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The critical role played by financial institutions in the recent financial crises has generated renewed interest on the corporate finance of the banking firm and the impact of the banking sector on the real economy. This paper introduces the special issue of the Review of Financial Studies...
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imbalances, banking regulation, and competition in financial services. …
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We develop a model in which asset commonality and short-term debt of banks interact to generate excessive systemic risk. Banks swap assets to diversify their individual risk. Two asset structures arise. In a clustered structure, groups of banks hold common asset portfolios and default together....
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This introduces the symposium on financial economics.
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Most analyses of banking crises assume that banks use real contracts but in practice contracts are nominal. We consider a standard banking model with aggregate return risk, aggregate liquidity risk and idiosyncratic liquidity shocks. With non-contingent nominal deposit contracts, a decentralized...
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subsidiaries. Our findings are consistent with the studies that document that parent bank fragility negatively affects lending by … subsidiaries. We further find that reduction in foreign bank lending is stronger for those that are dependent on the interbank … market. Moreover, foreign bank lending is determined by different factors in emerging markets and in developed countries …
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We develop a model where financial institutions swap projects in order to diversify their individual risk. This can lead to two different asset structures. In a clustered structure groups of financial institutions hold identical portfolios and default together. In an unclustered structure...
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increased their credit supply prior to the crisis, they reduced their lending activities during the crisis. Additionally, we … subsidiaries during the financial crisis of 2008. Our results demonstrate that a subsidiary's reduction in lending is strongly … related to its parent bank's lending via the interbank market. While subsidiaries that were dependent on interbank financing …
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The financial crisis has generated fundamental reforms in the financial regulatory system in the U.S. and internationally. Much of this reform was in direct response to the weaknesses revealed in the precrisis system. The new “macroprudential” approach to financial regulations focuses on...
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banks for the period 1994- 2010. Our analysis shows that foreign banks provided credit during domestic banking crises in … host countries, while government-owned banks contracted. In contrast, foreign-owned banks reduced their credit base during …
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