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persistence of liquidity shocks. Following a theory of long-term interbank funding a financial system which is modeled as a micro …
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This paper studies the effects of harmonizing collateral policy in a monetary union. In 2007, the European Central Bank … replaced national collateral lists with a single list specifying which assets euro area banks can pledge as collateral. Banks … harmonized collateral framework facilitates cross-border lending to borrowing-constrained firms and, thereby, increases financial …
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This paper studies the effects of harmonizing collateral policy in a monetary union. In 2007, the European Central Bank … replaced national collateral lists with a single list specifying which assets euro area banks can pledge as collateral. Banks … harmonized collateral framework facilitates cross-border lending to borrowing-constrained firms and, thereby, increases financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013336407
Accommodative global liquidity conditions post-crisis have translated into low domestic borrowing costs and strong domestic credit growth, with household and corporate leverage trending upwards. Bank lending remains the predominant source of financing in Singapore, with cross-border and foreign...
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The fact that money, banking, and financial markets interact in important ways seems self-evident. The theoretical nature of this interaction, however, has not been fully explored. To this end, we integrate the Diamond (1997) model of banking and financial markets with the Lagos and Wright...
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We present a model of shadow banking in which banks originate and trade loans, assemble them into diversified portfolios, and finance these portfolios externally with riskless debt. In this model: outside investor wealth drives the demand for riskless debt and indirectly for securitization, bank...
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What configuration of asset returns will make the banking system most susceptible to a self-fulfilling run? I study this question in a version of the model of Diamond and Dybvig (1983) with limited commitment and a non-trivial portfolio choice. I show that the relationship between the returns on...
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We use a Diamond/Dybvig-based model with two banks operating in separate regions connected by a common asset market in which banks and sophisticated depositors invest. We study the effect of a potential run (crisis) and subsequent fire sales on the asset price in both the crisis and no-crisis...
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In the months preceding the failure of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, banks were willing to pay a premium over the Federal Reserve's discount window (DW) rate to participate in the much less flexible Term Auction Facility (TAF). We empirically test the predictions of a new signalling model...
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We provide a simple and tractable accounting-based stress-testing framework to assess loss dynamics in the banking sector, in a context of leverage targeting. Contagion can occur through direct interbank exposures, and indirect exposures due to overlapping portfolios with the associated price...
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