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of bail-outs. Raising public funds to conduct a bail-out entails the deadweight loss of distortionary taxation. Bank bail … domestic bank failures may be contemporaneous to sovereign crises, giving rise to risk-sharing motives to mutualize the funding … the public backstop and forbearance in early bank intervention in the fiscally stronger country, facilitating bail-outs in …
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direct role of IT adoption in strengthening bank resilience; these include instrumental variable estimates exploiting the …
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This paper studies leverage regulation and monetary policy when equity investors and/or creditors have distorted beliefs relative to a planner. We characterize how the optimal leverage regulation responds to arbitrary changes in investors' and creditors' beliefs and relate our results to...
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Do politics matter for macroprudential policy? I show that changes to macroprudential regulation exhibit a predictable electoral cycle in the run-up to 221 elections across 58 countries from 2000 through 2014. Policies restricting mortgages and consumer credit are systematically less likely to...
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, in the context of the eurozone periphery, the increase in domestic government bond holdings, the reduction of bank credit …
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The Irish banking system has in recent years experienced a large build-up in Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) during the crisis followed by a sharp reduction in the 2013-2017 period. In this article I present a recent history of the ongoing resolution of the mortgage arrears crisis in Ireland. Using...
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Procyclicality of collateral haircuts and margins has become a widely proclaimed behavior and is currently discussed not only by academic literature but also by regulatory authorities in Europe. Procyclicality of haircuts is assumed to be a trigger of liquidity spirals due to its tightening...
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Using household survey data, we document evidence of a loosening of credit standards in Euro area countries that experienced a property price boom-and-bust cycle. Borrowers in these countries exhibited significantly higher loan-to-value (LTV) and loan-to-income (LTI) ratios in the run up to the...
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This paper analyzes the effect of bank recapitalizations on lending, funding and asset quality of European banks …
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connectivity may destabilize the financial system via the bank-run channel. This is because it decreases the risk-sharing benefits … of interbank connectivity. A bank-run model features two islands that are connected via a long term debt claim. Varying … the size of this claim (interbank connectivity), I study how the decision to 'run on the bank' is affected. I run a …
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