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the sovereign risk is sufficiently high, low-capital banks reduce private lending to further increase their holdings of …
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What is the effect of financial crises and their resolution on banks' choice of liquidity? When banks have relative expertise in employing risky assets, the market for these assets clears only at fire-sale prices following a large number of bank failures. The gains from acquiring assets at...
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Time-inconsistency of no-bailout policies can create incentives for banks to take excessive risks and generate endogenous crises when the government cannot commit. However, at the outbreak of financial problems, usually the government is uncertain about their nature, and hence it may delay...
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excess liquidity and bank risk-taking as well as explores its stronger impact in countries severely affected by the 2008 … bank risk-taking. The study also finds that the attenuating effect of EPU on the relationship between excess liquidity and … bank risk-taking is stronger in countries that were most severely affected by the GFC. It argues that the mechanisms by …
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What is the impact of policy interventions on the systemic risk of banks? To answer this question, we analyze a …-affected European banks between 2005 and 2014. We find a positive and significant association of 'guarantees' with systemic risk, which … different for large banks. 'Liquidity injections' are similarly positively linked with systemic risk, but the long run effect is …
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In order to address the risk of systemic crises it is of paramount importance to have advance information about banks … actual observation of tail risk events. Interestingly, we find that estimated tail risk exposures for U.S. Bank Holding … actually more crisis prone. We also study the determinants of banks' tail risk exposures and find that their key drivers are …
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This study explores whether and how bank characteristics affect general risk-taking and tail risk of Too … contagion risk to the real economy. Regulations designed to limit tail risk, such as raising core capital, do not lower banks …’ general risk-taking, especially for TBTF banks. Furthermore, after the Global Financial Crisis, tail risk becomes more …
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This paper identifies the main dimensions of capital regulation. We use survey data from 142 countries from the World Bank’s (2013) database covering various aspects of bank regulation. Using multiple explorative factor analysis, we identify two main dimensions of capital regulation:...
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This paper discusses the economic impact of the Basel III reforms to banking regulation. We find that the long-term impact should be much less than many in the industry fear but the required accompanying changes to business models, business processes and governance, need to be carefully managed...
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We study banks' optimal equity buffer in general equilibrium and their response to under-capitalization. Making progress towards a "pecking order theory" for private recapitalizations, our benchmark model identifies equity issuance as individually and socially optimal, compared to deleveraging,...
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