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I study the relation between shadow banking and financial stability in an economy in which banks are susceptible to self-fulfilling runs and in which government-backed deposit insurance is limited. Shadow banks issue only uninsured deposits while commercial banks issue both insured and uninsured...
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Rather than taking on more risk, US insurers hit hard by the crisis pulled back from risk taking, relative to insurers hit less hard by the crisis. Capital requirements alone do not explain this risk reduction: insurers hit hard reduced risk within assets with identical regulatory treatment....
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, in the context of the eurozone periphery, the increase in domestic government bond holdings, the reduction of bank credit …
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improving the resiliency of the regulated banking sector, create room for bank disintermediation and do not unambiguously limit …
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endogenous bank fragility and slow recovery from crises. When banks' investment decisions are not contractible, depositors form … expectations about bank risk-taking and demand a return on deposits according to their risk. This creates strategic … of bank net worth, leading to a persistent drop in investment and output. I bring the model to bear on the European …
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bank resolution. A European competence is necessary to ensure that cross-border concerns are given appropriate weight in …
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particular, we show that being a weakly capitalized bank is not related to higher holdings of domestic sovereign debt. While a … strong link is present between central bank liquidity support and sovereign holdings, opportunistic strategies or reach … advantage of their higher risk-bearing capacity to gain exposure (via central bank liquidity) to the set of riskier sovereign …
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This paper presents a new database for financial crises in European countries, which serves as an important step towards establishing a common ground for macroprudential oversight and policymaking in the EU. The database focuses on providing precise chronological definitions of crisis periods to...
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This paper presents a new database for financial crises in European countries, which serves as an important step towards establishing a common ground for macroprudential oversight and policymaking in the EU. The database focuses on providing precise chronological definitions of crisis periods to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698592
We estimate a multivariate early-warning model to assess the usefulness of private credit and other macro-financial variables in predicting banking sector vulnerabilities. Using data for 23 European countries, we find that global variables and in particular global credit growth are strong...
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