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Banks' risk-taking within a banking union

Farnè, Matteo; Vouldis, Angelos - 2021

We study the relationship between banks' size and risk-taking in the context of supranational banking supervision. Consistently with theoretical work on banking unions and in contrast to analyses emphasising incentives under- pinned by the too-big-to-fail effect, we find an inverse relationship...

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Debt overhang, rollover risk, and corporate investment : evidence from the European crisis

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Laeven, Luc; Moreno, David - 2019

We quantify the role of financial factors behind the sluggish post-crisis performance of European firms. We use a firm-bank-sovereign matched database to identify separate roles for firm and bank balance sheet weaknesses arising from changes in sovereign risk and aggregate demand conditions. We...

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Does it pay to have the euro? : Italy's politics and financial markets under the lira and the euro

Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - 2009

's prosperity. The paper focuses on political events in Italy over the past 35 years and asks whether the adoption of the euro in …'s financial markets throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The introduction of the euro appears to have indeed played a major role … interesting for other countries with weak institutions considering adopting a currency based on stronger institutions. -- Euro …

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Should larger reserve holdings be more diversified?

Beck, Roland; Weber, Sebastian - 2010

The notable increase in international reserve holdings over the past decade and their use during the global financial crisis of 2008/2009 has sparked renewed interest in the analysis of the optimal level of reserve holdings, in particular in countries which are subject to sudden stops. Less...

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Stigma? What stigma? : a contribution to the debate on financial market effects of IMF lending

Scheubel, Beatrice; Tafuro, Andrea; Vonessen, Benjamin - 2018

In the policy debate on the effectiveness of the Global Financial Safety Net, concerns have been raised that expectations of adverse effects of IMF programmes may deter countries from asking for an IMF programme when they need one, a form of "IMF stigma". We explore the existence of IMF...

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Once bitten : new evidence on the link between IMF conditionality and IMF stigma

Andone, Irina; Scheubel, Beatrice - 2019

While the consequences and effectiveness of IMF conditionality have long been the focus of research, the possible negative impact of IMF conditionality on countries' willingness to ask for an IMF programme - often termed "IMF stigma" - has recently received attention particularly from policy...

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Financial imbalances and financial fragility

Boissay, Frédéric - 2011

This paper develops a general equilibrium model to analyze the link between financial imbalances and financial crises. The model features an interbank market subject to frictions and where two equilibria may (co-)exist. The normal times equilibrium is characterized by a deep market with highly...

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The global capital flows cycle : structural drivers and transmission channels

Habib, Maurizio Michael; Venditti, Fabrizio - 2019

In this paper, we study the effects of structural shocks that influence global risk - the main factor behind a "global capital flows cycle" - and how risk, in turn, is transmitted to capital flows. Our results show that not all the risk shocks driving the global financial cycle have the same...

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Monetary policy and cross-border interbank market fragmentation : lessons from the crisis

Blattner, Tobias Sebastian; Swarbrick, Jonathan M. - 2018

We present a two-country model with an enhanced banking sector featuring risky lending and cross-border interbank market frictions. We find that (i) the strength of the financial accelerator, when applied to banks operating under uncertainty in an interbank market, will critically depend on the...

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Firm or bank weakness? : access to finance since the European sovereign debt crisis

Corbisiero, Giuseppe; Faccia, Donata - 2020

This paper uses a unique dataset where credit rejections experienced by euro area firms are matched with firm and bank … the euro area during the sovereign debt crisis, and in credit developments characterising the post-crisis recovery … representation of euro area firms of small and medium size. Our findings suggest that, while firm balance sheet factors have been …

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