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Macroprudential policy and the revolving door of risk : lessons from leveraged lending guidance
Kim, Sooji; Plosser, Matthew C.; Santos, João A. C. - 2017
more lax lending policies than banks, we unveil important evidence that nonbanks increased bank borrowing following the …
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Cournot fire sales
Eisenbach, Thomas M.; Phelan, Gregory - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806238
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Credit risk transfer and de facto GSE reform
Finkelstein, David L.; Strzodka, Andreas; Vickery, James - 2018
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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Is size everything?
Antill, Samuel; Sarkar, Asani - 2018
time series and the cross section. TSIZE-implied subsidies increase around the bailout of Continental Illinois in 1984 and …
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Resolving troubled systemically important cross-border financial institutions : is a new corporate organizational form required?
Cumming, Christine M.; Eisenbeis, Robert A. - 2010
firm incentives in a post-reform financial system. -- Financial regulatory reform ; corporate governance ; bank charter … ; bank insolvency …
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The effect of bank monitoring on loan repayment
Branzoli, Nicola; Fringuellotti, Fulvia - 2020
bank monitoring based on banks' requests for information on their existing borrowers and we investigate the effect of bank … exogenous variation in bank monitoring. Our identification strategy is supported by a theoretical model predicting that a … decrease in the tax rate improves bank incentives to monitor borrowers by increasing returns from lending. We find that bank …
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Discussion of "an integrated framework for multiple financial regulations"
Adrian, Tobias - 2012
A 2012 paper by Goodhart, Kashyap, Tsomocos, and Vardoulakis (GKTV) proposes a dynamic general equilibrium framework that provides a conceptual - and to some extent quantitative - framework for the analysis of macroprudential policies. The distinguishing feature of GKTV's paper relative to any...
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Bailouts and financial fragility
Keister, Todd - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008746936
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How do global banks scramble for liquidity? : evidence from the asset-backed commercial paper freeze of 2007
Acharya, Viral V.; Afonso, Gara; Kovner, Anna - 2013
In August of 2007, banks faced a freeze in funding liquidity from the asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) market. We investigate how banks scrambled for liquidity in response to this freeze and its implications for corporate borrowing. Commercial banks in the United States raised deposits and...
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LIBOR : origins, economics, crisis, scandal, and reform
Hou, David; Skeie, David - 2014
The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is a widely used indicator of funding conditions in the interbank market. As of 2013, LIBOR underpins more than $300 trillion of financial contracts, including swaps and futures, in addition to trillions more in variable-rate mortgage and student loans....
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