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Mortgages constitute the largest part of household debt. An essential choice when taking out a mortgage is between …-country study has analyzed what determines household demand for mortgage types, a task that this paper takes up using new data for … how the easing of monetary policy during the financial crisis affected mortgage holders. It shows that the resulting …
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Mortgages constitute the largest part of household debt. An essential choice when taking out a mortgage is between …-country study has analyzed what determines household demand for mortgage types, a task that this paper takes up using new data for … exercise to identify how the easing of monetary policy during the financial crisis affected mortgage holders. It shows that the …
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"Subprime Cities: The Political Economy of Mortgage Markets presents a collection of works from social scientists that … offer important insights into what is happening in today's mortgage market including the causes, effects, and aftermath of … the 'subprime' mortgage crisis"-- …
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lending guidelines, and demand in housing construction and mortgage lending has plummeted. Against this background, the paper …
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In 2007 the world faced one of the biggest financial crises ever. It was the third important financial crisis in the last 12 years. Spillovers to the real economy and moral hazard behaviour of carpetbaggers resulted in enormous pressure on worldwide political institutions to approve a more...
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This paper explores the impacts of key policy actions by US and European authorities on stock returns of systemically important banks in Europe and US around the subprime crisis. We find that the US policy announcements had a stronger impact on the European and US banking industry than the...
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This paper analyses the evolution of the safety and soundness of the European banking sector during the various stages of the Basel process of capital regulation. In the first part we document the evolution of various measures of systemic risk as the Basel process unfolds. Most strikingly, we...
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This article focuses on the study of the impact of prudential banking regulations on the risk of bank failures in the Eurozone during the subprime financial crisis. Two indicators of bankruptcy risk measures are used:(i) the Z-score and (ii) the rating. The methodology adopted consists of making...
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This paper investigates the key role played by different factors, such as the use of Asset Backed Commercial Paper as collaterals in the short-term debt market, credit risk and the injection of liquidity by Central Banks through so-called unconventional measures, on the persistent spread during...
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