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This essay, after highlighting the unique aspects of financial markets, offers a mostly rational account for financial crises, centering on the 2008 crisis as an example. Market participants may overestimate the duration of high productivity growth due to new technologies and produce occasional...
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Lehman's bankruptcy has triggered calls for new approaches to rescuing systemically important institutions. This essay assesses and confirms the need for a new approach. It identifies the inadequacies of the Bankruptcy Code and advocates an approach modeled on the current regime governing...
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Investment banks are in the business of taking calculated risks. Risk management infrastructure facilitates the safe … pursuit of profits and the balancing of associated risks. By 2006, Lehman Brothers was thought to have a very respectable risk … management system, and even its regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission, viewed its risk framework as being fully …
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By treating derivatives and financial repurchase agreements much more favorably than it treats other financial vehicles, American bankruptcy law subsidizes these arrangements relative to other financing channels. By subsidizing them, the rules weaken market discipline during ordinary financial...
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provided liquidity against a range of assets during 2008-09. Dealers with lower equity returns and greater leverage prior to … liquidity in explaining dealer behavior. The results suggest that both financial performance and balance sheet liquidity play a …
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, whilst removing credit risk transmission, systematically increase default risk …
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We survey the empirical evidence on corporate survival and its determinants in European emerging markets. We demonstrate that (i) institutional quality is a significant preventive factor for firm survival in all sectors of the economy, which holds for small, medium and large firms alike. On the...
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lending generates bank asset returns with limited upside but significant downside risk. The asymmetric distribution of these …
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