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We show that systemic risk in the banking sector breeds macroeconomic uncertainty. We develop a model of a production …-driven uncertainty amplifies business cycle volatility and increases risk premia on asset prices. A countercyclical capital buffer lowers …
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We find evidence that the Federal Reserve stress tests (CCAR and DFAST) produce information about the stress-tested firms as well as other, non-stress-tested banking companies. Although standard event studies do not always show abnormal returns for the stress-tested sample on average, we argue...
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We examine, conditional on structural shocks, the macroeconomic performance of different countercyclical capital buffer (CCyB) rules in small open economy estimated medium scale DSGE. We find that rules based on the credit gap create a trade-off between the stabilization of fluctuations...
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sense that repo lending increases with risk, while spreads, maturities, and haircuts remain stable. Our comparison across …
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Has economic research been helpful in dealing with the financial crises of the early 2000s? On the whole, the answer is negative, although there are bright spots. Economists have largely failed to predict both crises, largely because most of them were not analytically equipped to understand...
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Using a unique bank-level dataset, we assess the impact of the Term Auction Facility program on bank liquidity risk … control for potential selection bias. On average, TAF banks exhibit higher ex ante levels of liquidity risk and they … drastically reduce funding liquidity risk in the periods after the rst time they received TAF funds. TAF banks show larger …
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We study the effects of interest rate shocks (IRS) on banks’ liquidity creation. A unique supervisory data set from the Deutsche Bundesbank allows identifying banks’ liquidity creation for the real economy and the effects of banking market competition. Here, we employ a novel approach to...
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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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The U.S. financial system faces a major, growing, and much under-appreciated threat from the Federal Reserve's risk … requirements — the capital “buffers” to be set aside so banks can withstand adverse events and remain solvent.Risk models are … gaming and often blind to major risks. They have difficulty handling market instability and tend to generate risk forecasts …
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This article discusses some policy options that central banks may find useful in dealing with climate change risk in … studies that suggest policy solutions to help central banks and other financial sector regulators deal with the risk that … change capital surcharge; impose a fixed-rate risk capital - based on Tier 2 capital; a reduction in lending to industries …
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