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This paper investigates how interbank credit exposures affect financial stability. Policy makers often see such exposures as undermining stability by exacerbating cascading losses through the financial system. I develop a model that features a trade-off between cascading losses and risk-sharing....
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Using detailed data from Canada's new high-value payment system (HVPS), we show how participants of the system save liquidity by exploiting the new gridlock resolution arrangement. These observed behaviors are consistent with the equilibrium of a "gridlock game" that captures the key incentives...
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We use payments data for the period 2006-09 to study the impact of the global financial crisis on payment patterns in CHAPS, the United Kingdom's large-value wholesale payments system. CHAPS functioned smoothly throughout the crisis and all CHAPS settlement banks continued to meet their payment...
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This paper distinguishes hedging from speculative derivative usage by U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs). This is … components of the Cleveland Fed Financial Stress Index, and off-balance sheet derivatives. Our results indicate that BHCs with … credit derivatives to reduce their risk exposure to these financial stresses. Additionally, positively exposed BHCs that use …
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