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could eventually lead to banking crises. We explore this issue formally by assessing the performance of these debt … categories as early warning indicators (EWIs) for systemic banking crises. We find that they do contain useful information. In …
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This paper contributes to the literature on systemic risk by examining the network structure of bilateral exposures in the global banking system. The global interbank market constitutes a major part of the global banking system. The market has a hierarchical network structure, composed of the...
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This paper examines banking crises in a large sample of countries over a forty-year period. A multinomial modeling … policy makers continue to confront banking crises, leading to high economic and social costs, enhanced multinomial modeling …
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Historically, unusually strong increases in credit and asset prices have tended to precede banking crises. Could the …
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This paper presents a new dataset on the dynamics of non-performing loans (NPLs) during 88 banking crises since 1990 …. The data show similarities across crises during NPL build-ups but less so during NPL resolutions. We find a close … relationship between NPL problems-elevated and unresolved NPLs-and the severity of post-crisis recessions. A machine learning …
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Given the economy's complex behavior and sudden transitions as evidenced in the 2007-08 crisis, agent-based models are widely considered a promising alternative to current macroeconomic practice dominated by DSGE models. Their failure is commonly interpreted as a failure to incorporate...
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In this paper we propose a novel approach to obtain the predictive density of global GDP growth. It hinges upon a bottom-up probabilistic model that estimates and combines single countries' predictive GDP growth densities, taking into account cross-country interdependencies. Specifically,we...
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The United States has turned into an anarchic Hobbesian in part triggered by; weakening dollar's natural pull as the main reserve currency; China's massive foreign reserves; fast rise of the renminbi; the failure attempts to dismantle gold and its readiness to reclaim a monetary role at the...
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Libor is arguably the world's most important number with more than USD 350 trillion of loans and financial contracts referencing this rate. Libor benchmark interest rates are being replaced with alternative reference rates (ARRs). There is no guarantee Libor rates will continue to be quoted...
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The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (i.e. Basel I, II & III), the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank (i.e. Financial Sector Assessment Program), the World Trade Organization, the Bank for International Settlements, the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the...
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