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Today we live in a post-truth and highly digitalized era characterized by a flow of (mis-) information around the world. Identifying the impact of this information on stock markets and forecasting stock returns and volatilities has become a much more difficult task, perhaps almost impossible....
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This paper investigates the propagation of instability through key asset markets of the US financial system - equity, real estate, banking and treasury - between 1/3/2000 and 12/26/2014. For this purpose, we develop an identification method to uncover characteristic financial market...
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17 advanced economies since 1870. The new data show that the share of mortgages on banks’ balance sheets doubled in the …
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- border lending after the Lehman failure; for banks headquartered in periphery countries, the impact is quantitatively …
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This paper proposes Spillover Persistence as a measure for financial fragility. The volatility paradox predicts that fragility builds up when volatility is low, which challenges existing measures. Spillover Persistence tackles this challenge by exploring a novel dimension of systemic risk: loss...
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Partisan conflict and policy uncertainty are frequently invoked as factors contributing to slow post-crisis recoveries. Recent events in Europe provide ample evidence that the political aftershocks of financial crises can be severe. In this paper we study the political fall-out from systemic...
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combination of a number of factors, such as banks following strict internal credit limits, investment incentives created by yield … liquidity that resulted also determined TARGET2 balances. At the individual bank level, when controlling for banks' capital, non … smaller and better-capitalised banks, and for banking groups with liquidity centralised at the head institution. In addition …
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A large set of financial variables has only limited power to predict a latent factor common to the year-ahead forecast errors for real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth, the unemployment rate, and Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation for three sets of professional forecasters: the Federal...
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combination of a number of factors, such as banks following strict internal credit limits, investment incentives created by yield … liquidity that resulted also determined TARGET2 balances.At the individual bank level, when controlling for banks' capital, non … smaller and better-capitalised banks, and for banking groups with liquidity centralised at the head institution. In addition …
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Historically high household debt in several economies is calling for a deleveraging, but according to some economists, this adjustment can slow GDP growth by weighing on consumption. Using a sample of advanced and emerging market economies, this paper finds evidence of a negative relationship...
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