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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 took advances from Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBs). In contrast, foreign …
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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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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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We find that banks' credit exposures to transition risks are modest. We build on the estimated sectoral effects of … scenarios, exposures do not exceed 14 percent of banks' loan portfolios. We also find that commonly used carbon emissions can … management of transition risk exposures. Banks that signed the Net-Zero Alliance have reduced their exposures compared to non …
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We explore the design of climate stress tests to assess and manage macro-prudential risks from climate change in the financial sector. We review the climate stress scenarios currently employed by regulators, highlighting the need to (i) consider many transition risks as dynamic policy choices;...
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We examine sources of systemic risk (threshold size, complexity, and interconnectedness) with factors constructed from equity returns of large financial firms, after accounting for standard risk factors. From the factor loadings and factor returns, we estimate the implicit government subsidy for...
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, banks rely heavily on incoming funds to finance outgoing payments, necessitating a high degree of coordination and … comparative statics analyses on changes to the environment. We find that banks attempting to conserve liquidity cause an increase … identified as vulnerable to failure and other banks choose to cancel payments to that bank, there are systemic repercussions for …
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This paper explores financial stability policies for the shadow banking system. I tie policy options to economic mechanisms for shadow banking that have been documented in the literature. I then illustrate the role of shadow bank policies using three examples: agency mortgage real estate...
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This paper develops a model of financial institutions that borrow short term and invest in longterm assets that can be traded in frictionless markets. Because these financial intermediaries perform maturity transformation, they are subject to potential runs. We derive distinct liquidity,...
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institution in a climate stress scenario. We use the measure to study the climate-related risk exposure of large global banks in …
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