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Equity capital, bankruptcy risk and the liquidity trap

Levintal, Oren - 2011

This paper explains the emergence of liquidity traps in the aftermath of large-scale financial crises, as happened in the US 1930s, Japan 1990s and recently in the US and Europe. The paper introduces a new balance sheet channel that links equity capital to the risk-free interest rate. When...

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Shorting the bear: A test of anecdotal evidence of insider trading in early stages of the sub-prime market crisis

Coleman, Les; Schnytzer, Adi - 2011

This article uses trading data in the options market for shares in The Bear Sterns Companies (BSC) during the early stages of the US sub-prime crisis as a laboratory to examine the incidence of insider trading. We take the perspective of a regulator making use of hindsight to identify the most...

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The effects of the saving and banking glut on the U.S. economy

Justiniano, Alejandro; Primiceri, Giorgio E.; … - 2013

We use a quantitative equilibrium model with houses, collateralized debt and foreign borrowing to study the impact of global imbalances on the U.S. economy in the 2000s. Our results suggest that the dynamics of foreign capital flows account for between one fourth and one third of the increase in...

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Contagion effects of the Silicon Valley Bank run

Choi, Dong Beom; Goldsmith-Pinkham, Paul; Yorulmazer, Tanju - 2023

This paper analyzes the contagion effects associated with the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and identifies bank-specific vulnerabilities contributing to the subsequent declines in banks' stock returns. We find that uninsured deposits, unrealized losses in held-to-maturity securities, bank...

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AIG in hindsight

McDonald, Robert; Paulson, Anna - 2014

The near-failure on September 16, 2008, of American International Group (AIG) was an iconic moment in the financial crisis. The decision to rescue AIG was controversial at the time and remains so. Large bets on real estate pushed AIG to the brink of bankruptcy. In one case, AIG used securities...

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Financialisation and stagnation: A macroeconomic regime perspective

Hein, Eckhard - 2020

-led mercantilist and the domestic demand-led regime and apply this to six countries, Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the USA …

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Spillovers from Euro Area and U.S. Credit and Demand Shocks: Comparing Emerging Europe on the Basis of a GVAR Model

Fadejeva, Ludmila; Feldkircher, Martin; Reininger, Thomas - 2015

and the U.S.A. For that purpose, we use a global vector autoregressive (GVAR) model and isolate disturbances stemming from … shocks in the euro area and in the U.S.A. Last, historical decompositions of deviations from trend growth show that for the … euro area developments, foreign shocks originating in the U.S.A., the UK and the CESEE and CIS regions feature most …

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Do Disaster Expectations Explain Household Portfolios?

Alan, Sule - 2011

It has been argued that rare economic disasters can explain most asset pricing puzzles. If this is the case, perceived risk associated with a disaster in stock markets should be revealed in household portfolios. That is, the framework that solves these pricing puzzles should also generate...

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On the Network Topology of Variance Decompositions: Measuring the Connectedness of Financial Firms

Diebold, Francis X.; Yılmaz, Kamil - 2011

We propose several connectedness measures built from pieces of variance decompositions, and we argue that they provide natural and insightful measures of connectedness among financial asset returns and volatilities. We also show that variance decompositions define weighted, directed networks, so...

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Measuring the stability of a dynamic system: The case of the stock market turmoil 2007-2008

Bask, Mikael; Widerberg, Anna - 2010

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how the change in actual and potential market risks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) during the two-year period 2007-2008 can be analyzed with the help of-analysis. In the empirical analysis, the average of the Lyapunov exponents for the dynamic...

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