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In the face of rising interest rates in 2022, banks mitigated interest rate exposure of the accounting value of their assets but left the vast majority of their long-duration assets exposed to interest rate risk. Data from call reports and SEC filings shows that only 6% of U.S. banking assets...
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Banks' reluctance to repair their balance sheets, combined with deposit insurance and regulatory forbearance in recognizing greater risks and losses, can lead to solvency problems that look like liquidity (bank-run) crises. Regulatory forbearance incentivizes banks to both retain risky loans and...
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adjustment that are usually absent from this view using microdata in the $10 trillion U.S. residential mortgage market. We first …
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We study whether the socially optimal level of stability of the banking system can be implemented with regulatory capital requirements in a multi-period general equilibrium model of banking. We show that: (i) bank capital is costly because of the unique liquidity services provided by demand...
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against direct mortgages relative to mortgage- backed securities. In addition, we find large differences in the credit …
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This paper assesses the probable impact on S&Ls' profitability and participation in mortgage markets of The Depository …&L mortgage holdings between 1965 and 1979 and argues(contrary to conventional wisdom) that deposit-rate ceilings proved no more … and state restrictions on S&L loan opportunities and on mortgage lenders' ability to design and to price mortgage …
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gaps were partly filled by shadow banks. Shadow banks with predominately online mortgage application process, "fintech … shadow banks. We interpret the variation in mortgage rates and market shares using the model and find that increasing …
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mortgage products. We identify this activity by comparing borrowers who were rejected by lenders but were subsequently approved …
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We investigate whether homeowners respond strategically to news of mortgage modification programs. We exploit plausibly … strategic behavior should be an important consideration in designing mortgage modification programs …
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We investigate the relationships of bank failures and balance sheet conditions with measures of proximity to different forms of transportation in the United States over the period from 1830-1860. A series of hazard models and bank-level regressions indicate a systematic relationship between...
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