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Foreign currency loans to the unhedged non-banking sector are remarkably prevalent in Europe and create a significant … exchange-rate-induced credit risk to European banking sectors. In particular, Swiss franc (CHF)-denominated loans, popular in … that banks in Europe have continuously held more foreign-currency-denominated assets than liabilities, indicating their …
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bargaining power in default, operating in more competitive product markets, and facing lower credit supply are more likely to …
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ratio since the crisis reflects bottlenecks in the provision of bank credit and (2) the tightened loan supply has been more …
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ratio since the crisis reflects bottlenecks in the provision of bank credit and (2) the tightened loan supply has been more …
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Using a Bayesian vector autoregression (BVAR) identified with a mix of sign and zero restrictions, we show that a restrictive bank loan supply shock has a strong and persistent negative impact on real GDP and the GDP deflator. This result comes about even though flows of other sources of...
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When the debt of firms in distress is dispersed, a restructuring agreement is difficult to reach because of free riding. We develop a repeated game in which banks come across each other frequently, allowing them to threaten a punishment in case of free riding. As the number of lending banks...
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The concept of settlement balances is simple in its definition but complex when attempting to understand how they interplay between a central bank and the financial system. Settlement balances can be defined as interest-bearing deposits that belong to participants of Canada's payment system and...
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