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We study determinants of sovereign portfolios of Spanish banks over a long time-span, starting in 2008. Our findings challenge the view that banks engaged in moral hazard strategies to exploit the regulatory treatment of sovereign exposures. In particular, we show that being a weakly capitalized...
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creditors in 2012 was a “unique and exceptional” event, never, ever to be repeated in any other Eurozone country. Maybe so. But … by the problem of non-participating creditors -- holdouts. Indeed, it is the undisguised fear of holdouts and the … creditors of Eurozone countries receiving bailouts (the belated Greek restructuring being the sole exception).This article …
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Wealth transfer effects between stockholders and bondholders on the announcement date of changes in a firm's credit rating have primarily been examined a) for one type of security; b) on US capital markets; and c) by applying standard event study methods. In contrast to these investigations, we...
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The federal-state system of unemployment insurance (UI) in the United States was established by the Social Security Act of 1935 during the Great Depression. Under the program, states provide temporary partial wage replacement to involuntarily unemployed workers with significant labor force...
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, because the transfers are based on changes in world trade in the various sectors. These changes can be considered as largely … manipulation. Our scheme works as follows: if a sector is hit by a bad shock at the world market level, then a country with an … addition, since transfers are based on temporary changes in world trade, the danger of permanent transfers from one set of …
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