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Currently, private trust in commercial banks declines as a consequence of today´s financial crisis. As past crises, e … in a New Keynesian framework with commercial banks in order to analyze the implications of a loss of confidence. In …
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markets and financial institutions in business cycle models emerged. By modelling commercial banks as a third type of economic …
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Can central banks defuse rising stability risks in financial booms by leaning against the wind with higher interest …
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We provide new evidence on the bank lending channel of monetary policy using bank-level data of 440 banks from eleven … CEE transition economies between 1998 and 2012. Our findings are: i) banks adjust their loans to changes in host country …’s monetary policy, ii) foreign-owned banks are less responsive to monetary policy of a host country than domestic-owned banks in …
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We develop a model of rational bubbles based on the assumptions of unknown market liquidity and limited liability of traders. In a bubble, the price of an asset rises dynamically above its steady-state value, justified by rational expectations about future price developments. The larger the...
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Secondary markets for long-term assets might be illiquid due to adverse selection. In a model in which moral hazard is confined to project initiation, I find that: (1) when agents expect a liquidity dry-up on such markets, they optimally choose to self-insure through the hoarding of...
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This paper develops a two-country multi-frictional model where the freeze on liquidity access to commercial banks in …
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We develop a parsimonious model of bubbles based on the assumption of imprecisely known market depth. In a speculative bubble, traders drive the price above its fundamental value in a dynamic way, driven by rational expectations about future price developments. At a previously unknown date, the...
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We develop a model of rational bubbles based on leverage and the assumption of an imprecisely known maximum market size. In a bubble, traders push the asset price above its fundamental value in a dynamic way, driven by rational expectations about future price developments. At a previously...
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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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