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Crisis (GFC) and whether operational efficiency is related to shareholder value creation in informationally efficient stock … markets. The impact of GFC on bank efficiency and shareholder value creation is assessed for 29 large banks in the USA, UK … bank efficiency and shareholder value during 2008-09. A significant relationship between profit efficiency and shareholder …
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We explore empirically how the time-varying allocation of credit across firms with heterogeneous credit quality matters for financial stability outcomes. Using firm-level data for 55 countries over 1991-2016, we show that the riskiness of credit allocation, captured by Greenwood and Hanson...
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Today we live in a post-truth and highly digitalized era characterized by a flow of (mis-) information around the world. Identifying the impact of this information on stock markets and forecasting stock returns and volatilities has become a much more difficult task, perhaps almost impossible....
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Die Vorstellung selbst-stabilisierender, zum Gleichgewicht tendierender Finanzmärkte, lange Zeit als Selbstverständlichkeit angesehen, ist durch die aktuelle Banken- und Kreditkrise in Frage gestellt. Trotz ausgefeilten Risikomanagements der Banken und einer an Basel II orientierten Aufsicht...
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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the US Federal Reserve almost doubled its balance sheet by adding $3 trillion of assets (13% of GDP) in the space of three months, constituting the most aggressive unconventional monetary policy on record. We show that these actions had a substantial effect...
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business risk of asset managers acts as strong motivation for institutional herding and ‘rational bubble-riding.' Two key …
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This paper presents a diagnostic of the source of financial shocks (idionsyncratic country specific versus common fundamental), which is robust to a range of forms of crisis propagation across markets. Size and power characteristics of the test appear strong. An application of the proposed test...
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late 1600s. We focus on the frequency distribution of a range of key macro-financial risk factors that are commonly … historical distributions of macro-financial risk factors might serve as inspiration for design of sensitivity tests and "worst … case" scenarios in risk management and macro stress tests. …
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Foreign banks pulled signifi cant funding from their U.S. branches during the Great Recession. We estimate that the average-sized branch experienced a 12 percent net internal fund "withdrawal," with the fund transfer disproportionately bigger for larger branches. This internal shock to the...
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