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financial centers like Switzerland. We focus on the pattern of capital flows involving the Swiss banking industry. We first rely … into Switzerland by foreign banks. We then use more detailed data from Swiss banking statistics which allow us to … Switzerland, yet are foreign-owned. In addition, while the demand for the Swiss franc was driven by both foreign and domestic …
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We draw on a new data set on the use of Swiss francs and other currencies by European banks to assess the patterns of foreign currency bank lending. We show that the patterns differ sharply across foreign currencies. The Swiss franc is used predominantly for lending to residents, especially...
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capital inflows to Switzerland. This paper attempts to find some empirical evidence for this presumption. The analysis reveals …
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Bank of Japan exert important spillover effects on asset prices in Switzerland if market anticipation of UMP announcements …
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We ask whether the markets expected the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to discontinue the 1.20 cap on the Swiss franc against the euro in January 2015. In the runup to the SNB announcement, neither options on the euro/Swiss franc nor FX liquidity indicated a significant shift in market expectations....
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(2013), call it HQLA premium. To do so, we exploit the introduction of the LCR in Switzerland as a unique quasi …
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This paper provides an empirical analysis of the network characteristics of two interrelated interbank money markets and their impact on overall market conditions. Based on transaction data from the unsecured and secured Swiss franc money markets, the trading network structures are assessed...
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The global Great Recession has sparked renewed interest in the relationships between financial conditions and real activity. This paper considers the Swiss experience, studying the impact of credit market conditions and housing prices on real activity over the last three decades through the lens...
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