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We study whether climate transition risk is reflected in the credit default swap (CDS) spreads of firms. Using … risk (CTR) factor, and document how this factor shifts the term structure of the CDS spreads of more vulnerable firms but … that they have asymmetric and significant economic impacts on the credit risk of more vulnerable firms, and negligible …
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, which are disproportionately affected by climate change, raises significant concerns. This study shows that sovereign risk …. Countries with elevated risk levels are disproportionately vulnerable to climate change compared to their lower-risk … vulnerability to climate change, in terms of sovereign risk, particularly for countries with low spreads and long-term debt …
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We use the introduction of a U.S. commercial credit bureau to study when lenders adopt voluntary information sharing technology and the resulting consequences for competition and credit access. Our results suggest that lenders trade off access to new markets against heightened competition for...
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Cyclical systemic risk arises when macro-financial imbalances accumulate over time. Past financial crises which … occurred in several countries around the world have shown that heightened cyclical risk can lead to exorbitant economic and … indicator for cyclical risk for Malta developed by the Central Bank of Malta. This paper addresses this gap by building a …
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Digital payments have increasingly been adopted by consumers and firms in Latin America and the Caribbean. This policy research paper analyzes recent post-pandemic data on digital payments in the region to describe adoption patterns, measure adoption gaps, and identify adoption barriers. The...
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We develop distress prediction models for non-financial small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) using a dataset from eight European countries over the period 2000-2009. We examine idiosyncratic and systematic covariates and find that macro conditions and bankruptcy codes add predictive power...
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We show that lenders join a U.S. commercial credit bureau when information asymmetries between incumbents and entrants create an adverse selection problem that hinders market entry. Lenders also delay joining when information asymmetries protect them from competition in existing markets,...
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Financial inclusion is strikingly low in emerging economies. In only a few years, financial technologies (fintech) have led to a dramatic expansion in the number of non-traditional credit intermediaries, but the macroeconomic and credit-market implications of this rapid growth of fintech are not...
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