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evidence to date points in the opposite direction, that is, towards overvaluation of bank assets …
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recognizing greater risks and losses, can lead to solvency problems that look like liquidity (bank-run) crises. Regulatory …
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Bank balance sheet lending is commonly viewed as the predominant form of lending. We document and study two margins of … document the limits of the shadow bank substitution margin: shadow banks substitute for traditional--deposit-taking--banks in … quantitative consequences of several policies on lending volume and pricing, bank stability, and the distribution of consumer …
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hedge to fund drawn credit lines and other commitments. We shed new light on this issue by studying the behavior of bank …
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Existing macroeconomic models focused on bank balance sheet lending are deficient because they do not account for the … investigate two increasingly significant margins of adjustment in credit markets: banks' ability to sell loans and shadow bank … following bank capital shock. Recovery is also faster, because profitable loan sales (e.g., securitization) allow banks to build …
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In 2010, the U.S. estate tax expired and executors of wealthy decedents were not required to file estate tax returns. In the absence of the estate tax, beneficiaries received assets with carryover rather than stepped-up basis. Unrealized capital gains accounted for 44 percent of the fair market...
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Much attention has been paid to the large decreases in value of non-agency residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) during the financial crisis. Many observers have argued that the fall in prices was partly driven by decreased liquidity and fire sales. We investigate whether capital...
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This paper uses an asymmetric information framework to understand the causes of the recent financial crisis in Korea. It shows that the Korean data is consistent with this explanation of the crisis. It then draws on this analysis to discuss several lessons that can help guide Korean policymakers...
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Realizing that their traditional instruments were inadequate for responding to the crisis that began on 9 August 2007, Federal Reserve officials improvised. Beginning in mid-December 2007, they implemented a series of changes directed at ensuring that liquidity would be distributed to those...
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This paper uses disaggregated data on bank balance sheets to provide a test of the lending view of monetary policy …
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