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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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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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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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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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Global liquidity refers to the volumes of financial flows—largely intermediated through global banks and non-bank … regulatory agendas related to non-bank financial institutions. …
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of bank regulatory capital. Our results show that following Basel I, undrawn fees and all-in-drawn credit spreads on …
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bank funding costs. We show that credit supply is dampened by the associated debtoverhang cost to bank shareholders. Until … offset if drawdowns are expected to be left on deposit at the same bank, which happened at some of the largest banks during …
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The rapid growth of the credit default swap (CDS) market and the increased number of defaults in recent years have led to major changes in the way CDS contracts are settled when default occurs. Auctions are increasingly the mechanism used to settle these contracts, replacing physical transfers...
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Are companies with traded credit default swap (CDS) positions on their debt more likely to default? Using a proportional hazard model of bankruptcy and Merton's contingent claims approach, we estimate the probability of default for US nonfinancial firms. Our analysis does not generally find a...
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When a sovereign faces the risk of debt default, it may be tempted to expropriate the private sector. This may be one reason why international investment in private companies has to take into account the sovereign risk. But the likelihood of sovereign risk transferring to corporates and...
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