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banking literature to the insurance industry; (ii) assessing the interconnections among reinsurers through potential claims … rather than premiums; and (iii) investigating the most opaque part of the global insurance market, namely, counterparty … in the insurance sector and promote financial stability. …
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We document five facts about banks: (1) market and book leverage diverged during the 2008 crisis, (2) Tobin's Q predicts future profitability, (3) neither book nor market leverage appears constrained, (4) banks maintain a market-leverage target that is reached slowly, and (5) precrisis, leverage...
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We employ a comprehensive data set and a variety of methods to provide evidence on the magnitude of large banks' funding advantage in Canada, and on the extent to which market discipline exists across different securities issued by the Canadian banks. The banking sector in Canada provides a...
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This paper explains the nature of interest rates in the U.S. federal funds market after the 2007-09 financial crisis. We build a model of the over-the-counter lending market that incorporates new aspects of the financial system: abundance of liquidity, different regulatory standards for banks,...
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, the credibility and effectiveness of these guarantees are crucially intertwined with the sovereign's funding risks … rollover risks of a bank and a government, which are connected through the government's guarantee of bank liabilities. We show …
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In October 2006, Dominion Bond Rating Service (DBRS) introduced new ratings for banks that account for the potential of government support. The rating changes are not a reflection of any changes in the respective banks' credit fundamentals. We use this natural experiment to evaluate the...
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In the months preceding the failure of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, banks were willing to pay a premium over the Federal Reserve's discount window (DW) rate to participate in the much less flexible Term Auction Facility (TAF). We empirically test the predictions of a new signalling model...
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We propose a tractable, model-based stress-testing framework where the solvency risks, funding liquidity risks and … market risks of banks are intertwined. We highlight how coordination failure between a bank's creditors and adverse selection …
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unsecured debt and thus exacerbates fragility and raises unsecured funding costs. Deposit insurance or wholesale funding …
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fully internalize default costs from high lending since deposit insurance cannot be priced fairly. Still, output net of …
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