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Over the past two decades, Germany experienced several periods of banking system instability rather than full-blown banking system crises. In this paper we introduce a continuous and forward-looking stability indicator for the banking system based on information on all financial institutions in...
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We characterize empirically the financial cycle using two approaches: analysis of turning points and frequency-based filters. We identify the financial cycle with the medium-term component in the joint fluctuations of credit and property prices; equity prices do not fit this picture well. We...
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This article examines the spread of financialization in Germany before the financial crisis. It provides an up-to date overview on the literature on financialization and reviews which of the phenomena typically associated with financialization have emerged in Germany. In particular, the article...
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rents already. Thus our results suggest that in the bank-dominated financial system of Germany, in which banks intensely …
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not sufficiently restrain monopoly rents already. Thus, our results suggest that in Germany's bank-dominated financial …
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This paper estimates the exporter premium in bank lending. We examine credit relationships in Germany, covering all … bank characteristics, our results indicate that exporting firms take out loan s around 15 percent larger than those of non-exporters. …
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not sufficiently restrain monopoly rents already. Thus, our results suggest that in Germany's bank-dominated financial …
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Central Bank (ECB) on stock returns and volatilities of U.S. NYSE and German DAX listed commercial banks. We find that Fed … news has the most influence on both U.S. and German listed bank stocks and an unexpected policy rate increase (decrease …) lowers (raises) returns and raises volatility in the majority of cases. On the other hand, ECB news generally increases bank …
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We compute optimally diversified international asset portfolios for banks located in France, Germany, Italy, the U.K., and the U.S., using the mean-variance portfolio model with currency hedging. We compare these benchmark portfolios to the actual cross-border asset positions of banks from...
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Exploiting a granular dataset of banks' security holdings I assess the impact of unconventional monetary policy on bank … bank constant at its level in January 2014, well in advance of an anticipation of the ECB's asset purchase program (APP … data on bank-specific TLTRO uptakes, my results do not seem to be driven by alternative, liquidity-driven transmission …
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