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This paper shows that an increase in the Fed funds rate is associated with an increase in banks' unrealized losses due to their held-to-maturity (HTM) portfolios. This exposes banks to large uninsured deposit withdrawals as the depositors seek a flight-to-safety and, at the same time, to a...
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Does democratization reduce the cost of credit? Using global syndicated loan data from 1984 to 2014, we find that democratization has a sizeable negative effect on loan spreads: a one-point increase in the zero-to-ten Polity IV index of democracy shaves at least 19 basis points off spreads, but...
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Comparing banks to non-bank lenders, we investigate whether the geographical distance between lenders, borrowers and … period. The difference in loan spread when bank-borrower distance increases from zero to the median of about 900 miles is 17 …, geographical distance does not seem to have any effect on the loan spread of mortgages granted by non-bank lenders. Moreover, loans …
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