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We develop a dynamic structural model of bank behaviour that provides a microeconomic foundation for bank capital and liquidity structures and analyses the effects of changes in regulatory capital and liquidity requirements as well as their interaction. Our findings suggest that adjustments in...
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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 banks set their target capital ratio? How do they adjust to reach it? This paper answers these questions using an original dataset of capital ratio targets directly announced to investors by European banks, materially improving data quality compared to usual estimated implicit target. It...
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This paper addresses the trade-off between additional loss-absorbing capacity and potentially higher bank risk-taking associated with the introduction of the Basel III Leverage Ratio. This is addressed in both a theoretical and empirical setting. Using a theoretical micro model, we show that a...
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This paper investigates both the magnitude and the drivers of bank window dressing behaviour in euro-denominated repo markets. Using a confidential transaction-level data set, our analysis illustrates that banks engineer an economically sizeable contraction in their repo transactions around...
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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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We assess the quantitative implications of collateral re-use on leverage, volatility, and welfare within an infinite …-horizon asset-pricing model with heterogeneous agents. In our model, the ability of agents to reuse frees up collateral that can be …
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The paper studies the central bank collateral framework and its impact on banks' liquidity under an adverse stress test … significantly after the initial shock. We find evidence of a threshold in the benefits of expanding the collateral framework and … institutions can rely on the collateral framework channel. …
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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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