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Gambling for Resurrection in Iceland : The Rise and Fall of the Banks
Baldursson, Fridrik Mar - 2013
crisis of October 2008, when all three major banks in Iceland collapsed in three successive days. The country is still … of Iceland (CBI) saw the systemic risks created by lending to owners and related parties, which increased greatly from … countries had the resources to bail out their irresponsible and illiquid banks, Iceland did not, and it received little foreign …
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Eight years later and image is still hurting : long-term effects of the Icelandic banking crisis unfolding
Thorhallur Gudlaugsson; Friðrik Larsen - In: Journal of international business and economics : JIBE 16 (2016) 4, pp. 39-46
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Bank's financial distress, lending supply and consumption expenditure
Damar, H. Evren; Gropp, Reint; Mordel, Adi - 2013
The paper employs a unique identification strategy that links survey data on household consumption expenditure to bank level data in order to estimate the effects of bank financial distress on consumer credit and consumption expenditures. Specifically, we show that households whose banks were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226536
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Banks' financial distress, lending supply and consumption expenditure
Damar, H. Evren; Gropp, Reint; Mordel, Adi - 2014
We employ a unique identification strategy linking survey data on household consumption expenditure to bank-level data to estimate the effects of bank financial distress on consumer credit and consump- tion expenditures. We show that households whose banks were more exposed to funding shocks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012061065
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Bank lending procyclicality and credit quality during financial crises
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Di Colli, Stefano; Lopez, … - 2013
This paper analyses macroeconomic and financial determinants of bad loans applying a SVAR approach to investigate whether excessive loans granted during expansionary phases can explain the more than proportional increase in non-performing loans during contractionary periods. The results indicate...
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Bank Fragility and the Financial Crisis - Evidence from the U.S. Dual Banking System
Rauch, Christian - 2011
This paper compares the stability of the U.S. Dual Banking system's two bank groups, national and state banks, in light of the global financial crisis 2007/2008. The goal of the paper is to answer three distinct questions: first, is there a difference in the (balance sheet-) fragility between...
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Drivers of Systemic Banking Crises : The Role of Bank-Balance-Sheet Contagion and Financial Account Structure
Ahrend, Rudiger - 2012
This paper examines whether the composition of a country's external liabilities and assets has an incidence on its risk of suffering financial turmoil. Particular emphasis is put on the role of international financial integration, using newly-constructed measures of contagion shocks. These new...
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Banking Bubbles and Financial Crisis
Miao, Jianjun - 2012
This paper develops a macroeconomic model with a banking sector in which banks face endogenous borrowing constraints. There is no uncertainty about economic fundamentals. Banking bubbles can emerge through a positive feedback loop mechanism. Changes in household confidence can cause the collapse...
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Predicting Distress in European Banks
Betz, Frank - 2013
The paper develops an early-warning model for predicting vulnerabilities leading to distress in European banks using both bank and country-level data. As outright bank failures have been rare in Europe, the paper introduces a novel dataset that complements bankruptcies and defaults with state...
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Banks' Trading after the Lehman Crisis : The Role of Unconventional Monetary Policy
Podlich, Natalia - 2017
Based on a detailed trade-level dataset, we analyze the proprietary trading behavior of German banks in the months directly preceding and following the Lehman collapse in September 2008. The default of Lehman Brothers was a shock to the German banking system that was both unexpected and...
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