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Housing finance and monetary policy
Calza, Alessandro; Stracca, Livio; Monacelli, Tommaso - 2009
We study how the structure of housing finance affects the transmission of monetary policy shocks. We document three main facts: first, the features of residential mortgage markets differ markedly across industrialized countries; second, and according to a wide range of indicators, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003867073
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Government loan guarantees, market liquidity, and lending standards
Ahnert, Toni; Kuncl, Martin - 2022
We study third-party loan guarantees in a model in which lenders can screen, learn loan quality over time and can sell loans before maturity when in need of liquidity. Loan guarantees improve market liquidity and reduce lending standards, with a positive overall welfare effect. Guarantees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342211
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How far are we from the slippery slope? : the Laffer curve revisited
Trabandt, Mathias; Uhlig, Harald - 2010
We characterize the Laffer curves for labor taxation and capital income taxation quantitatively for the US, the EU-14 and individual European countries by comparing the balanced growth paths of a neoclassical growth model featuring "constant Frisch elasticity" (CFE) preferences. We derive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003972665
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Capital and labour (mis)allocation in the euro area : some stylized facts and determinants
Gamberoni, Elisa; Giordano, Claire; López-García, Paloma - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619922
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Bank mergers, competition and liquidity
Carletti, Elena; Hartmann, Philipp; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2003
We model the impact of bank mergers on loan competition, banks' reserve holdings and aggregate liquidity. Banks compete … in liquidity risk and expected liquidity needs for each bank and for the banking system. Large mergers tend to increase … expected aggregate liquidity needs, and thus the liquidity provision by the central bank. Comparative statics suggest that a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635892
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The euro area financial system
Hartmann, Philipp; Maddaloni, Angela; Manganelli, Simone - 2003
Four years after the introduction of the euro, this paper provides an overview of the current structure and integration of the euro area financial systems and related policy initiatives. We first compare the euro area financial structure with that of the United States and Japan. Using new and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635984
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Developing statistical indicators of the integration of the euro area banking system
Manna,Michele - 2004
This paper discusses a wide range of indicators of the degree of integration of the euro area banking system. It is concerned with volume data, a less developed field of research compared with studies on prices/rates. We first set out a methodological framework, a mixture of elementary and more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636523
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How does competition affect efficiency and soundness in banking? : new empirical evidence
Schaeck, Klaus (contributor); Čihák, Martin (contributor) - 2008
A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization … indeed increases bank efficiency. Second, building on these results, we examine the relation between the Boone indicator … bank soundness. We find evidence that competition robustly increases bank soundness, via the efficiency channel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003789457
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Euro area banking sector integration : using hierarchical cluster analysis techniques
Sørensen, Christoffer Kok (contributor);  … - 2006
In this study we apply cluster analysis techniques, including a novel smoothing method, to detect some basic patterns and trends in the euro area banking sector in terms of the degree of homogeneity of countries. We find that in the period 1998-2004 the banking sectors in the euro area countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003337152
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Bank loan announcements and borrower stock returns : does bank origin matter?
Ongena, Steven; Roscovan, Viorel - 2009
fact, the largest when the bank is foreign. Our evidence suggest that investors value relationships with more competitive … applicable also to the European markets where regulatory and economic borders do not coincide and bank identities and reputation … seem to matter a great deal. -- Relationship banking ; bank organization ; bank origin ; loan announcement return …
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