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The effect of financial crises on innovation is an unsettled and important question for economic growth, but one difficult to answer with modern data. Using a differences-in-differences design surrounding the Great Depression, we document that local distress caused by the Depression led to a...
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investigate how the structure of those networks can affect the capacity of regulators to assess the level of systemic risk. We … of systemic risk in terms of expected losses. We further quantify the effects of cyclicality, leverage, volatility and …
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We propose a new theory of systemic risk based on Knightian uncertainty (or "ambiguity"). We show that, due to … pessimistic about other asset classes as well. This means that idiosyncratic risk can create contagion and snowball into systemic … risk. Furthermore, in a Diamond and Dybvig (1983) setting, we show that, surprisingly, uncertainty aversion causes …
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Does higher policy uncertainty lead to higher financial risk for sure? This study shows an opposite evidence. Based on … large negative impact on the bank systemic risk, and the effect is more pronounced for small and unprofitable banks. Further … analysis shows that the decline in bank systemic risk is due to the lower similarity of asset and liability structure between …
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In the wake of the Global Financial Crisis, a significant research effort has been made to better understand the links between household debt levels, financial stability risks, and the ongoing implications of the ‘debt overhang’ for economic growth. However, accurately measuring the...
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We study the role of global media during the Greek debt crisis and relate it to the transmission of events on financial actors' expectations. To identify news coverage about the Greek debt crisis, we apply topic modeling to a newly compiled dataset of over 430,000 articles from The International...
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