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, national banks raise overdraft fees relative to state-chartered banks in affected states. However, banks in affected states …
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Banks hold liquid and illiquid assets. An illiquid bank that receives a liquidity shock sells assets to liquid banks in …
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Banks face two different kinds of moral hazard problems: asset substitution by shareholders (e.g., making risky … risk in which all banks choose inefficiently high leverage to fund correlated assets and market discipline is compromised …
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With business leverage at record levels, the effects of corporate debt overhang on growth and investment have become a prominent concern. In this paper, we study the effects of corporate debt overhang based on long-run cross-country data covering the near-universe of modern business cycles. We...
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This paper investigates the incentives for banks to bias their internally generated risk estimates. We are able to … by low-capital banks to improve regulatory ratios. At the portfolio level, the difference in borrower probability of … credits. In addition, we find that low-capital banks' risk estimates have less explanatory power than those of high …
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This paper empirically investigates banks' investment allocations over the recent business cycle. I identify … the pre-recession period, banks lend 38 percent of incremental deposits; however, during the downturn, banks favor liquid … assets and lending allocations fall to 22 percent. Banks with low risk tolerance or less access to liquidity are particularly …
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We build a model of a financial intermediary, in the tradition of Diamond and Dybvig (1983), and show that allowing the intermediary to impose redemption fees or gates in a crisis - a form of suspension of convertibility - can lead to preemptive runs. In our model, a fraction of investors...
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Not very. We find that weather disasters over the last quarter century had insignificant or small effects on U.S. banks … offsets losses and actually boosts profits at larger banks. Local banks tend to avoid mortgage lending where floods are more …
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network. We estimate that the impairment of any of the five most active U.S. banks will result in significant spillovers to … other banks, with 38 percent of the network affected on average. The impact varies and can be larger on particular days and … in geographies with concentrated banking markets. When banks respond to uncertainty by liquidity hoarding, the potential …
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We examine liquidity creation per unit of assets by banks subject to the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) using the … asset pair with different LCR weights, and the differential implementation of LCR by the very large and less-large LCR banks …. We find that, since 2013, there has been reduced liquidity creation by LCR banks compared to non-LCR banks, occurring …
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