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firm incentives in a post-reform financial system. -- Financial regulatory reform ; corporate governance ; bank charter … ; bank insolvency …
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Government interventions such as bailouts are often implemented in times of high uncertainty. Policymakers may therefore rely on information from financial markets to guide their decisions. We propose a model in which a policymaker learns from market activity and where market participants have...
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The financial sector bailouts seen during the Great Recession generated substantial opposition and controversy. We assess the welfare benefits of government-funded emergency support to the financial sector, taking into account its effects on risk-taking incentives. In our quantitative general...
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more lax lending policies than banks, we unveil important evidence that nonbanks increased bank borrowing following the …
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those investors facing losses. The anticipation of such a "bailout" distorts ex ante incentives, leading intermediaries to … incentive problem while improving financial stability. -- Bank runs ; financial regulation …
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The recent crisis has underlined the importance of sound bank liquidity management. In response, regulators are … authors analyse the impact of liquid asset holdings on bank profitability for a sample of large U.S. and Canadian banks … that this relationship varies depending on a bank's business model and the state of the economy. These results are …
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Bank regulation is based on the premise that risks spill over more easily from large banks to the banking system than … vice versa. On the contrary, we document that risk transmission is stronger in the system-to-bank direction. We term this … banks with positive net exposure to the system had higher default risk during the 2008 crisis, and that bank size and …
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We study how changes in prudential requirements affect cross-border lending of Canadian banks by utilizing an index that aggregates adjustments in key regulatory instruments across jurisdictions. We show that when a destination country tightens local prudential measures, Canadian banks lend more...
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In standard Walrasian macro-finance models, pecuniary externalities such as fire sales lead to overinvestment in illiquid assets or underprovision of liquidity. We investigate whether imperfect competition (Cournot) improves welfare through internalizing the externality and find that this is far...
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We summarize and evaluate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's credit risk transfer (CRT) programs, which have been used since 2013 to shift a portion of credit risk on more than $1.8 trillion of mortgages to private sector investors. We argue that the CRT programs have been successful in reducing the...
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