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In recent years, assets of non-bank financial intermediaries (NBFIs) have grown significantly relative to those of …. We argue instead that NBFI and bank businesses and risks are so interwoven that they are better described as having … contingent liquidity risk from the provision of credit lines to NBFIs; and (iii) Empirical work confirms bank-NBFI linkages …
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This paper is an attempt to explain the changes to finance sector reforms under the Dodd-Frank Act in the United States and Basel III requirements globally; their unintended consequences; and lessons for currently fast-growing emerging markets concerning finance sector reforms, government...
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The U.S. bank stress tests aim to improve financial system stability. However, they may also affect bank credit supply …
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We provide evidence consistent with a “credit-line drawdown channel” to explain the large and persistent crash of bank … lending, even after stabilization policies and even if drawdowns were accompanied by deposit inflows. Bank provision of credit … incorporated tractably into bank capital stress tests …
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of central bank balance sheets involves tradeoffs between monetary policy and financial stability …
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We address the paradox that financial innovations aimed at risk-sharing appear to have made the world riskier. Financial innovations facilitate hedging idiosyncratic risks among agents; however, aggregate risks can be hedged only with liquid assets. When risk-sharing is primitive, agents...
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Banks' leverage choices represent a delicate balancing act. Credit discipline argues for more leverage, while balance-sheet opacity and ease of asset substitution argue for less. Meanwhile, regulatory safety nets promote ex post financial stability, but also create perverse incentives for banks...
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widespread stress, with adverse affects on bank intermediation thereafter. We discuss the bank capital and the bank funding … conclude by discussing the increasing extension of bank credit lines to non-bank financial intermediaries, as well as the role …
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protection selling in CDS, the effect being weaker when sovereign risk is high. Bank and country risk variables are mostly not … building a complete picture and understanding fully the economic drivers of the bank-sovereign nexus of risk …
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