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We compute optimally diversified international asset portfolios for banks located in France, Germany, Italy, the U.K., and the U.S., using the mean-variance portfolio model with currency hedging. We compare these benchmark portfolios to the actual cross-border asset positions of banks from...
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implications of these exposures for bank risk. Larger, more capital market affine, and less capitalised banks hold more sovereign … that riskiness of government bond holdings affects bank risk only since 2010.This confirms the existence of a nexus between … government debt and bank risk …
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sovereign debt exposures and the implications of sovereign exposures for bank risk. Our main findings are as follows. First … impact of sovereign bond holdings on bank risk. This result could indicate the widespread absence of marking-to-market for …
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strong impact on the degree of underinvestment whereas less political risk increases the degree of over-investment. …
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builds distribution risk into a real business cycle model, hypotheses on the determinants of the relative volatility of … openness has no significant impact. -- Income volatility ; distribution risk ; real business cycles …
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This paper provides empirical evidence on the determinants of foreign activities of German banks. We use regionally disaggregated panel data for the years 1981-98 and distinguish foreign direct investment from total foreign assets of domestic banks, of their foreign branches and their...
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studies conducted in 11 countries to explore liquidity risk transmission. Among the main results is, first, that explanatory … power of the empirical model is higher for domestic lending than for international lending. Second, how liquidity risk … management across global banks can be important for liquidity risk transmission into lending. Fourth, there is substantial …
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