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accounting for loan portfolios held to maturity. Marked-to-market bank assets have declined by an average of 10% across all the …-- unlike insured depositors, uninsured depositors stand to lose a part of their deposits if the bank fails, potentially giving … them incentives to run. A case study of the recently failed Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is illustrative. 10 percent of banks …
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" bank-distress episodes …
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next three months. A comprehensive bank-level database reveals the public responded to signals sent by regulators' actions …
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Domestic prudential regulation can have unintended effects across borders and may be less effective in an environment where banks operate globally. Using U.S. micro-banking data for the first quarter of 2000 through the third quarter of 2013, this study shows that some regulatory changes indeed...
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We study a modification of the Diamond and Dybvig (1983) model in which the bank may hold a liquid asset, some … depositors see sunspots that could lead them to run, and all depositors have incomplete information about the bank's ability to … survive a run. The incomplete information means that the bank is not automatically incentivized to always hold enough liquid …
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"This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty alleviation, in rural Zambia. The reforms comprised the elimination of the Zambian cotton marketing board that was in place since 1977. Following liberalization, the sector adopted an...
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In this paper we reconsider the evidence on capital account liberalization and growth. While we find indications of a positive association, the effects vary with time, with how capital account liberalization is measured, and with how the relationship is estimated. The evidence that the effects...
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This paper discusses the political, regulatory and economic factors that led to California's electricity crisis in 2000 and 2001. It begins with a discussion of the origins of California's electricity restructuring and competition programs. It then discusses the structure of the wholesale and...
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Product and labor market deregulation are fundamentally about reducing and redistributing rents, leading economic … players to adjust in turn to this new distribution. Thus, even if deregulation eventually proves beneficial, it comes with … market deregulation, we then use our results to study two specific issues. First, to shed light on macroeconomic evolutions …
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profits. Instead of such an equilibrium, a deregulation race is likely to emerge in which all but the last country repeal … their antitrust laws. The deregulation race results in a chain of Stackelberg leadership positions taken over by national …
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