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In the post-crisis period, increased regulation of financial intermediaries led to a significant decline in corporate bond market liquidity. In order to stabilize these markets, policy makers recently proposed that the trading of corporate bonds should be more centralized. In this paper, we show...
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do they mitigate, and how large are these effects? We show that by purchasing government bonds, central banks induce …
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largest banks are dropped from the sample. Results indicate that it is transitory. We also find a large effect of the crisis …
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monopoly and its impact on the note issuing chartered banks. Between 1935-1950, Canadian chartered banks had to gradually … withdraw their notes from circulation. In a difference-in-differences analysis, I show that chartered banks constrained by new … the longer horizon, suggesting that note issuance was an important source of revenue for private banks and allowed them to …
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The United States is now committed to using two relatively sophisticated approaches to measuring capital adequacy: Basel III and stress tests. This paper shows how stress testing could mitigate weaknesses in the way Basel III measures credit and interest rate risk, the way it measures bank...
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The Basel capital adequacy ratios lost credibility with financial markets during the crisis. This paper argues that failure was the result of the reliance of the Basel standards on overstated asset values in reported equity capital. The United States' stress tests were able to assist in...
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banks play complex, long-horizon games and face more than one tradeoff. We account for these issues in a simple infinite …, independent central banks cannot in general attain both low inflation and financial stability. …
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We estimate the long-run effects of the 1930s Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) redlining maps by linking children in the full count 1940 Census to 1) the universe of IRS tax data in 1974 and 1979 and 2) the long form 2000 Census. We use two identification strategies to estimate the potential...
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-interest rate environment, which fundamentally changed the business environment for the Japanese commercial banks. On the income … side, with interest margins becoming increasingly depressed, net interest revenues declined, which forced the banks to … expand revenues from fees and commissions. The banks had to cut costs by reducing the number of employees, closing branches …
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to commercial banks. During the crisis, however, the Federal Reserve created a number of facilities to support brokers … banks to nonbank financial institutions. In a specialized financial system, which the GSA had helped create, the use of the … lender-of-last-resort safety net could be more comfortably limited to commercial banks. However, the elimination of GSA …
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