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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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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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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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stems partly from lack of funding and partly from heightened counterparty credit risk. Central bank interventions helped … ; counterparty credit risk ; central bank currency swap lines ; financial crisis ; foreign exchange …
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cumulative abnormal returns (|CAR|) of stress-tested bank holding companies averages almost 3 percent. Cumulative abnormal …
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This article describes the background, design choices and particular details of stress tests used as part of an overall supervisory regime; that is, their formal integration into the process of the ongoing prudential supervision of banks and other large financial institutions. We then describe...
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well as bank risk-taking, growth, and operating costs. We use a difference-in-differences approach, making use of the fact … in large "jumbo" mortgages. We find no clear evidence of substitution in lending between bank and nonbank subsidiaries …, or effects on asset growth or bank noninterest expenses. …
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Loan funds are open-end mutual funds holding predominantly corporate leveraged loans. We document empirically that loan funds are significantly more susceptible to run risk than any other category of debt funds, including corporate bond funds. Most importantly, we establish a link between loan...
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