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Today we live in a post-truth and highly digitalized era characterized by a flow of (mis-) information around the world. Identifying the impact of this information on stock markets and forecasting stock returns and volatilities has become a much more difficult task, perhaps almost impossible....
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Do financial crises radicalize voters? We study Germany's 1931 banking crisis, collecting new data on bank branches and firm-bank connections. Exploiting cross-sectional variation in precrisis exposure to the bank at the center of the crisis, we show that Nazi votes surged in locations more...
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This study attempts to develop a financial vulnerability indicator serving as a composite indicator for the state of financial vulnerability. The indicator was constructed from 10 variables of macroeconomic, financial and property market by extracting a common vulnerability component through the...
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This paper assesses several early warning (EWS) models of financial crises to propose a model that can predict the incidence of a currency crisis in developing countries. For this purpose, we employ the equal weighting (EW) and dynamic model averaging (DMA) approaches to combine forecast from...
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unanticipated insolvency of one bank. Banks that cannot rule out an indirect hit react by selling assets and hoarding liquidity …. While this potentially lowers illiquidity risks, it depresses market liquidity and prices. This leads to a negative … externality by which sales to acquire liquidity simultaneously lead to lower global sale proceeds and thus to a greater number of …
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In this paper we analyze financial crises, and the interactions of macroprudential policy and credit. Financial crises are recurrent systemic phenomena, often-triggering deep and long-lasting recessions with large reductions in aggregate welfare, output and employment. Importantly for policy,...
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This paper investigates the spread of what started as a crisis at the core of the global financial system to emerging economies. While emerging economies had exhibited some resilience through the early stages of the financial turmoil that began in the summer of 2007, they have been hit hard...
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Reputation concerns in credit markets restrain borrowers' temptations to take excessive risk. The strength of these concerns depends on the behavior of other borrowers, rendering the reputational discipline fragile and subject to breakdowns without obvious changes in economic fundamentals....
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Bevor die Europäische Zentralbank die oberste Bankenaufsicht innerhalb der Bankenunion im November 2014 übernimmt, wird sie die 128 größten und systemrelevanten Banken des Euroraums einer umfassenden Bilanzprüfung unterziehen. Um die Konsolidierung im Bankensektor und den Aufbau der...
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Die Banken im Euroraum befinden sich immer noch in einem Prozess der Bilanzbereinigung. Auch wenn sich die Kreditvergabe aktuell wieder leicht positiv entwickelt, vergaben viele Banken trotz der Fortschritte bei der Rekapitalisierung lange Zeit nur zögerlich Kredite. Gleichzeitig bauten sie...
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