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Securitization, deregulation, economic stability, and financial crisis

Tymoigne, Éric (contributor) - 2009

This study analyzes the trends in the financial sector over the past 30 years, and argues that unsupervised financial innovations and lenient government regulation are at the root of the current financial crisis and recession. Combined with a long period of economic expansion during which...

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Lessons from international central counterparties : benchmarking and analysis

Lazarow, Alexandre - 2011

Since the financial crisis, attention has focused on central counterparties (CCPs) as a solution to systemic risk for a variety of financial markets, ranging from repurchase agreements and options to swaps. However, internationally accepted standards and the academic literature have left...

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Real estate and the great crisis : lessons for macro-prudential policy

Duca, John V.; Popoyan, Lilit; Wachter, Susan M. - 2016

From a broad macro-financial structure perspective, overly easy credit conditions gave rise to house price booms and busts in several advanced economies (e.g., Ireland, Spain, and the U.S.), and, more specifically in the U.S., an underpricing of risk made possible by regulatory arbitrage and...

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Can financial soundness indicators help predict financial sector distress?

Pietrzak, Marcin - 2021

This paper shows how the role of Financial Soundness Indicators (FSIs) in financial surveillance can be usefully enhanced. Drawing from different statistical techniques, the paper illustrates that FSIs generate signals that can accurately detect, with 4 to 12 quarters lead, emerging financial...

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Bank ownership around the world

Panizza, Ugo - 2023

This paper builds a dataset on bank ownership that covers more than 6,500 banks in 181 countries (59 low … reversed these trends. At the country level, the relationship between bank ownership and each of GDP growth and financial depth …. Bank-level regressions show that state-owned banks are less profitable and have a higher share of non-performing loans than …

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Financial stability committees and the countercyclical capital buffer

Edge, Rochelle M.; Liang, Jean Nellie - 2020

CCyB, especially relative to countries where a bank regulator or the central bank has the authority to set the CCyB. While …

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Regulating the financial cycle : an integrated approach with a leverage ratio

Schoenmaker, Dirk; Wierts, Peter - 2015

We propose a regulatory approach for restricting debt financing as an amplification mechanism across the financial system. A small stylised model illustrates the trade-off between static and time varying limits on leverage in dampening the financial cycle. The policy section proposes its...

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Asset encumbrance, bank funding and financial fragility

Ahnert, Toni; Anand, Kartik; Gai, Prasanna; Chapman, James - 2016

bank issues covered bonds backed by a pool of assets that is bankruptcy remote and replenished following losses …. Encumbering assets allows a bank to raise cheap secured debt and expand profitable investment, but it also concentrates risk on …

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Bank lending procyclicality and credit quality during financial crises

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Di Colli, Stefano; Lopez, … - 2013

This paper analyses macroeconomic and financial determinants of bad loans applying a SVAR approach to investigate whether excessive loans granted during expansionary phases can explain the more than proportional increase in non-performing loans during contractionary periods. The results indicate...

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Instabile Finanzmärkte

Franke, Günter; Krahnen, Jan Pieter - 2009

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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