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Financial intermediaries issue the majority of liquid securities, and nonfinancial firms have become net savers, holding intermediaries' debt as cash. This paper shows that intermediaries' liquidity creation stimulates growth -- firms hold their debt for unhedgeable investment needs -- but also...
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We show that the transmission of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) recent monetary policy tightening differs across …
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As the euro area has a predominantly bank-based financial system, changes in the composition and strength of banks … crisis, in a context of financial market stress and weak bank balance sheets, unconventional monetary policy measures have … non-standard measures were successful in stimulating lending and which bank business models were more strongly affected …
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influenced by bank size and market share, and to a somewhat lesser extent by deposit rates and non-performing loans. In addition …. Furthermore, bank size and market share, as well as the differential between domestic and foreign rates, are the most important …
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I investigate how monetary policy transmits to mortgage rates via the mortgage market concentration channel for both traditional and shadow banks in the United States from 2009 to 2019. On average, shadow and traditional banks exhibit only a slight disparity in transmitting monetary shocks to...
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Switzerland. For identification, we compare changes in the behavior of banks that had different fractions of their central bank …
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We study the transmission of monetary policy through bank securities portfolios using granular supervisory data on U ….S. bank securities, hedging positions, and corporate credit. Banks that experienced larger losses on their securities during …
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This paper offers a simple theory of inefficiently lax financial regulation arising as an outcome of a democratic political process. Lax financial regulation encourages some banks to issue risky residential mortgages. In the event of an adverse aggregate housing shock, these banks fail. When...
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Zombie firms may adversely impact healthy firms through several transmission channels. Besides real spillover effects on productivity or investment, zombies may also cause negative financial spillover effects, where zombies receive credit at more favourable conditions than healthy firms. We...
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This paper sheds light on the functioning of internal capital markets by analysing money market transactions within the German cooperatives and savings banks finance groups. Using a unique dataset, the money market statistical reporting, this is the first paper to explicitly analyze the...
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