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We develop a model of bank risk-taking with strategic sovereign default risk. Domestic banks invest in real projects and purchase government bonds. While an increase in bond purchases crowds out profitable investments, it improves the government's incentives to repay and therefore lowers its...
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I develop a framework of the buildup and outbreak of financial crises in an asymmetric information setting. In equilibrium, two distinct economic states arise endogenously: "normal times", periods of modest investment, and "booms", periods of expansionary investment. Normal times occur when the...
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Regulators aiming to ward off the next financial market failure need to implement rules to smooth the boom-bust cycle in margin requirements and haircuts used in securities financing and derivative transactions, which seriously exacerbated the last financial crisis. In this study, the author...
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We provide an overview of the rapidly evolving literature on shadow credit intermediation. The shadow banking system consists of a web of specialized financial institutions that conduct credit, maturity, and liquidity transformation without direct, explicit access to public backstops. The lack...
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In this paper, we investigate how the introduction of complex, model-based capital regulation affected credit risk of … financial institutions. Model-based regulation was meant to enhance the stability of the financial sector by making capital … introduce the model-based approach. Counter to the stated objectives, the introduction of complex regulation adversely affected …
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In this paper, we investigate how the introduction of complex, model-based capital regulation affected credit risk of … financial institutions. Model-based regulation was meant to enhance the stability of the financial sector by making capital … introduce the model-based approach. Counter to the stated objectives, the introduction of complex regulation adversely affected …
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on the extent of dilution after conversion. We integrate the analysis in a game-theoretic optimal capital regulation …
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