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This paper explores how affiliation to financial conglomerates affects asset managers' access to capital, trading behavior, and performance. Focusing on a sample of hedge funds, we find that financial-conglomerate-affiliated hedge funds (FCAHFs) have lower flow-performance sensitivity than other...
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We show that long-term compensation is associated with higher pay in the financial industry and the legal sector. Then, using a detailed survey of law school graduates, we explore why firms use long-term compensation. We find that individuals with jobs that make them highly visible and that...
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We show that production networks are important for the transmission of unconventional monetary policy. We find that firms with bonds eligible for purchase under the European Central Bank's Corporate Sector Purchase Program act as financial intermediaries by extending more trade credit to their...
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We show that foreign lenders and low market share lenders extend more credit in comparison to other lenders during lending booms leading to banking crises, but not during other credit expansions. Less established lenders also increase the amount of credit they extend to riskier borrowers,...
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We show that mutual funds with a large share of a bond issue sell their holdings of that issue to a lower extent when they experience redemptions, arguably because they attempt to avoid a drop in the bond price and the consequent negative feedback effects on the unsold part of their position....
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Banks are widely believed to have an information advantage, but regulation forces them to sell deteriorating loans, potentially hampering renegotiation and amplifying the initial negative shock to the borrower. We study to what extent the secondary market affects loan outcomes after an initial...
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Exploiting confidential data from the euro area, we show that sound banks pass negative rates onto their corporate depositors and that the pass-through is not impaired when policy rates move deeper into negative territory. We do not observe a contraction in deposits. When their banks charge...
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Using a credit registry of European banks’ new loan issuance and content analysis on their environmental disclosures, we show that banks that portray themselves as environmentally conscious extend a higher volume of credit to borrowers in brown industries. These results are robust even after...
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Exploiting the introduction of the ECB’s tiering system for remunerating excess reserve holdings, we document the importance of the access to the money market for bank lending. We show that the two-tier system produced positive wealth effects for banks with excess reserves and encouraged a...
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