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We present a quantitative model of deposit insurance. We characterize the policymaker's optimal choices of coverage for depositors and premiums raised from banks. Premiums contribute to a deposit insurance fund that lowers taxpayers' resolution cost of bank failures. We find that riskadjusted...
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secured and unsecured markets following an adverse shock to credit risk. The scarcity of underlying collateral may amplify the … crisis ; Interbank market ; Liquidity ; Credit risk ; Collateral …
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We show that the liquidation value of collateral depends on who is pledging it. We employ transaction-level data on … collateral that they pledge. The premium in corporate loan markets amounts to 25 basis points. Our results imply that liquidation … value contains a component at the borrower-collateral level, and that lenders monitor and price-in the interdependency …
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the credit risk of their corporate loan portfolios when the latter are used as collateral in the Eurosystem's monetary … actually used as Eurosystem collateral, particularly for large loans. The less conservative estimates of risk by IRBs relative … findings suggest the existence of a collateral-related channel through which the use of IRB ratings may influence the internal …
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How do housing bubbles affect other economic sectors? We show that in the presence of collateral constraints, a bubble …
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credit via revaluation of collateral and subsequent lending decisions. Specifically we examine banks' treatment of real … estate collateral during the Covid-19 crisis. First we find evidence of significant frictions in the transmission of asset … price dynamics to collateral values. Despite this we find that lending relationships reliant on real estate collateral …
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The paper analyses the relationship between deposit insurance, debt-holder monitoring, and risk taking. In a stylised banking model we show that deposit insurance may reduce moral hazard, if deposit insurance credibly leaves out non-deposit creditors. Testing the model using EU bank level data...
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This paper tests financial contagion due to interbank linkages. For identification we exploit an idiosyncratic, sudden shock caused by a large-bank failure in conjunction with detailed data on interbank exposures. First, we find robust evidence that higher interbank exposure to the failed bank...
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The paper shows that mispriced deposit insurance and capital regulation were of second order importance in determining the capital structure of large U.S. and European banks during 1991 to 2004. Instead, standard cross-sectional determinants of non-financial firms' leverage carry over to banks,...
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Does the level of deposits matter for bank fragility and efficiency? In a banking model with endogenous bank runs and a consumption-saving decision, we show that the level of deposits has opposite effects on bank fragility depending on the nature of bank runs. In an economy with panic-driven...
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