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This paper analyses the dynamics of personal insolvencies in Germany and the UK, focusing on the recent recession. These countries are particularly interesting as they are both member countries of the European Union, yet have completely different approaches to deal with overindebted individuals....
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How does bank distress impact their customers' probability of default and trade credit availability? We address this question by looking at a unique sample of German firms from 2000 to 2011. We follow their firm-bank relationships through times of distress and crisis, featuring the different...
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We identify frictions in the market for liquidity as well as bank-specific and market-wide factors that affect the … prices that banks pay for liquidity, captured here by borrowing rates in repos with the central bank and benchmarked by the … liquidity. We find that the price a bank pays for liquidity depends on the liquidity positions of other banks, as well as its …
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This paper is the first attempt to assess the impact of official FOREX interventions of the three major central banks in terms of the dynamics of the currency components of the major exchange rates (EUR/USD and YEN/USD) over the period 1989-2003. We identify the currency components of the mean...
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-the-counter markets for liquidity in Germany: the interbank market for credit and for derivatives. We use end-of-quarter data from the …
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discussion of the actual implications for liquidity. In this paper, we provide an approximation of the liquidity development in … information about liquidity risk. …
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This paper examines how the bond supply, via primary auctions of the Treasury, influences price and liquidity in the … German Bund. The analysis of intraday quotes shows that there is also a peculiar liquidity effect due to the bond supply … capital constraints and information uncertainty. The sovereign bond crisis exacerbates the dry-up of liquidity for Italy and …
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We study the contribution of liquidity to time-series dynamics and cross-sectional variations of Euro area sovereign … crisis. Using intraday trade and quote data we construct several alternative liquidity measures and study their contribution … to yield preads. When we control for standard risk factors, such as credit and term, liquidity does not provide a …
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. Cross section fixed effects are applied to first differences and dummy variables. For liquidity and non-liquid assets the … liquidity ratios and creditor ratios decline when short-term ECB-rates fall. If ECB rates are negative, liquidity ratios are ….6% smaller, while liquidity ratios increased by 2.3 percentage points. Originality / value of the article: Papers on the …
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This paper investigates the causes behind the euro debt crisis, particularly Germany's role in it. It is argued that the crisis is not primarily a "sovereign debt crisis" but rather a (twin) banking and balance of payments crisis. Intra-area competitiveness and current account imbalances, and...
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