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Measuring the capital shortfall of large U.S. banks
Jondeau, Eric; Khalilzadeh, Amir - 2018
We develop a methodology to measure the capital shortfall of commercial banks in a market downturn, which we call stressed expected loss (SEL). We simulate a market downturn as a negative shock on interest rate and credit market risk factors that reflect the banks' market-sensitive assets. We...
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Derivatives Holdings and Systemic Risk in the U.S. Banking Sector
Rodriguez-Moreno, Maria - 2013
This paper studies the impact of the banks' portfolio holdings of financial derivatives on the banks' individual …, outperforms the others. Using this measure we find that the banks' holdings of foreign exchange and credit derivatives increase … the banks contributions to systemic risk whereas holdings of interest rate derivatives decrease it. Nevertheless, the …
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Has "too big to fail" been solved? : a longitudinal analysis of major U.S. banks
Thosar, Satish; Schwandt, Bradley - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 12 (2019) 1/24, pp. 1-14
In the wake of the global financial crisis that erupted in 2008, there has been extensive commentary and regulatory focus on the 'Too Big to Fail' issue. In this paper, we survey the proposed solutions and regulatory initiatives that have been undertaken. We conduct a longitudinal analysis of...
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Contagion effects of the Silicon Valley Bank run
Choi, Dong Beom; Goldsmith-Pinkham, Paul; Yorulmazer, Tanju - 2023
This paper analyzes the contagion effects associated with the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and identifies bank-specific vulnerabilities contributing to the subsequent declines in banks' stock returns. We find that uninsured deposits, unrealized losses in held-to-maturity securities, bank...
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Systemic risk and the refinancing ratchet effect
Khandani, Amir E.; Lo, Andrew W.; Merton, Robert C. - 2009 - This draft: September 13, 2009
The confluence of three trends in the U.S. residential housing market - rising home prices, declining interest rates, and near-frictionless refinancing opportunities - led to vastly increased systemic risk in the financial system. Individually, each of these trends is benign, but when they occur...
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A false sense of security : why U.S. banks diversify and does it help?
Gandhi, Priyank; Kiefer, Patrick Christian; Plazzi, Alberto - 2016
U.S. banks have increasingly diversified into activities traditionally considered as non-core for the banking sector. This paper investigates whether diversification influences banks' investment (credit) policy and profitability. Diversified banks appear to benefit from “coinsurance,” supply...
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Bank bonds : size, systemic relevance and the sovereign
Zaghini, Andrea - 2014
We analyze the risk premium on bank bonds at origination with a special focus on the role of implicit and explicit public guarantees and the systemic relevance of the issuing institutions. By looking at the asset swap spread on 5,500 bonds, we find that explicit guarantees and sovereign...
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Detecting and Explaining Systemic Risks of US Mortgage Banks - Evidence from the Subprime Crisis
Weiss, Gregor N. F. - 2010
In recent history, financial markets worldwide experienced severe turmoil due to the subprime crisis originating from the practice of US mortgage banks to securitise loans given especially to subprime borrowers. In the same crisis, several distressed banks were bailed out by states with even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146683
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Contagion effects of the Silicon Valley Bank run
Choi, Dong Beom; Goldsmith-Pinkham, Paul; Yorulmazer, Tanju - 2023
This paper analyzes the contagion effects associated with the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and identifies bank-specific vulnerabilities contributing to the subsequent declines in banks' stock returns. We find that uninsured deposits, unrealized losses in held-to-maturity securities, bank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014342118
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Measuring Option Implied Degree of Distress in the US Financial Sector Using the Entropy Principle
Matros, Philipp; Vilsmeier, Johannes - 2012
We estimate time series of option implied Probabilities of Default (PoDs) for 19 major US financial institutions from 2002 to 2012. These PoDs are estimated as mass points of entropy based risk neutral densities and subsequently corrected for maturity dependence. The ob- tained time series are...
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