity may be related positively to the longer-term probability of default. Our empirical analysis confirms these predictions …
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