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We present a network model of the interbank market in which optimizing risk averse banks lend to each other and invest in non-liquid assets. Market clearing takes place through a tâtonnement process which yields the equilibrium price, while traded quantities are determined by means of a...
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), our approach estimates bank asset holdings at higher frequencies which allows us to derive precise estimates of (i …
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This paper studies the relation between bank herding and financial system stability. I develop a set of bank … relation between bank herding and systemic risk contribution. I find that for large banks, asset herding is associated with … between bank herding and systemic risk contribution …
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We analyze the emergence of systemic risk in a network model of interconnected bank balance sheets. The model … bank's individual contribution to systemic risk diverges from the optimal macroprudential capitalization of the banks from …
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This paper develops a framework to study the interaction between banking, price dynamics, and monetary policy. Deposit contracts are written in nominal terms: if prices unexpectedly fall, the real value of banks' existing obligations increases. Banks default, panics precipitate, economic...
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Banks and other financial institutions which were too-big-to-fail (TBTF) played a central role during the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2009. The present article lays out how misguided policies enabled banks to grow both in size as well as in complexity and therefore acquire TBTF status,...
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-over effects. Building on a simple model, this paper introduces a measure of the spill-over effects that a bank generates when it … defaults. The measure is based on an explicit criterion, the aggregate debt repayments, and is bank’s specific, affected by the … bank’s characteristics and links to other banks. Such measure can be useful to a regulator to determine in which banks cash …
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shock to bank capital at the macro level. The framework looks at how fire sales of common asset holdings can lead to …
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. Second, while higher bank capital requirements decrease default risk and funding costs, they make it also more profitable to …
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We show that systemic risk in the banking sector breeds macroeconomic uncertainty. We develop a model of a production economy with a banking sector where financial constraints of banks can lead to disastrous banking panics. We find that a higher probability of a banking panic increases...
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