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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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What to expect from the lower bound on interest rates : evidence from derivatives prices

Mertens, Thomas M.; Williams, John C. - 2018

This paper analyzes the effects of the lower bound for interest rates on the distributions of expectations for future inflation and interest rates. We study a stylized New Keynesian model where the policy instrument is subject to a lower bound to motivate the empirical analysis. Two equilibria...

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Visible and hidden risk factors for banks

Schuermann, Til (contributor); Stiroh, Kevin J. (contributor) - 2006

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The shadow banking system : implications for financial regulation

Adrian, Tobias; Shin, Hyun Song - 2009

The current financial crisis has highlighted the growing importance of the “shadow banking system,” which grew out of the securitization of assets and the integration of banking with capital market developments. This trend has been most pronounced in the United States, but it has had a...

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Corporate governance and banks : what have we learned from the financial crisis? : Hamid Mehran; Alan Morrison; Joel Shapiro

Mehran, Hamid; Morrison, Alan; Shapiro, Joel Andrew - 2011

Recent academic work and policy analysis give insight into the governance problems exposed by the financial crisis and suggest possible solutions. We begin this paper by explaining why governance of banks differs from governance of nonfinancial firms. We then look at four areas of governance:...

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Evaluating the information in the Federal Reserve stress tests

Flannery, Mark; Hirtle, Beverly J.; Kovner, Anna - 2015

cumulative abnormal returns (|CAR|) of stress-tested bank holding companies averages almost 3 percent. Cumulative abnormal …

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Money market funds intermediation, bank instability, and contagion

Cipriani, Marco; Martin, Antoine; Parigi, Bruno - 2013

intermediation through MMFs allows investors to limit their exposure to a given bank (i.e., reap gains from diversifi cation … an MMF-intermediated financial system is the release of private information on bank assets, which is aggregated by MMFs … and could lead them to withdraw en masse from a bank. In addition, we show that MMF intermediation can also be a channel …

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Financial stability monitoring

Adrian, Tobias; Covitz, Daniel M.; Liang, Jean Nellie - 2013

While the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) broadens the regulatory reach to reduce systemic risks to the U.S. financial system, it does not address some important risks that could migrate to or emanate from entities outside the federal safety net. At the same time, it limits the types of interventions by...

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Banking globalization, transmission, and monetary policy autonomy

Goldberg, Linda S. - 2013

International financial linkages, particularly through global bank flows, generate important questions about the …. Empirical tests of the trilemma support this view that global bank effects are heterogeneous and that the primary drivers of …

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Fire-sale spillovers and systemic risk

Duarte, Fernando; Eisenbach, Thomas M. - 2013

We construct a new systemic risk measure that quantifies vulnerability to fire-sale spillovers using detailed regulatory balance sheet data for U.S. commercial banks and repo market data for broker-dealers. Even for moderate shocks in normal times, fire-sale externalities can be substantial. For...

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