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previous research on the role of central banks as lenders of last resort in crises and on the real effects of bank lending and …
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previous research on the role of central banks as lenders of last resort in crises and on the real effects of bank lending and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958553
we find that a bank’s balance sheet characteristics can help to forecast its systemic importance and, as a result, may be …
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different combinations of bank asset and funding sources and assess their impact on the mortgage crisis. We then estimate how … distinct strategies have affected bank profitability and risk before the crisis, and what impact they have put on the mortgage …
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The spectacular failure of the 150-year old investment bank Lehman Brothers on September 15th, 2008 was a major turning … limited to the largest financial firms; (ii) the most affected institutions were the surviving “non-bank” financial services …
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Extensive regulatory changes and technological advances have transformed banking systems to a great extent. Banks have reacted to the challenges posed by the new operating environment by creating new products and expanding their activities to some uncharted business areas. In this paper, we...
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lead to excessive risk-taking. We examine the relation between deposit insurance and bank risk and systemic fragility in … the years leading up to and during the recent financial crisis. We find that generous financial safety nets increase bank … risk and systemic fragility in the years leading up to the global financial crisis. However, during the crisis, bank risk …
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the European Central Bank (ECB) and of the ESRB as far as macroprudential policy is concerned. In the conclusions, we …
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Understanding the nature of systemic risk and identifying the channels of diffusion of the shocks are the necessary prerequisite to anticipate and manage successfully the insurgence of financial crises. In order to prevent financial distress and manage instability, the macroprudential regulator...
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We examine the pricing of financial crash insurance during the 2007-2009 financial crisis in U.S. option markets. A large amount of aggregate tail risk is missing from the price of financial sector crash insurance during the financial crisis. The difference in costs of out-of-the-money put...
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