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Finance and growth in the EU
De Ávila, Diego Romero - 2003
This paper analyses the link between finance and growth by studying the effect that the process of financial deregulation and harmonisation of banking laws at the EU level has brought about on growth over the last 40 years. Our main findings point to the existence of a positive long-run growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635911
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Deposit insurance, moral hazard and market monitoring
Gropp, Reint; Vesala, Jukka - 2004
The paper analyses the relationship between deposit insurance, debt-holder monitoring, and risk taking. In a stylised banking model we show that deposit insurance may reduce moral hazard, if deposit insurance credibly leaves out non-deposit creditors. Testing the model using EU bank level data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636525
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Bank mergers, competition and liquidity
Carletti, Elena; Hartmann, Philipp; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2003
We model the impact of bank mergers on loan competition, banks' reserve holdings and aggregate liquidity. Banks compete in a differentiated loan market, hold reserves against liquidity shocks, and refinance in the interbank market. A merger creates an internal money market that induces financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635892
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Cooperation in international banking supervision
Holthausen, Cornelia; Rønde, Thomas - 2004
This paper analyzes cooperation between sovereign national authorities in the supervision and regulation of a … multinational bank. We take a political economy approach to regulation and assume that supervisors maximize the welfare of their own … the countries are perfectly aligned, Þrst best closure regulation cannot be implemented; (2) the more aligned the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636539
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Bank risk-taking, securitization, supervision and low interest rates
Maddaloni, Angela; Peydró, José-Luis - 2010
securitization activity, weak supervision for bank capital and too low for too long monetary policy rates. Conversely, low long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640292
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The dark side of bank wholesale funding
Huang, Rocco; Ratnovski, Lev - 2010
Banks increasingly use short-term wholesale funds to supplement traditional retail deposits. Existing literature mainly points to the "bright side" of wholesale funding: sophisticated financiers can monitor banks, disciplining bad but refinancing good ones. This paper models a "dark side" of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640317
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Financial regulation, financial globalization and the synchronization of economic activity
Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Papaioannou, Elias; Peydró, … - 2010
We identify the effect of financial integration on international business cycle synchronization, by utilizing a confidential database on banks’ bilateral exposure and employing a country-pair panel instrumental variables approach. Countries that become more integrated over time have less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640319
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640344
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Credit supply
Jiménez, Gabriel; Ongena, Steven; Peydró, José-Luis; … - 2010
To identify credit availability we analyze the extensive and intensive margins of lending with loan applications and all loans granted in Spain. We find that during the period analyzed both worse economic and tighter monetary conditions reduce loan granting, especially to firms or from banks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640362
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The euro area Bank Lending Survey matters
Bondt, Gabe de; Maddaloni, Angela; Peydró, José-Luis; … - 2010
This study examines empirically the information content of the euro area Bank Lending Survey for aggregate credit and output growth. The responses of the lending survey, especially those related to loans to enterprises, are a significant leading indicator for euro area bank credit and real GDP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640399