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The Central European banking industry is dominated by foreign-owned banks. During the recent crisis, for the first time since the transition, foreign parent companies were frequently in worse financial conditions than their subsidiaries. This situation created a unique opportunity to study new...
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The Central European banking industry is dominated by foreign-owned banks. During the recent crisis, for the first time since the transition to a post-Communist era in this region, foreign parent companies were frequently in worse financial conditions than their subsidiaries. This situation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066416
This paper studies the relationship between liquidity demand risk, deposit diversification and insurance in 12 countries during the period 2005-2014. We capture liquidity risk by focusing on the unfunded loan commitments. We find that higher diversification in the deposit base can reduce the...
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We construct a new systemic risk measure that quantifies vulnerability to fire-sale spillovers using detailed regulatory balance sheet data for U.S. commercial banks and repo market data for broker-dealers. Even for moderate shocks in normal times, fire-sale externalities can be substantial. For...
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to provide a liquidity buffer that influences bank-specific loan growth positively (complementarity effect), particularly … in new banking regulation that penalise bank size …
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In this study we disentangle two dimensions of banks' systemic risk: the level of bank tail risk and the linkage … between a bank's tail risk and severe shocks in the financial system. We employ a measure of the systemic risk of financial … bank characteristics are related to bank tail risk and systemic linkage. The interrelationship between bank characteristics …
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Since the 2008 Financial Crisis, stress tests based on extreme-yet-plausible scenarios have become a preferred method of assessing risk for large financial institutions, yet scenario choice has largely been ad-hoc. We propose a principled methodology to choose scenarios by minimizing the...
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We review heterogeneous agent-based models of financial stability and their application in stress tests. In contrast to the mainstream approach, which relies heavily on the rational expectations assumption and focuses on situations where it is possible to compute an equilibrium, this approach...
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The UBS- Credit Suisse (CS) merger in March 2023, one of the biggest banking unions in history, was an emergency rescue deal engineered by Swiss authorities to avoid more market-shaking turmoil in global banking. The merger resulted in a significant increase in the combined stakeholder net...
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I study the relation between shadow banking and financial stability in an economy in which banks are susceptible to self-fulfilling runs and in which government-backed deposit insurance is limited. Shadow banks issue only uninsured deposits while commercial banks issue both insured and uninsured...
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