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have an incentive to gamble on domestic sovereign bonds when they expect to suffer from non-bond losses in the aftermath of … simultaneously raise bank funding costs and drive banks to increase their purchases of domestic debt, crowding out bank lending …. Subsidized loans to banks, similar to the ECB's non-targeted longer-term refinancing operations (LTRO), strengthen gambling …
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This paper analyzes the impact of ongoing financial integration and increase in crossborder activities on banks’ common exposure to shocks and on banking sector systemic risk. For that, we study the evolution of correlations between large international banks’ asset-to-debt ratios over...
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It is commonplace to link neoclassical economics to 18th- or 19th-century physics and its notion of equilibrium, of a pendulum once disturbed eventually coming to rest. Likewise, an economy subjected to an exogenous shock seeks equilibrium through the stabilizing market forces unleashed by the...
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were in dollars and our sovereign currency issuer simply spent, lent, and guaranteed 29 trillion dollars’ worth of bad bank … bank debts were in 'foreign' currencies. By this I mean that even though Irish bank debt was in euros, the Government of … European Central Bank (ECB). Every euro issued in Ireland is ultimately convertible, one to one, to an ECB euro. There is …
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ratios- following intra- and (particularly) interstate liberalization of bank branching restrictions. This effect arises …
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I develop a new monetarist model to analyze why an economy can fall into a liquidity trap, and what the effects of unconventional monetary policy measures such as helicopter money and negative interest rates are under these circumstances. I find that liquidity traps can be caused by a decrease...
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central bank to implement monetary policy with less side effects, but at the cost of losing control over inflation through …
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countercyclical bank markups. Markup increments during recessions directly increase borrowing costs for firms and indirectly damage …
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Die aktuelle Finanzkrise, die einen Höhepunkt im Zusammenbruch der Investmentbank Lehmann Brothers fand, zeigt immer deutlichere Auswirkungen auf die Realwirtschaft außerhalb des Bankensektors. Durch diese Krise haben sich im Bankensektor zunehmende Liquiditätsschwierigkeiten entwickelt, die...
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We classify a large sample of banks according to the geographic diversification of their international syndicated loan portfolio. Our results show that diversified banks maintain higher loan supply during banking crises in borrower countries. The positive loan supply effects lead to higher...
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