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Explaining bank failures in the United States: The role of self-fulfilling prophecies, systemic risk, banking regulation, and contagion

Herger, Nils - 2008

Using count data on the number of bank failures in US states during the 1960 to 2006 period, this paper endeavors to establish how far sources of economic risk (recessions, high interest rates, inflation) or differences in solvency and branching regulation can explain some of the fragility in...

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The Failure of Northern Rock: A multi-dimensional Case Study

Congdon, Tim; Goodhart, Charles A.E.; Eisenbeis, Robert A. - 2009

In August 2007 the United Kingdom experienced its first bank run in over 140 years. Although Northern Rock was not a particularly large bank (it was at the time ranked 7th in terms of assets) it was nevertheless a significant retail bank and a substantial mortgage lender. In fact, ten years...

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Estimating the shape of economic crises under heterogeneity

Dovern, Jonas; Jannsen, Nils - 2009

During the ongoing financial crisis the analysis of similar historical crises has gained more and more attention among economic researchers and forecasters. Existing studies, however, do not tackle the immense heterogeneity that is present in cross-country samples in a formal and consistent way....

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Banking-on-the-Average Rules

Gersbach, Hans; Hahn, Volker - 2009

In this paper, we argue for a regulatory framework under which a bank’s required level of equity capital depends on the equity capital of its peers. Such bankingon- the-average rules are transparent and could also be combined with the current regulatory framework. In addition, we argue that...

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The Cypriot precedent

Valiante, Diego - In: Intereconomics 48 (2013) 3, pp. 134-135

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Banking and markets

Franklin, Allen; Gale, Douglas - 2001

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Capital Regulation and Tail Risk

Perotti, Enrico; Ratnovski, Lev; Vlahu, Razvan - 2011

The paper studies risk mitigation associated with capital regulation, in a context when banks may choose tail risk assets. We show that this undermines the traditional result that higher capital reduces excess risk-taking driven by limited liability. When capital raising is costly, poorly...

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A Tale of Three Countries: Recovery after Banking Crises

Darvas, Zsolt - 2012

Iceland, Ireland and Latvia experienced similar developments before the crisis, such as sharp increases in banks' balance sheets and the expansion of the construction sector. However the impact of the crisis was different: Latvia was hit harder than any other country in the world. Ireland also...

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Global steam coal supply costs in the face of Chinese infrastructure investment decisions

Paulus, Moritz; Trueby, Johannes - 2010

long run marginal costs of supply for Europe and the US but significant effects for China. … marginal costs of steam coal supply in Europe. Increasing Chinese demand for steam coal will lead to a growing need for … additional domestic infrastructure in China as production hubs and demand centers are spatially separated. If domestic transport …

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Reputational contagion and optimal regulatory forbearance

Morrison, Alan D.; White, Lucy - 2010

This paper examines common regulation as cause of interbank contagion. Studies based on the correlation of bank assets and the extent of interbank lending may underestimate the likelihood of contagion because they do not incorporate the fact that banks have a common regulator. In our model, the...

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