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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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Trading risk and volatility in interest rate swap spreads

Kambhu, John (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper examines how risk in trading activity can affect the volatility of asset prices. We look for this relationship in the behavior of interest rate swap spreads and in the volume and interest rates of repurchase contracts. Specifically, we focus on convergence trading, in which...

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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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Robust capital regulation

Acharya, Viral V.; Mehran, Hamid; Schuermann, Til; … - 2011

Banks' leverage choices represent a delicate balancing act. Credit discipline argues for more leverage, while balance-sheet opacity and ease of asset substitution argue for less. Meanwhile, regulatory safety nets promote ex post financial stability, but also create perverse incentives for banks...

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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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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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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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Liquidity risk and U.S. bank lending at home and abroad

Correa, Ricardo; Goldberg, Linda S.; Rice, Tara N. - 2014

While the balance sheet structure of U.S. banks influences how they respond to liquidity risks, the mechanisms for the effects on and consequences for lending vary widely across banks. We demonstrate fundamental differences across banks without foreign affiliates versus those with foreign...

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