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Keister, Todd - 2012

Should policy makers be prevented from bailing out investors in the event of a crisis? I study this question in a model of financial intermediation with limited commitment. When a crisis occurs, the efficient policy response is to use public resources to augment the private consumption of those...

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Banking Fragility and Financial Crises

Ciuriak, Dan - 2018

The history of banking crises grows richer with each passing decade, indeed with each passing year. Theories abound: the inherent instability of fractional reserve systems, systemic shocks that overwhelm risk management defenses, myopic optimism, a failure to regulate enough, too much regulation...

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A National Wealth Approach to Banking Crises and Financial Stability

Frecaut, Olivier - 2016

The paper explores a different, supplementary way to assess and manage a particular type of banking crises, those arising from a rise of nonperforming loans to the corporate sector. It relies on a 'national wealth approach,' focusing on the distribution of net wealth among economic sectors and...

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Why Prudential Regulation Will Fail to Prevent Financial Crises : A Legal Approach

Prates, Marcelo - 2014

In this paper, I suggest that the regulation of the financial system, especially if the aim is to prevent financial crises, should be focused on dealing with the consequences of the crises, not on trying to avoid their causes, although it may seem counterintuitive at first sight. Contrary to the...

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Bailouts and Financial Fragility

Keister, Todd - 2022

Should policy makers be prevented from bailing out investors in the event of a crisis? I study this question in a model of financial intermediation with limited commitment. When a crisis occurs, the policy maker will respond with fiscal transfers that partially cover intermediaries' losses. The...

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The credit quality channel : modeling contagion in the interbank market

Fink, Kilian; Krüger, Ulrich; Meller, Barbara; Wong, … - 2015

We propose an algorithm to model contagion in the interbank market via what we term the credit quality channel. In … existing models on contagion via interbank credit, external shocks to banks often spread to other banks only in case of a … questions. For that purpose, we propose to measure the potential cost of contagion of a given shock scenario by the aggregated …

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How excessive is banks' maturity transformation?

Segura, Anatoli; Suárez, Javier - 2016

We quantify the gains from regulating maturity transformation in a model of banks which finance long-term assets with non-tradable debt. Banks choose the amount and maturity of their debt trading off investors' preference for short maturities with the risk of systemic crises. Pecuniary...

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Capturing information contagion in a stress-testing framework

Anand, Kartik; Gauthier, Céline; Gai, Prasanna; … - 2016

We develop an operational model of information contagion and show how it may be integrated into a mainstream, top … quantify this contagion channel in the context of the Bank of Canada's model of the Canadian banking system and a stress …

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Insecure debt

Perotti, Enrico C.; Matta, Rafael - 2015 - This Draft: March 16, 2015

Does demand for safety create instability ? Secured (repo) funding can be made so safe that it never runs, but shifts risk to unsecured creditors. We show that this triggers more frequent runs by unsecured creditors, even in the absence of fundamental risk. This effect is separate from the...

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Strategic complementarity, fragility, and regulation

Vives, Xavier - 2011 - Rev. May 2011

The paper analyzes a very stylized model of crises and demonstrates how the degree of strategic complementarity in the actions of investors is a critical determinant of fragility. It is shown how the balance sheet composition of a financial intermediary, parameters of the information structure...

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