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This paper argues that creditors reflect the financial-safety-net aspect of bank lobbying, plausibly considering the … connection between bank lobbying and government bailouts. Using a structural approach, I show that bank lobbying is negatively … associated with the occurrence of a run-like equilibrium, as is deposit insurance. The estimated effect on bank risk and value is …
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This paper investigates the real and financial effects of the largest government intervention in US history, the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), on individual firms. Firms borrowing from banks that participate in TARP increase long-term debt and have more cash holdings and working capital...
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The world has seen two major financial and economic crises in less than two decades, which have shaken investor confidence in the financial systems, resulted in tens of hundreds of billions of loss, and left behind dislocated societies in many regions. Everything started in the summer months of...
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On June 4-5, 2014, SUERF and Baffi Finlawmetrics jointly organised a Colloquium/Conference "Money, Regulation and Growth: Financing New Growth in Europe" at Bocconi University, Milan. The present SUERF Study includes a selection of papers based on the authors’ contributions to the Milan event....
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When financial regulators require banks to hold a higher ratio of equity capital to debt funding, banks incur short-term costs as they adjust their balance sheets and lose some of the advantages associated with their existing funding mix. They then seek to maintain post-tax income by, for...
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effective to increase bank resilience to sectoral risks, limiting spillover effects. LTI limits are superior to LTV limits in …
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This paper assesses the merits of countercyclical bank balance sheet regulation for the stabilization of financial and … equilibrium model with banks and bank capital, in which bank capital solves an asymmetric information problem between banks and …, though banks do not internalize this impact. Regulation, in the form of a constraint on bank leverage, can mitigate the …
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This paper studies the systemic risk contribution of a set of large publicly traded European banks. Over a sample covering the last twenty years and three di!erent crises, we "nd that all banks in our sample signi"cantly contribute to systemic risk. Moreover, larger banks and banks with a...
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' investment in complex assets. Complexity improves bank liquidity in good times but heightens vulnerability to runs during crises …
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