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foundation for a funding liquidity channel in a global banking model where exchange rates fluctuate as a function of banks …
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I develop a framework of the buildup and outbreak of financial crises in an asymmetric information setting. In equilibrium, two distinct economic states arise endogenously: "normal times", periods of modest investment, and "booms", periods of expansionary investment. Normal times occur when the...
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more lax lending policies than banks, we unveil important evidence that nonbanks increased bank borrowing following the … lending. We find that the guidance primarily impacted large, closely supervised banks, but only after supervisors issued … issuance of guidance, possibly to finance their growing leveraged lending. The guidance was effective at reducing banks …
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the bank sector is highly procyclical, the leverage of the nonbank financial sector is acyclical. We propose a theory of a … two-agent financial intermediary sector within a dynamic model of the macroeconomy. Banks are financed by issuing risky … financialsector assets. The procyclicality of the banking sector is due to its risk-based funding constraints, which give a central …
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. The complex bank holding companies of today are the best example of hybrid intermediaries, but I argue that financial … become significant intermediaries and that turned into bank holding companies post-Lehman are, from an organizational …
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The Basel I Accord introduced a discontinuity in required capital for undrawn credit commitments. While banks had to … of bank regulatory capital. Our results show that following Basel I, undrawn fees and all-in-drawn credit spreads on …, both undrawn fees and spreads went up. These results are robust and confirm that banks act to conserve regulatory capital …
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Standard factor pricing models do not capture well the common time-series or cross-sectional variation in average returns of financial stocks. We propose a five-factor asset pricing model that complements the standard Fama and French (1993) three-factor model with a financial sector ROE factor...
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This paper studies the question of the economic scale of financial institutions. We show that banks actively smooth …
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banks and nonbanks respond differentially to changes in macroeconomic conditions, with bank credit more sensitive to …
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One of the most robust stylized facts in macroeconomics is the forecasting power of the term spread for future real activity. The economic rationale for this forecasting power usually appeals to expectations of future interest rates, which affect the slope of the term structure. In this paper,...
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